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why everyone on this board only talks about old books?

>> No.18989384

>>18989376
Old souls

>> No.18989393

Because they're better, dumbass.

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18989394

We don’t

>> No.18989396

Call of the Crocodile isn't old. Neither is luh academy

>> No.18989398

>>18989376
200 years isn't old

>> No.18989403

>>18989376
Why don't you start a thread about a good new book?

>> No.18989417

>>18989376
Because modern culture results in Brave New World-esque materialistic consumeristic dystopias that crush creativity and authenticity

>> No.18989939

>>18989376
I reject your premise

>> No.18990036

>>18989398
Yes it is

>> No.18990044

>>18990036
plutarch wrote about 400 year old persons like they were his contemporaries. lit mindset

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18990313

I was born in le wrong generation

>> No.18990335

>>18989376
There are almost no books worth reading written towards the latter half of the 20th Century and even fewer in the 21st

>> No.18990377

>>18989376
only a few good books have been written throughout history

>> No.18990383

>>18989376
Well, go ahead anon. Make a thread about a new book.

>> No.18990393

Call of the Crocodile isn’t old

>> No.18990813

old books usually have more depth and have the interest/novelty of giving insight into the past while being enjoyable literature. plenty of contemporary literature is technically good and enjoyable but mostly generic and unimportant.

>> No.18990862

>>18989376
Because this website has been flooded with millennials who don't have father figures so they cling to the ankles of dead men no one bothers criticizing in modern media

>> No.18991002

>>18989376
There are more old books than new books

>> No.18991016

Because there aren't a lot of good new books yet. Good books don't come along every single year. Even now there are only a handful of good books written in the 21st Century.

That said, I wouldn't mind a thread on Laurus, or A Brief History Of Seven Killings. Both of those are pretty good.

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18991230

>>18989394
>>18989396
>>18990393
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardner's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726

>> No.18991235

>>18989376
They don't. There are at least two dozen threads on 20th-century authors in the catalogue at any time.

>> No.18991272

>>18991230
As soon as I move and get a new book shelf I'm ordering paperbacks of his whole series.

>> No.18991850

>>18989376
Literature died after WW2.

>> No.18991854

>>18991850
This, to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

>> No.18991871

>>18989376
They’re tried and true. Also I’m gonna say a lot of people are memeing themselves into reading those books out of an expectation that they have to in order to “fit in.”

>> No.18991876

Whitney Ryan's seminal piece, Black Future is a relatively recent work