I love laurie Lee. .. who else writes like that?
I love laurie Lee. .. who else writes like that?
I have only five books in my Good reads "lyrical" shelf: apart from Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning I have Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro and Moby Dick by Herman Melville. But I would not say any of those writers wrote quite like Laurie Lee.
Maybe Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson would be up your street, although I have not read it myself.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
I've read Lark Rise to Candleford - but Laurie Lee has a way of writing that no one else seems to match (for me). Thanks for suggestions though
You are right. No one writes quite like him. Lee's style is natural and effortless - and simple - it is his true style. Others may use the same techniques, but you can sense their creative effort, and often need effort to follow them.
You could try, Nabokov's Lolita - different subject matter- he describes different things - but similar feel.
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