Which author was the first to really pull you in and why?
I'm not talking about the first story you liked, I mean the one that made you so hungry for more that you eventually ended up on /lit/
Pic related; A lot of his works are unnecessarily drawn out, but I happened to catch "The White Ship" by happy accident and was so caught up in the beautiful fantasticality of it all that I almost thought I had woken up from the story itself when I was done.
Letters on England by Voltaire :^)
>>7608000
depends
> novels
Mishima: Confessions of a Mask. Got it square-on with the conflict of one's disgust when faced with being a fag. I'd know too. Also well written.
> poetry
let's not kid ourselves. Everyone's answer is Yeats/Eliot/Shakespeare
>>7608048
> poetry
Nelligan tbqh.
Nabokov, for prose. Coleridge for poetry. The first still stands while the latter has faded.
dan brown. art, history, and conspiracy theories all rolled into one, it was everything the middle school version of myself could have asked for. after reading through a handful of his novels i got tired of how formulaic they were and moved on, but he's what initiated my interest in literature.
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Dumas. I was in jail, and I was alone. When I came away from it, my understanding of the depth of literature changed forever.
>>7608048
Confessions of a mask made me finally realize how not gay I was.
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The trial of Kafka.
