/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1132025]

what's up il/lit/erates?

not sure if anyone uses this board anymore.. but I was hoping someone could recommend me some good contemporaneity fiction (like stuff that's come out in the past 5 years or so). I've been reading a lot of classics lately and I need a nice change. I'm not looking for some mass-market paperbacks but rather some god-tier modern literature.

What does /lit/ recommend?

[Anonymous No.1132033]

Bolano's 2666. This Franzen dude is all the rage lately, you might want to check out Freedom. Also Inherent Vice, which is quite underrated.

[Anonymous No.1132036]

>>1132025
try to read something more relaxing.. i sometimes read historical novels (the robert harris type) and ive been reading stieg larssons trilogy... literally it isnt worth shit, but its a page turner, it really takes you head off your feet and you appreciate more the good stuff when you read it. literally i find most writers of the last 20 years ive read rather unsatisfying.... i think bolano is a pretentious fuck. i did not hated some of pynchons work, although its not great wither

[Anonymous No.1132045]

>>1132036
>doesn't own a shift key
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>literally
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>you head off your feet
>you appreciate more the good stuff
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>i didnot hated
>its not great wither

[Anonymous No.1132053]

>>1132045
u mad? i have a hangover and english isnt even my first language, so i cant be bothered to get into a grammar and spelling debate

[Anonymous No.1132056]

>>1132053

You can't even approximate writing for shit, you read crappy Swedish crime pulp, and you talk shit about Bolano? Suck a bag of dicks dude.

[Anonymous No.1132060]

do you want fiction or nonfiction? Stephen Hawking just came out with a new book, about physics if you're into that.

[Anonymous No.1132064]

>>1132033

pretty much this. also, i know someone will recommend infinite jest, which was written 14 years ago. i don't know too much about new literary fiction, but i do know that there have been a lot of new translations of great works originally in spanish. new directions has been publishing a lot of them. you might also want to check out tom mccarthy.

[Anonymous No.1132065]

>>1132056
thats not the only thing i read. and yes, bolano is a pretentious fuck who caqn only impress tarantino fans

[Anonymous No.1132066]

where is this picture from op?

[Anonymous No.1132070]

Ask almost any physicist who they think the top 3 most influential physicists are and you will almost never get back a list that features Hawking. Like it or not, he is pretty much famous for being "that smart dude in the wheelchair."

[Anonymous No.1132071]

>>1132064
not op, but is Infinite Jest really worth it? I was always intimidated by it because it's fucking long as well. Wouldn't I be better off reading something like War and Peace if I want to go about an undertaking like that?

[Anonymous No.1132075]

>>1132071

You could, you know, read both.

[Anonymous No.1132077]

>>1132071

whatever floats your boat, really. they're very different books.

[Anonymous No.1132081]

>>1132070
I don't care how good of a physicist he is (he teaches at Cambridge, that's good enough for me). But I'm still interested in physics, though I don't know much about it.

[11344 ebooks No.1132085]

Pic related, though it was written in 1989. The sequel, World Without End, came out in 2007 - I didn't like it as much as PotE but it wasn't terrible by any means.

Also, this is a stock reply, but have you read The Road? It's fairly short, unlike PotE.

>>1132071
Don't read a book for its length.

[11344 ebooks No.1132086]

>>1132085
Forgot my pic.

[Anonymous No.1132093]

>contemporaneity