Which non fiction has the best prose?
Which non fiction has the best prose?
Dylan Morales
Levi Gonzalez
Henri-Frédéric Amiel. Blaise Pascal.
Angel Gomez
The Bible
Samuel Johnson
Gibbons decline and fall or the Roman Empire?
*non-fiction*
Blake Hughes
Behind the Bible, of course
Zachary Bell
based, I agree. Gibbon is sublime. Carlyle is a close second, but his prose is a bit too pretentious for my taste.
Alexander Jenkins
Thomas Browne (religio medici, urne burial, pseudodoxia epidemica) Robert Burton (anatomy of melancholy)
Boswell (life of Samuel Johnson)
Walton (the compleat angler)
Johnson (life of the poets)
James Sanchez
Edouard Musbodijk.
Kevin Gomez
the dude who compiled that esoteric romeanian stuff?
Gavin Turner
Yeah, that one. He also wrote The Three Tomes
Isaac Nelson
seconding these and Walter Pater's The Renaissance
Nathan Nelson
Hahahahahahaha
Aaron Sullivan
1. YOU MEAN «WHAT», NOT «WHICH».
2. YOU MEAN «NONFICTION», NOT «NON FICTION»; «NON» IS A PREFIX, NOT A WORD.
Austin Torres
Hows in cold blood?
Daniel Mitchell
Kill yourself.
Evan Jenkins
it's actually 'non-fiction'
Evan Wilson
THE DASH IS SUPERFLUOUS.
Dylan Flores
it's not, "non-" is a prefix, as you said.
Owen Sullivan
Don’t you mean pre-fix?
James Perry
Gentlemen, you are getting off topic about the stupidest thing
Robert Anderson
>gentlemen
That seems a bit presumptuous
Brody Gray
Shut up bitch
Eli Edwards
SPEAK, MEMORY
Michael Lee
Kill yourself, blue-pilled.
Benjamin Ward
no, the word is prefix, the "pre" part doesn't form it in any way.
Evan Morris
>defending tripfags
Elijah Torres
PREFIXES, AND SUFFIXES, ARE ADDED TO WORDS TO CONSTRUCT NEW WORDS; THE AFFIX SHOULD BE JOINED WITH THE WORD, NOT ADJOINED; AFFIXED, NOT ATTACHED; UNITED, NOT SPLICED.
THE DASH PERVERTS THE PREFIX, OR THE SUFFIX, INTO A MORPHOLOGICAL PARASITE.
AFFIXTURE SHOULD BE A SYNTHESIS, NOT A SYNCRESIS.
Luis Nelson
Thomas Browne is great. May I suggest for you in particular The Last Days of Byron and Shelley by Edward Trelawny? I think you would enjoy it.
Carter Myers
Have you considered contributing to the thread, you stupid fucking faggot?
Alexander Gomez
I HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT.
Aiden White
That looks great, thanks
Leo Brown
Solzhenitsyn is very readable; so is Herzen. I'm more of an empiricist than a historian, though, so my favorite nonfiction authors are Asimov, Feynman, Sagan, and Michael Shermer.
Ryan Cruz
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Xavier Richardson
>PREFIXES, AND SUFFIXES, ARE ADDED TO WORDS TO CONSTRUCT NEW WORDS; THE AFFIX SHOULD BE JOINED WITH THE WORD, NOT ADJOINED; AFFIXED, NOT ATTACHED; UNITED, NOT SPLICED
completely and utterly wrong.
Jack Brown
Walter Benjamin.
David Davis
AJP Taylor has fantastic prose
Oliver Reed
the peregrine
Asher Wright
As boring as he could be, Hume was one hell of a writer.
Anthony Evans
Leibniz. I've never read anyone talk about so many difficult things with such crystal clarity and precision.
Buffon is also up there. It is surprising how he can make me interested in horse intestines by sheer force of style.
Of course both in original French.
Isaac Price
Schopenhauer in German.
Jonathan Cooper
Are there any particular books or collections of letters by Leibniz that you would reccommend? I am willing to learn French.
Kevin Gutierrez
The Cybergypsies
Daniel Hall
George Orwell's nonfiction is great, he was a well respected journalist and I honestly think Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier are better than his fiction.
Carson Scott
nietzsche
Brandon King
based Rei triggering newfags and redditors.