I like Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck. Call me pleb or whatever

Cormac McCarthy if you haven't read his stuff already. Start with The Road, work your way up to Blood Meridian.

Flannery O'Connor

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>>8674108
Thanks brother.

>>8674108
>>8674130
Do not start with the Road, this is terrible advice. Start with Blood Meridian. You do not need to "work your way up."

Hardy. Somewhat similar to Steinbeck.

Dickens is somewhat similar to the authors you like.

>>8674178
I dont understand /lit/s obsession w working your way up. I agree blood meridian is the best place to start. >>8674100
I loved Lolita but some of his work has been so bad I couldn't get through it at all, like Pale Fire. One of the worst things I've ever tried to read.

>>8674100
>>8674108
seconding McCarthy. Also read Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

>>8674128
Seconding this. Check out her collected short stories.

I gotta say, this is a great thread.

>>8674100
You could maybe check out Richard Wright? He's commonly grouped with these three, and I think he offers a unique perspective.

Also, if you're wanting a playwright maybe Eugene O'Neil.

>>8674100
John Williams

>>8674108
>>8674178
Both of these are wrong. Start with Suttree. We have a "I'm too pleb for Blood Meridian" thread in its various iterations like every week.

>>8674178
>>8674214

Although I'd consider Blood Meridian an essential masterpiece I would still say that it's a difficult read. I'd consider The Road to be McCarthy's most accessible work, hence my advising him to work his way up.

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>>8674423
The guys reading Faulkner, he's not gonna find BM difficult ya tards

>>8674423
Even if you did need to work your way up to it you recommend you read his worst book first. He guy reads Faulkner, does he really needs to be patronised? He can read whatever McCarthy he wants.

>>8674100
Borges.

Not because he's like what you like, but because he is not.

If you've already read him, Cervantes.

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>>8674100
Zhu Ziqing's My Father's Back.

>>8674100
Carver. Hempel. Salter. DeLillo. Salinger.

>>8674660
Seconding Raymond Carver I think he's up OPs alley. Also whats delilo like? Im really intrigued but i wanna hear some perspectives.

>>8674423
Do you niggers seriously believe you need some kind of "skill" to read some pleb crap such as blood meridian? That shit is entry level lit such as Harry poker, not saying it's bad, just that it's easy.

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>>8674685
>harry poker

If that book existed, I'd fucking read it. The history of a magician who gets expelled from Hogwarts, so he starts cheating at the casino.