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Anonymous

7/3/2025, 6:01:22 PM No.24517470

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Who do you guys consider to have cool or flashy prose? Someone modern, different, a bit challenging, and clever, with a strong flair for metaphor? I'm trying to read something cool, but I can't even think of what cool prose looks like

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Anonymous

7/3/2025, 9:28:08 PM No.24518041

Pynchon

Anonymous

7/3/2025, 9:36:32 PM No.24518091

my_first_book-honor

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Anonymous

7/3/2025, 9:51:01 PM No.24518149

177831647861

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Anonymous

7/4/2025, 3:30:20 AM No.24519232

>>24517470 (OP)
Dandy was the last time toonami was worth watching. Baby.

Anonymous

7/4/2025, 3:32:37 AM No.24519238

>>24517470 (OP)
Pynchon, Gibson, Celine, Burroughs, Bukowski

Anonymous

7/4/2025, 3:33:21 AM No.24519241

>>24517470 (OP)
>cool or flashy prose? Someone modern, different, a bit challenging, and clever, with a strong flair for metaphor
Nabokov. I don't even like him but that's the first name that comes to mind

Anonymous

7/4/2025, 6:37:37 AM No.24519616

>>24517470 (OP)
The answers so far have been quit bad.

Szasz
Sean Kilpatrick
Jack Skelley
Ben Markus
Jon Fosse
Danielewski
Walser
Feneon
Ron Silliman
Ed Atkins
that should be enough for now