A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

[version]

Worst I've read's probably Michael Crichton.

 

[IdleRich]

Strangely (well slightly), I was toying with the idea of creating a "writers that write good prose" thread.

 

[IdleRich]

With Recognitions there are loads of different authorial voices... some of them are... hard going.

 

[line b]

Worst I've read's probably Michael Crichton.

cheap shot, but Ben Shapiros prose in True Allegiance is laughably bad

 

[beiser]

Life is about choices, you can move up in the world and spend time with well educated, ambitious go getters trading zings about Whole Foods salad bar or stay in the back of the class with the lads

the dream of northern california is of a place where the lads from the back of the class run the show, seize the institutions. of course elon musk has a billion dollars, of course he’s at a party listening to house music and taking drugs. how else could it be?

you lot should try it out, take over a couple quangos or something.

 

[luka]

Who writes the good prose?

Craner in the 2000s

 

[luka]

I like the opening of hearts of darkness. I like wild bodies by Wyndham Lewis.

 

[luka]

I like James Ellroy. Some Iain Sinclair.

 

[vimothy]

patrick leigh fermor

 

[IdleRich]

I like James Ellroy. Some Iain Sinclair.

Was gonna suggest Ellroy... in his own way at least. M John Harrison also at times, certainly he's certainly someone whose writing really stuck out to me, while at the same time I was not especially enjoying the books themselves.

 

[beiser]

wodehouse had good prose. no longer suited for our times, but good prose regardless.

 

[vimothy]

rimboud

 

[vimothy]

Henry Miller

 

[vimothy]

burroughs

 

[luka]

wodehouse had good prose. no longer suited for our times, but good prose regardless.

In these days everyone could write good prose

 

[luka]

Rimbaud was a poet. Miller wrote badly. Burroughs is a great writer but not so much as a prose stylist.

 

[IdleRich]

wodehouse had good prose. no longer suited for our times, but good prose regardless.

Yeah sure... Waugh and Saki too.

 

[version]

Knew Luka would say Ellroy.

 

[IdleRich]

Buroughs - like Ellroy - kindai created his own style and did it well. I'm not sue it's exactly good prose though. That's not the right word for it I mean.

 

[version]

I like Hunter Thompson's prose, although I tried to reread Kingdom of Fear recently and it was awful. Chalked it up to being very late Thompson though and assumed I'd still rate Hell's Angels, Vegas and Campaign Trail.