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Out of curiosity, what are the top 10 best longform pieces you've ever read?

• cryoshon 11y ago
  I'll give you the top one: Politics and the English Language by Orwell. Reading this as a young man sent me down a wonderful road of critical thinking and skepticism and altered my life in a major way... no guarantee it'll do the same for you, though.
  • delish 11y ago
    Another long essay on the english language: Tense Present by David Foster Wallace. It touches rhetoric, conservatism vs liberalism, and offers advice w/r/t how to communicate. And it's laugh-out-loud funny. This is the PDF version. Because this is a magazine article, the PDF captures formatting detail that an epub version lacks: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-04-0070913.pdf http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0...
    • cryoshon 11y ago
      Hm, I can't stand DFW's writing style, but I'll check this out anyway since I admit he has fruitful thoughts on occasion.
  • visakanv 11y ago
    That's one of my favorites too! Good to know. :-)