Books with GOAT Writing
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List books which have good writing. Forget character development or plot or any of that other stuff, just writing which feels good on the tongue, and then give a sample (i.e a quote) to prove your point.
I'll start:
The Things They Carried:
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
Just looking for some new books to read.
>inb4 my diary 2bh
Ulysses
Moby Dick
anything William Gaddis
>>8218506
The word you're looking for is prose, and that is not a good example of it.
>>8218514
This desu senpai
>>8218506
just read the classics in your language. there are famous exceptions of notable authors writing shit prose so avoid them I guess
>>8218529
I started Gaddis with Carpenter's Gothic and Agape Agape; both are masterpieces
