Hi! I’m looking for books and authors which are '‘good with words’. What I mean is, I’m looking for stuff where they are good at painting a picture with words, the words and sentences flow really well, the choice of words is good, stuff like that. I think this is called ‘good prose’. I’m not sure though.
Thanks in advance. Happy Reading!
I read James Lee Burke novels for the pure pleasure of how he puts words together. I enjoy his good vs evil stories and flawed characters, but his words are what really draw me in.
David Zindell.
Ben Aaronovitch.
Thornton Wilder.
A it depressive sometimes but Ligotti has some amazing prose.
You might like Ray Bradbury.
Dorothy Dunnett
Christopher Hitchens
The Old Man and the Sea is a delightful book written in clear, clean language. Highly recommend it!
so we DO have recommendation threads then ? Cormac McCarthy, Stefan Zweig and Orhan Pamuk !
P.G. Wodehouse.
Another vote for Nabokov, and also for the only person who comes close for absolute mastery of the English language: P G Wodehouse.
100 Years of Solitude. I don’t read for language, but that is some memorable stuff.
E. L. Doctorow.
Raymond Chandler, Elizabeth Strout, Alice Monroe
What about F. Scott Fitzgerald? If your looking for classic works, I feel like his stuff is incredibly vivid.
If you like wordplay, cleverness, and great emotion try watching something like Hamlet or Romeo+Juliet and throw the closed captioning on. I wouldn’t suggest reading it unless you’re very comfortable with old modern English.