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Which of these are worth reading?

http://bookriot.com/2016/10/17/100-must-read-books-and-comics-from-the-90s/

>> No.8799322

>>8799317
#13

>> No.8800324

>>8799317
As a person who has used the site Book Riot before I am surprised they have #60 on the list.

>> No.8800360

>>8799317
>and-comics
Not even looking.

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Blindness isn't really worth reading; the premise sounds really interesting and it could be, in the right hands. Hoesay just can't really do much with it. White Teeth is worth reading for sure, especially if you are an anglophile. I wouldn't read anything else by her though.

Ghost World is very good too, much better than the movie--darker and more awkward, though the movie isn't bad by any means.

Is The Secret History by D. Tart any good? I'm weary of her given her celebrity and the rep her books have for pretending to higher brow than they perhaps have. I hear the secret history is good despite all that though.

>> No.8800400

>>8800382
The Secret History is entertaining and essential comfycore reading, and is worth reading at least once. But it isn't anything particularly great and adds pretty mich nothing to the literary conversation. Slightly better than John Irving.