The Love of Literature ?

[vikramdave1]

Can people suggest any books in which the author uses vivid, brilliant descriptive prose ?

[Tock389]

Try the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - e.g "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

[Beth1989]

The Lord of the Flies. Studying it at school right now and some description used by Golding is amazing.

[mrs.pudding]

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

[Hermia]

I remember finding "Sexing the Cherry" by Jeanette Winterson very vivid and colourful.

[MikeMikeMike]

I know it sounds a bit harcore, but there's some amazing stuff in D.H. Lawrence. There's a short story called The Prussian Officer, which if you can get hold of it has some of the most powerful descriptions I've ever read.There are descriptions of a man's perceptions of his environment as he get's more and more dehydrated and starts to go nuts - great stuff!

Alternatively there's a novel called The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (who wrote the moomin books) about a little girl and her grandmother living on an island.

[ann_h]

I too thought of Garcia Marquez immediately. If 100 years is a bit heavy going try short stories in Leaf Storm. He has an uncanny ability to describe things and people by what they're not as well as what they are. Unforgettable.

[Litchick]

How about Shakespeare?  Or any of the classics, "The Odyssey," "The Divine Comedy," anything by Sophocles.....

Also, Angela's Ashes...Frank Mccourt...I read the book before seeing the picture and the way I visualised it was EXACTLY the way they put it on screen.  It was amazing!!

[sophie_1003]

Try Under Milkwood, think it's by Dylan Thomas, that's nothing but discription!