/lit/ - Literature

Finally got around to reading it, and I'm 100 pages in. Thank fuck there are only just under 200 pages left. Pleased at how sexual an older book is, but is this really what passes for entertainment? Does it get better?

I remember reading every single novel and short story of his last year. I didn't go back to him for ages, but I'm now rereading Young Hearts Crying, which I consider to be one of his best books, along with RR and TEP. There's too much dialogue, and his themes do tend to repeat, but he writes very well. As far as zeitgeist writers go, he's second only to Franzen. Hey, does this board still hate Jonathan Franzen for no reason, lolololol?

Richard Yates, Kazuo Ishirugo, Isabel Allende, Huraki Murakami, Margaret Atwood...others. I simply ran out of books by them, or get fed up rereading their books lots. I dunno.