I really enjoyed stoner and the simplistic prose and it has been my favorite book for a while. But on the other hand I really love lolita and lotr style of poetic sounding prose and is the kind of style I like to write.
Examples from my own writing:
“The emptiness of exclusion looms like a shadow, constantly reminding me of my fragile place in the world.”
“Savory scents swirl in the air, nourishing both the tongue and the soul with every bite of culinary delight.”
“Grief whispers in the wind, a haunting melody of what once was and what will never be again.”
“She loved him with all her heart. She fought for him with all her might. She lost him to the shadows of his mind.” This ones a non poetic example.
I’d love to hear some of your favorite written sentences and preffered style while writing or what you enjoy reading most.
Lattimore’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Unsure if that counts. The beginning is an instant hook for me. I love muses. I love epic tales.
“Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions.”
I particularly love it when in antiquity, writers start going off on family trees. Somewhere in the following there’s a deeper meaning lost to time.
“There first I saw Tyro, gloriously descended, and she told me she was the daughter of stately Salmoneus, but said she was the wife of Kretheus, the son of Aiolos, and she was in love with a river, godlike Enipeus, by far the handsomest of all those rivers whose streams cross over”
Excerpts From The Odyssey of Homer Richmond Lattimore
Oh that’s nice. I struggle with that particular style of writing and get lost trying to figure it out and lose fluid reading ability.
With family trees Im just worried I’m gonna have to remember all this now lol.
I do love this shout out tho.