ITT: books that set the prose bar so high it makes you want to give up writing

ITT: books that set the prose bar so high it makes you want to give up writing.

> being this millennial

Anything by Malcolm Lowry, and Nabokov actually.

The scene where Lucette commits suicide after Van spurns her advances is so beautiful; and the quick interjection from older Van reading it to Ada for transcription (we're led to believe Van uses note cards, like Nabokov, for his works) made me guffaw.

Is this any good? Are any of Lowry's other works (I mean, other than UtV) just as good?

nabokov is very second-rate

explain

Nabokov is great, shut the fuck up cunt

Edgy lit hipster contrarian faggot, kill yourself

yes, he's the second best writer in the history of the language.

Go on then user, who's your first?

Judy Blume

my diary desu

You got me desu

Prose is a meme for autistic gay nerds.

dank bant

Definetely not in tte first eschelon. I read Lolita in Russian. Pretensious and boring piece of prose.

0/10.

Pic definitely related.

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Woolf.

I'm trying to figure out if I like Woolf more than Joyce.

John Williams. Obviously.