Authors who don't use metaphors?

[briansommers]

I'm looking for authors who don't try to write using metaphors or flowery language.

Straight to the point writing.

Hemingway I think would fall in this catagory.

Anyone else?

 

[JeffD]

There is a lot of metaphor in Hemingway. It is perhaps deeper because of his straight forward prose. But any google search yields many scholarly papers and essays discussing metaphor in Hemingway. I am not sure you can get away from it in any great writer.

 

[briansommers]

There is a lot of metaphor in Hemingway. It is perhaps deeper because of his straight forward prose. But any google search yields many scholarly papers and essays discussing metaphor in Hemingway. I am not sure you can get away from it in any great writer.

I don't mean in the deeper sense but the more immediate.
For example,

The rivers crossed over each other below like a sea of snakes slithering...

I know that is a terrible example.. but more direct in the writing.
I find that when authors use them it distracts me when I read. I like simple descriptions etc.

 

[JeffD]

I don't mean in the deeper sense but the more immediate.
For example,

The rivers crossed over each other below like a sea of snakes slithering...

I know that is a terrible example.. but more direct in the writing.
I find that when authors use them it distracts me when I read. I like simple descriptions etc.

I agree with you there. I much prefer direct prose, or else hide the simile in some tasteful unobtrusive way.

Or at least be very clever and good at it. I am thinking of Shakespeare or especially John Donne's conceits, which are very obvious but fun for how clever they are.

In general though, just tell me what you are going to tell me, and let me figure out what it is "like".

 

[Conscious Bob]

In general though, just tell me what you are going to tell me, and let me figure out what it is "like".

Each to their own I suppose, like you though I agree Hemingway is an incorrect choice for this thread.