>>25114754
elmore leonard

>>25114754
The authors that got me into reading were Brett Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski and John Fowles.

PKD is actually a very sophisticated author but only in respect to VALIS and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. His sci fi is not worth the time of a serious reader

>>25114759
It's insane how he wrote literally every movie ever made

dostoyevsky

Corncob McCarthy

>>25114754
Read Tom Clancy. He's kind of like Dan Brown if Dan Brown were obsessed with military logistics and hardware instead of religious conspiracy theories and the Illuminati. You'll tear through him and it will get you into the swing of reading long books.

vonnegut, heinlein, steinbeck, crichton, zola, stendhal, d.h. lawrence, honestly, throw a dart in a library and you're liable to pierce a midwit.

Most postmodernists basically.

Heinlein

>>25114754
Toni Morrison Beloved

>>25115359
black history month is over go back to your containment thread

>>25115377
Oh lord, thank you for the morning gratitude. Today I will chuckle whenever I remember the Racist Coward who is perhaps afraid of the Jigaboo hiding underneath his "Shift key". Have a great day, Mr. Racist.

Zweig
Bellow
Lispector
Franzen
Knausgaard
Updike
Cheever
Lish
Pamuk
Carver
Murnane
Lerner
Auster
Roth (Philip)

Does Heller fall into this category?

Vonnegut is a good one

>>25114754
>PKD
>middlebrow
Them's fighting words.

Deep Vellum’s entire catalogue

Pynchon is my personal favorite. One of the few authors whose entire œuvre I’ve read.

>>25115459
Would you consider Pynchon middlebrow yeah? I never did think to categorise him that way. I never really thought to categorise him at all.

Surely Pynchon is too hard to read to be considered midbrow (maybe disregarding some of this final books)
If you don’t consider him highbrow, you gotta consider him a hack writing endless drivel high on weed
Midbrow is stuff that’s accessible to everyone, but still hits surprisingly well on occasion even if you’re the most cultured man around
Catcher in the Rye is another great midbrow entry

>>25115404
Where is cartarescu

>>25115459
>One of the few authors whose entire œuvre I’ve read.
Even Slow Learner?

>>25115508
He’s not middlebrow nor highbrow. Guess that makes him a stoner hack.
Oh speaking of Stoner! OP, Williams’ Stoner

>>25114762
>His sci fi is not worth the time of a serious reader
Why are /lit/fags so pompous? Get over yourself bro. hes got a couple of duds but hes been consistently great, interesting and more fun than a majority of his contemporaries in my experience. His storytelling has a certain mystique that I find totally engrossing and fascinating

>>25114762
>Brett Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski and John Fowles
>a serious reader
You have dogshit taste in literature

>>25115702
Sci fi and fantasy are for children and people who don't grow up. Get a grip for fucks sake
>>25115706
I said they got me into reading. This was when I was 15. How about you read my post properly next time you gormless retard?

>>25115754
You have no opinions on literature worth reading. The only positive thing you could contribute to this board is to stop posting and just lurk.

>>25115771
I'm gonna keep posting and there's nothing you can do about it

>>25114762
>His sci fi is not worth the time of a serious reader
lol (at you, not with you)

>>25115754
>when I was 15
So last year?

>>25114846
>heinlein
It’s a shame because he has some of the best book titles
>Stranger in a Strange Land
>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

>>25115822
I'm probably older than you faggot. At least I hope so because if you are walking around as an adult with any responsiblity then lives are in danger

>writes like an underage fag
>whinges like an underage fag
Peculiar indeed

try these, quite like them:
>pynchon
>bellow
>updike
>dfw
>kerouac
>salinger

>>25114754
larry mcmurtry

>>25115882
>whinges
Get off my fucking board britbong

>>25114754
The first writers I enjoyed around 2019 or so when I was around 20 were Sailor who fell from grace w the sea, lectures from Zizek on YouTube and the movie version of Apology from Socrates by Rossellini. Those were my first foray into lit basically.

>>25116030
DFW often feels like a middlebrow author trying his hardest to be highbrow.

>>25116055
and the sad part is that there are already writers way better at doing that like ligotti or delilo

Orwell
Hemingway
Fitzgerald

>>25114754
idk, but I like Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep was one of my all time favorites years ago. I remember I read it in one sitting.

>>25115508
Pynchon = Hack 100%

>>25115754
>Sci fi and fantasy are for children and people who don't grow up. Get a grip for fucks sake
I mostly read classics and what you would consider "real" literature but I also periodically enjoy reading pulp and genreslop to blow off steam between my more usually demanding reading material. I think people like you who take yourselves way too seriously are pretentious narrow-minded readers with boring masturbatory taste thats totally interchangeable with any number know it all pseuds that exist in the community and its fascinating you feel compelled to offer your shallow thoughts on an author and a genre you believe to be beneath you when you lack the personal expertise to add anything meaningful to the conversation. PKD is one of the GOATs (not that you could begin to understand) and you should apologize immediately for your indiscretion and general ignorance on subjects you dont understand

>>25117690
Don't care lol

>>25115393
>Jigaboo
we don't use that word around here

>>25117753
How do they say it in your native polari?

>>25116675
(You) = Filtered 100%

>>25114762
You're a faggot. PKD is practically the only sci-fi writer who's actually worth anything.

If you really liked Bukowski, you wouldn't have such a retarded opinion.

>>25116406
Hemingway is not middlebrow.

>>25117930
What is he then?

>>25117955
An anti-Semitic and misogynistic hack

>>25117963
Pleonastic way to say based

>>25117963
Hate to tell you, he was pushed because of his degenerate content and the fact that he was a commie. His first short story about raping a woman was less about keeping whammin down and more about degrading U.S. culture.

>>25117983
That would be John Steinbeck, one of the most overrated writers, honestly

What do you know, multiples of this type were pushed.
https://short-stories.co/@ernesthemingway/up-in-michigan-1knv7q4el63e

>>25115516
Watch your bitch mouth!

>>25114754
Ray Bradbury.

Who’s the most middlebrow lowbrow writer? Or the most lowbrow middlebrow writer?