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Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:29:40 2019 No.12352124 [Reply] [Original]

Any other books from this century worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:32:27 2019 No.12352144 Taleb

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:42:56 2019 No.12352223 >>12352124 Sam Harris

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:43:32 2019 No.12352226 >>12352124 The Road

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:44:50 2019 No.12352234 >>12352124 Replace Littel by Krasznahorkai

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:45:12 2019 No.12352237 Jorgan F penison

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:45:32 2019 No.12352240 File: 33 KB, 324x500, 46DBB465-CB53-4273-A394-B169C68F5E67.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12352124 Ignore the Junot Diaz endorsement, it’s good

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:46:07 2019 No.12352248 >>12352234 which Krasznahorkai book in particular?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:46:21 2019 No.12352253 Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:46:44 2019 No.12352257 >>12352124 The best contemporary writer, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, is missing from that list.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:47:25 2019 No.12352261 >>12352234 >>12352257 He hasn’t written anything good this century

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:47:30 2019 No.12352262 >>12352240 that's the story in which Arrival is based on, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:47:46 2019 No.12352265 >>12352124 Eugenides, Virgin Suicides

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:48:28 2019 No.12352273 >>12352124 Gilead by Maryanne Robinson (I believe?) is also pretty kino

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:49:20 2019 No.12352279 >>12352124 If I was choosing a Pynchon book from the 21st century, I would pick Against the Day, not Bleeding Edge, and if you want to cheat a little, Mason & Dixon from ‘97 is my favorite Pynchon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:49:25 2019 No.12352281 >>12352265 this

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:50:57 2019 No.12352294 mario bellatin

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:51:23 2019 No.12352301 >>12352261 You didn’t like The World Goes On?>>12352261

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:51:50 2019 No.12352303 >>12352273 *Marilynn Robinson actually.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:54:36 2019 No.12352325 interesting list. saved.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:56:14 2019 No.12352341 >>12352261 2008 : Seiobo járt odalent (Seiobo there below)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:57:27 2019 No.12352350 >>12352301 >>12352341 Both far too self indulgent and boring. I miss his old style

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 19:58:13 2019 No.12352358 >>12352350 which are his best books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 20:00:24 2019 No.12352376 >>12352358 Not him but imho, Melancholy of resistance

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 20:02:59 2019 No.12352390 >>12352376 I agree

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 20:04:23 2019 No.12352401 >>12352124 James Salter’s Last Night is a wonderful short story collection, his best novel is Light Years though, published in the ‘70s

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 20:14:11 2019 No.12352477 >>12352124 The Foundation for Exploration

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 20:29:36 2019 No.12352587 File: 38 KB, 640x529, XMbcYh9k-H9WgrTf4pIGpf1SYGaDgVRpqNky-x5hM5c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12352124 >he fell for the Ian McEwan meme

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 22:05:14 2019 No.12353212 >>12352124 The Past by Alan Pauls

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 22:15:21 2019 No.12353283 >>12352240 Seconded.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:02:12 2019 No.12353532 >>12352124 Cloud Atlas and Atonement are shit lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:04:16 2019 No.12353542 >>12353532 >lmao Are you a nigger? Only niggers unironically use that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:07:39 2019 No.12353559 >>12353542 you mad lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:09:28 2019 No.12353572 >>12353559 >ebonics Yes, you are. Opinion discarded.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:15:03 2019 No.12353596 >>12352124 Harry potter is the most important book of the xxi century so far, but lit is too assblasted to admit it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:15:57 2019 No.12353603 >>12353596 Important how? And which one, Deathly Hollows?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:31:36 2019 No.12353698 >>12352124 The Pale King The Corrections

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 00:26:20 2019 No.12354028 >>12352124 What about 2010's /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 00:37:50 2019 No.12354069 >>12354028 What do you mean?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 00:39:13 2019 No.12354076 >>12354069 Books written this decade? Not just this century.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 00:40:43 2019 No.12354079 File: 569 KB, 688x438, Screen Shot 2019-01-06 at 11.53.19 am.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >DFW

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 00:44:28 2019 No.12354095 >>12354079 cringe

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 01:11:49 2019 No.12354210 >>12352124 Gilbert Sorrentino - The Abyss of Human Illusion Bruce Wagner - Dead Stars

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 01:17:53 2019 No.12354231 >>12354076 Bleeding Edge, The Prague Cemetery, Sudden Death, Nemesis, Submission, Zero K, and Lincoln in the Bardo are from the 2010s.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 01:20:23 2019 No.12354237 Hahaha forreal? If you read Karl Knausgard you should straight up chop off your cock, throw it in a blender and chug it down

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 01:21:41 2019 No.12354244 >>12354028 The Vorrh.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 01:29:18 2019 No.12354278 >>12354237 Thats a very Scandinavian feeling, are you from there?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 02:19:09 2019 No.12354434 >>12352124 >bleeding edge yikes!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 03:07:33 2019 No.12354580 >>12354231 Kek all tthose names sound like Megadeth songs

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 03:25:48 2019 No.12354628 File: 19 KB, 325x499, dark road.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12352124

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 03:29:45 2019 No.12354640 >>12354079 Go back to your PewDiePie videos

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 03:33:52 2019 No.12354650 >>12354237 Nope, Karl Ove is based

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 03:54:46 2019 No.12354714 >>12353596 Harry Potter started in the 90s, idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 04:01:20 2019 No.12354729 >>12353572 He is right about those books. And "lmao" is not ebonics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 06:01:18 2019 No.12355032 File: 361 KB, 507x774, C7D3B036-8392-488B-8622-22F290E7B4F3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12352124

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 08:30:28 2019 No.12355557 >>12355032 Better than Europe central?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 08:36:38 2019 No.12355589 >>12354729 Why don't you suck him off already and stfu?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 11:08:28 2019 No.12356417 >>12355557 Haven’t read it so don’t know but based on reviews and awards won I guess Europe Central is better. For some reason I thought it came out last century but it’s from 2005. Regardless, Yhe Dying Grass is outstanding

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 6 11:13:24 2019 No.12356447 >>12356417 Will check it out, thanks.