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Post by PromNightCarrie on Dec 9, 2017 19:17:41 GMT
Vladimir Nabokov stands out for his gorgeous, gorgeous prose, but I also really favor Evelyn Waugh's prose style.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 9, 2017 20:21:32 GMT
I tend to think of this more for specific works but definitely some authors like Nabokov and Waugh had a distinct and masterful prose style across books. My favorite book, A Fan's Notes, begins with the most riotous prose I've ever read and then keeps it up through the whole book like a miracle. The Great Gatsby is so deceptively great at how it uses a spare prose style that you almost don't realize how it slips into more ornate passages so easily that filmmakers to this day think they can just film it (they can't imo)......Poe and Hawthorne had that thing for me where you read some of their stories and you get excited by their twisting prose itself, that you have to go back and re-read it because your kind of lost in the majesty of it.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Dec 9, 2017 20:49:41 GMT
Some of my favourites : F. Scott Fitzgerald Emile Zola Cormac Mccarthy Edith Wharton Thomas Hardy Victor Hugo The Bronte sisters Henry James John Steinbeck Kazuo Ishiguro
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Dec 10, 2017 1:30:25 GMT
Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, and Toni Morrison to name a few that haven't been mentioned.
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Post by stephen on Dec 10, 2017 2:19:52 GMT
There's Cormac McCarthy, and there's everyone else.
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Post by Viced on Dec 10, 2017 4:30:37 GMT
Cormac McCarthy Larry McMurtry David Goodis
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Post by ibbi on Dec 10, 2017 9:52:13 GMT
Cormac for me. Gawjuss.
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Post by jimmalone on Dec 10, 2017 13:43:00 GMT
Charles Dickens Victor Hugo Javier Marias John Steinbeck Leo Tolstoy Jose Saramago
come to my mind.
Really can't agree about the often mentioned Cormac McCarthy on this point. I've only read one of his books (that I liked), but thought his style was good, but not extraordinary.
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 10, 2017 23:46:01 GMT
Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Truman Capote.
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Post by Joaquim on Dec 12, 2017 0:12:10 GMT
Ayn Rand
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Post by akittystang on Dec 12, 2017 16:59:15 GMT
Virginia Woolf
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Dec 12, 2017 17:53:27 GMT
Dan Brown.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 19:37:23 GMT
One doesn't read Fitzgerald's novels... One swoons in them.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Dec 13, 2017 21:44:10 GMT
Money often costs too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
So beautiful and so true, honey.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jan 14, 2018 0:28:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 18:02:03 GMT
Charlotte Brontë's Villette and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby are the finest prose that I've read.
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Post by cherry68 on Jan 19, 2018 19:10:01 GMT
P.G. Wodehouse
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jan 31, 2018 22:20:03 GMT
Oh honeys, I am thinking of writing my own book... you know, cashing in... merchandise.
I'm thinking of calling it Conversations with Myself
Isn't that cute?
...Or does it sound crazy?
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Post by clunkybob2 on Feb 2, 2018 17:50:15 GMT
mostfaalsnosy ChetMeighanIII
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Feb 14, 2018 5:34:08 GMT
There's Cormac McCarthy, and there's everyone else. Speaking of Cormac, his writing in the beginning pages of Suttree comes to mind. Was your mind as blown away by it as mine was? The images he paints with his words... brilliant.
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Post by stephen on Feb 14, 2018 5:59:15 GMT
There's Cormac McCarthy, and there's everyone else. Speaking of Cormac, his writing in the beginning pages of Suttree comes to mind. Was your mind as blown away by it as mine was? The images he paints with his words... brilliant. I can smell that fucking river just by reading that passage. And not just because I actually live on the banks of it, either. Blood Meridian is his best book, but Suttree has his best writing.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 14, 2018 21:36:14 GMT
Ray Bradbury's prose always connected with me on an emotional level, and his imagination was so vast and intricate. I suppose some people probably only see him as that guy who wrote weird sci-fi stories, but so many of his stories had such heart and feeling, and spoke to themes of isolation, love, and loneliness that resonated with me more than any other writings that carried those same feelings and ideas. He was such a huge part of my adolescence.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 0:40:37 GMT
Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, and Toni Morrison to name a few that haven't been mentioned. Interesting you mention Wallace here. He's one of my favorite authors but I'm not sure I'd describe his prose as "beautiful". I guess it is in sort of a rambling, long-winded way - not that I'm saying this in a bad way, but yeah. He certainly has written some beautiful sentences, but in the end that's not the word that would come to mind.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on May 12, 2018 1:07:31 GMT
Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, and Toni Morrison to name a few that haven't been mentioned. Interesting you mention Wallace here. He's pretty easily my favorite author but I'm not sure I'd describe his prose as "beautiful". I guess it is in sort of a rambling, long-winded way - not that I'm saying this in a bad way, but yeah. He certainly has written some beautiful sentences, but in the end that's not the word that would come to mind. Not only do I like Wallace's prose for the rambling, long-winded nature of them you described but also his ability to really draw in empathy for his characters through prose in unique and unconventional ways, something I'm really big on as evidenced by my mentions of Dickens and Morrison alongside him. Probably the best example of this trait of his would be in his short story "The Depressed Person," which is probably the most accurate, thorough, and frankly devastating depiction of depression (hell, maybe of any mental illness) that I have ever read.
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 13, 2019 8:32:57 GMT
So after reading the first two books of "A la recherche du temps perdu" I have to say that Marcel Proust is right at the top of this list.
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