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I made an updated version of the 2000s must read list. Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Tue Jul 12 15:19:45 2011 No.1921761 [Reply] [Original]

I dunno why, I just added to it a little, based on my reads over the last few months. It's not really the 'best' books of the 21st century, just ones I consider the best or ones I think have some special quality. I tried to keep the number of books per author down, since people complained before.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:22:45 2011 No.1921768 I'll say the same thing I said last time: You don't need 3 Orson Scott Card books on there and Ender in Exile sucked anyway.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:25:45 2011 No.1921772 Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald was published 2001 and it's awesome. Maybe Inherent Vice and Venus as a Boy too?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:25:45 2011 No.1921774 >>1921772 Although there's not much point making a list for a ten year period.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:27:45 2011 No.1921775 >Kafka on the shore >Well done, my friend

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:31:45 2011 No.1921786 Remove Orson Scott Card and Stephen King, replace with Inherent Vice and Jonathan Lethem,.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:33:45 2011 No.1921794 Do we really need three Orson Scott Card and three Margaret Atwood?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:33:45 2011 No.1921795 File: 26 KB, 339x500, Fallingman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pic related

Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Tue Jul 12 15:34:45 2011 No.1921797

>>1921774

Well, there is, because 21st century lit is IMO excellent. So many new ideas, different prose styles, and fresh voices.

>>1921775

Indeed, I'd say it's his second best book, after The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. That could get displaced by 1Q84, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:34:45 2011 No.1921799 Needs more Cloud Atlas.

Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:36:45 2011 No.1921801

Sunhawk, you're such a weird little shit but I like you because at least your high-functioning autistic ego trips are book-related and I love Oscar Wao too.

Was Inherent Vice better-received than Against the Day? Honest question; I avoided discussions of both because of SPOILERZ but then the closest I got to reading either one was buying AtD and then forgetting it at my ex-boyfriend's dead uncle's summer cottage

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Tue Jul 12 15:36:45 2011 No.1921803 >>1921799 I got bored with Cloud Atlas after about 40 pages. Nearly bought the much hyped Jacob de Zoet, until I realised it was the same author.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:36:45 2011 No.1921804 >>1921801 No. Inherent Vice is almost universally regarded as Pynchon's weakest work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:37:45 2011 No.1921806 >>1921799 Truth- also The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:38:45 2011 No.1921809 >>1921803 >dropping a 550 page book after 40 pages You should always give something that big 100 pages at least.

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Tue Jul 12 15:38:45 2011 No.1921810 >>1921801 How the hell should I know which was better recieved? You've got an internet connection, go check the sales figures. I've enjoyed ATD though, reading it on and off. I probably wouldn't enjoy Inherent Vice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:40:45 2011 No.1921815 How could anyone ever put The Year of the Flood on such a list Is it that you are a big fan of coincidences and one-dimensional characters or do you just really like third-rate science fiction

>>	sandwiches Tue Jul 12 15:44:45 2011 No.1921832 > no Sebald > no Pynchon > a million Orson Scott Card novels How many times are you going to make this chart and this thread? It's a little embarrassing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:48:45 2011 No.1921840 I haven't read any other Pynchon, but I loved hardboiled lit and the california hippie/surfing movement of the last century so it was fucking great for me. dat prose.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:49:45 2011 No.1921842 The troll's a tad bit obvious man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:49:45 2011 No.1921846 You forgot Wolf Hall mate.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:50:45 2011 No.1921849 Orson scott Card? Nigga you gay?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:51:45 2011 No.1921851 >>1921846 >implying this book is not completely over the head for 99% of /lit/ users

sandwiches Tue Jul 12 15:52:45 2011 No.1921854

lol I just realized Time Traveller's Wife is on this. I'm a girl and even I know better.

There's maybe 5 must-read 21st century novels

> Austerlitz
> minimum one Pynchon
> minimum one Saramago
> 2666
> Nox or Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson

The rest is not "must-read" by any means, it's all mediocre garbage that has gotten attention at Barnes & Noble.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:58:45 2011 No.1921874 I know I might appear like a troll but what about my pic here? It was released in March 2000 after all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 15:59:45 2011 No.1921880 File: 16 KB, 300x440, House-of-Leaves-Cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1921874 fuck forgot pic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 16:00:45 2011 No.1921884 >>1921874 it's already on OPs image

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 16:13:45 2011 No.1921903 >>1921761 Maybe a fourth of this is decent.

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