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    Wink a book with a voice

    which is according to you, imagining that books do a voice, the LOUDEST book/story you have read?

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    "Loud" writing, to me, would be writing that is full of diatribe, bias, prejudice. If I were to find a book's voice to be loud I would also find it to be unreadable. One example I can think of is a novel I picked up on a whim about some kind of special forces/military character written in the first person. The intended audience was obviously people who already bought into a similar mentality: the world is a dangerous dog-eat-dog place full of booby traps and ambushes and it's survival of the fittest. I abandoned the book after one chapter or so. I'd say it's about the loudest fiction I've encountered.

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    The "loudest" book, in my opinion, has to be William S. Burroughs' "Nova Express."
    I can think of a few beat generation novels that keep a frenzied, almost maniacal, pace, but "Nova" is insanely fast and "loud."
    Pound a few Red Bulls and read it quickly, and see if your eyes don't light up like a blowtorch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bIGwIRE View Post
    The "loudest" book, in my opinion, has to be William S. Burroughs' "Nova Express."
    I can think of a few beat generation novels that keep a frenzied, almost maniacal, pace, but "Nova" is insanely fast and "loud."
    Pound a few Red Bulls and read it quickly, and see if your eyes don't light up like a blowtorch.
    lOl glad I don't drink red bull besides since when a bull was red haha
    oops and I have never heard of ''Nove Express'' hehe

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    I always thought Kafka was pretty loud when he wrote books in first person.
    “Why did god create a dual universe?
    So he might say
    ‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
    And it might be heard.”

    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    lOl glad I don't drink red bull besides since when a bull was red haha
    oops and I have never heard of ''Nove Express'' hehe
    Nova is pure madness. I can't say it was enjoyable, but it was definitely unique. Burroughs was such a despicable person in real life that I can't help but to love him. If you ever pick it up you will understand why I say an energy drink or two would put you in the right frame of mind.

    To The Truth, yeah I thought of Kafka, too.

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