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I've realized that I actually greatly enjoy reading but my abysmally slow pace and general uninterest comes from having almost exclusively tortured myself with "classics". Not even saying that any of those have been bad works (and some of them I really like, like Frankenstein) but I'm reading an actually modern little book after ages of not doing so, and you can just let your eyes glide across the page with zero effort.

What are the best authors that I should be going through for actually modern fiction? Houellebecq is one off the top of my head, since i've only read "Submission" after seeing it at the library. Currently reading Richard Mathesons "Hell House" (also bought I am Legend and Roadside Picnic)

I've kind of gotten tunnelvision regarding literature since I decided to focus on classics years ago for some reason

>> No.19125031
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19125031

Dune

>> No.19125080

>>19125031
Already own it and read it.

>> No.19125112

>>19125080
The you're shit out of luck, kid. Dune was the last novel ever written.

>> No.19125123

>>19123631
robert mccammon swan song

>> No.19125129

>>19125112
TBOTNS came out after Dune and its far better, even just within that one genre

>> No.19125135

>>19125112
Snow Queen better

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19125254

take the YA pill