>Spent a month reading Faulkner, McCarthy, and The Elements

>>8324772
>Yeand and and and and and andCarthy
>"strong" or "succinct"
Get fucked, corncobber.

Try any Hemmingway.

Look up minimalist writers. Raymond Carver is a good one, I'd recommend Fires for a good selection of his work.

Carver

Stephen King

Hesse

For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Warn
Congratulations, if you've read that, you've officially read the most strong and succinct prose novel ever. You can now stop reading and stop posting on this board forever

I love Faulkner as much as the next - his prose is many things, and efficient is not one of them.

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>>8325242

>managing to fuck up a six-word story

>>8324772
Donald Barthelme's flash fiction would probably appeal to you, as would his brother's writings, which are also very good. There's also Beckett, though there are some problems with describing him as a minimalist. If brevity and precision are really what you are looking for, you might as well get into poetry, namely Pound's, since much of it adhered to the rules of imagism and, later, vorticism--movements founded upon the idea that less--as little as possible, actually--is more.

Kafka

>>8325195
Yes
>>8325242
No

Steinbeck