Which author was the first to really pull you in and why? I'm

Letters on England by Voltaire :^)

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depends

> novels

Mishima: Confessions of a Mask. Got it square-on with the conflict of one's disgust when faced with being a fag. I'd know too. Also well written.

> poetry

let's not kid ourselves. Everyone's answer is Yeats/Eliot/Shakespeare

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> poetry
Nelligan tbqh.

Nabokov, for prose. Coleridge for poetry. The first still stands while the latter has faded.

dan brown. art, history, and conspiracy theories all rolled into one, it was everything the middle school version of myself could have asked for. after reading through a handful of his novels i got tired of how formulaic they were and moved on, but he's what initiated my interest in literature.

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Dumas. I was in jail, and I was alone. When I came away from it, my understanding of the depth of literature changed forever.

>>7608048
Confessions of a mask made me finally realize how not gay I was.

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The trial of Kafka.