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Best books of the 21st century

I have only read a few of these books, but it doesn't appear...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
lol Ulyseses sucks sorry
lascivious bipolar school
  09/17/18
ulysses is the best novel written aside from anna karenina.
territorial french chef
  09/17/18
LOL
Snowy Legal Warrant
  09/18/18
...
outnumbered titillating theater
  09/18/18
lmao the first thing that loaded was franzen's face.
Pale idiot
  09/17/18
Never Let Me Go and The Road are both very, very good lol a...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
I read The Road and I agree it is pretty good. I also bought...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
give Ishiguro a shot he's my favorite active author, copped...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
Yeah, I have heard good things but never got around to read ...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
it's good shit, pretty unpretentious for literary fiction, r...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
never saw the never let me go movie but the book is excellen...
180 blood rage
  09/17/18
kiera knightley as one of the leads kind of ruins it, never ...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
Ishiguro is overrated and never let me go book is poorly wri...
Violent Copper Hell Police Squad
  09/17/18
there's some good shit in here. The Outline Trilogy is aweso...
Pale idiot
  09/17/18
What are your top 2-3 novels of the past 20 years?
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
off the top of my head, Netherland Galveston Elementary P...
Pale idiot
  09/17/18
Interesting, I really liked both Galveston and Netherland. W...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
the style in both is impeccable
Pale idiot
  09/17/18
whoa just looked these up and Galveston is by the True Detec...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
he published a couple short stories in the atlantic before t...
Pale idiot
  09/17/18
ty will cop
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
just put a hold/transfer on Galveston and the short stories ...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
You can get a used copy for about $4-$5 on Amazon https:/...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
I don't like used cuz they often have markups in them (even ...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
I'll be surprised if you're not amazed by that book. The pro...
Pale idiot
  09/17/18
ty again, I know very little about contemporary fiction that...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
Some more recommendations: Dark Star by Alan Furst Before ...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
whoa another tv guy (Hawley) who made a fucking awesome show...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
...
Walnut chapel
  09/17/18
it's diet mccarthy
Pale idiot
  09/18/18
So are apples
Snowy Legal Warrant
  09/18/18
the only 21st century novel i remember liking was jonathan s...
transparent elite pisswyrm ceo
  09/17/18
Has most of the British and American stuff I'd expect...McEw...
Violet Passionate Milk
  09/17/18
The Plot Against America is SO shitty and it's so pathetic t...
Costumed fear-inspiring striped hyena brunch
  09/17/18
Couldn’t make it past 20 pages
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
yeah the human stain is roth's only major work this century
Violet Passionate Milk
  09/17/18
Some 180 imagery and scenes here It was listed before drump...
Glittery Spruce Pit Boistinker
  09/17/18
Roth has been forcememed for decades. This has nothing to do...
vibrant yarmulke
  09/17/18
But that particular book is forcememed because BUSH IS HITLE...
Costumed fear-inspiring striped hyena brunch
  09/17/18
This list isn't sps: atonement, line of beauty, never let me...
vibrant yarmulke
  09/17/18
Goldfinch is a great book
Violent Copper Hell Police Squad
  09/17/18
need to read that one
Pale idiot
  09/18/18
The predominant art-form today is long-form television shows...
Vivacious masturbator regret
  09/17/18
constant internet/smartphone usage fried everyone's brains. ...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
I read 5-6 books a month but only 4-5 novels a year.
Vivacious masturbator regret
  09/17/18
that's because, in addition to the attention span required b...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
what are the other books if not novels? Nonfiction?
Violent Copper Hell Police Squad
  09/17/18
Yeah, usually classics or business.
Vivacious masturbator regret
  09/18/18
2666 and The Corrections are worthy competitors - but there ...
Cowardly spectacular national security agency telephone
  09/17/18
re: #3, perfect line from a Robert Frost poem: "How ar...
Laughsome hilarious persian
  09/17/18
The biggest reason that novels are dying is that we have mor...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
I poasted about #3 a few years ago http://www.xoxohth.com...
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
also the whole publishing industry is different now the only...
outnumbered titillating theater
  09/18/18
Of course they picked the worst Houellebecq novel.
floppy market
  09/17/18
...
razzle-dazzle abode
  09/18/18
literature is dead.
Nudist philosopher-king school cafeteria
  09/17/18
Sadly CR
Electric Talking Queen Of The Night
  09/17/18
lol no
Violent Copper Hell Police Squad
  09/17/18
...
Lime Razzmatazz Coldplay Fan
  09/18/18
There's always good literature man
Pale idiot
  09/18/18
"Not since Angela Carter has a writer subverted classic...
Snowy Legal Warrant
  09/18/18


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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:33 AM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

I have only read a few of these books, but it doesn't appear I am missing out. Apparently the best our culture produces now includes a zombie novel and Gone Girl.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/a-premature-attempt-at-the-21st-century-literary-canon.html

Now look at this list of the best novels of the 20th century. Compare Gone Girl to Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, Pale Fire, and Darkness at Noon. It is hard not to conclude that that literary novels are dead and/or our culture is in a precipitous decline.

http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824843)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: lascivious bipolar school

lol Ulyseses sucks sorry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824855)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:25 PM
Author: territorial french chef

ulysses is the best novel written aside from anna karenina.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828313)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 5:14 PM
Author: Snowy Legal Warrant

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36834813)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 5:18 PM
Author: outnumbered titillating theater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36834847)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: Pale idiot

lmao the first thing that loaded was franzen's face.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824856)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:36 AM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

Never Let Me Go and The Road are both very, very good

lol at the rest, especially this gem:

The Sluts, by Dennis Cooper (January 13, 2005)

Once upon a time, in the prelude to the plague years, gay male desire invented its most mesmeric and unbearable object: the twink. Blond, white, underweight, and user-friendly, he was a plastic icon of inverted, Aryan masculinity. As AIDS destroyed a population, as the internet quickened and anarchized our pornographies, the twink took off. Dennis Cooper hit this crepuscular intersection of web and death with effortless genius. A series of online rent-boy reviews describe the discovery, torture, and maybe murder of a barely-legal, no-limits hustler named Brad. Call it the twink cri de coeur — all surface, and so, perversely impenetrable. It is a dangerous fantasia, slipping so easily into the mouths and minds of homophobes. But go ahead, let them taste it. They want it as much as anyone. —David Velasco

OH what a canonical work of art!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824872)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:39 AM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

I read The Road and I agree it is pretty good. I also bought The Plot Against America, but never got around to reading it all the way through. Reading the synopsis of most of these shows how far we have fallen. Why would any straight male read fiction anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824890)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:41 AM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

give Ishiguro a shot

he's my favorite active author, copped the Nobel a year ago.

The Remains of the Day is also excellent. His newest one, The Buried Giant was weird as fuck (like the style and content were just so far removed from his other stuff), but I still enjoyed it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824903)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:44 AM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

Yeah, I have heard good things but never got around to read anything of his. I saw the movie adaptation of Never Let Me Go, but I imagine the novel is much better. I will check one of his books out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824912)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:46 AM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

it's good shit, pretty unpretentious for literary fiction, relatively short and quick reads

and yes, the NLMG book was much better than the movie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824928)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:10 PM
Author: 180 blood rage

never saw the never let me go movie but the book is excellent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826445)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:11 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

kiera knightley as one of the leads kind of ruins it, never liked her. Carey Mulligan (from Drive and Shame) is solid though, saves it in some regards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826458)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:42 PM
Author: Violent Copper Hell Police Squad

Ishiguro is overrated and never let me go book is poorly written.

The Road is even worse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828398)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:48 AM
Author: Pale idiot

there's some good shit in here. The Outline Trilogy is awesome, 2666 is good but way too fucking long, I enjoyed How Should A Person Be? but it was probably too twee for (xo poa. Platform, Leaving the Atocha Station, pretty good. Oblivion is my favorite DFW work. I loved The Sense of an Ending by Barnes. Capital and Preparation For The Next Life were good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824938)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 2:36 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

What are your top 2-3 novels of the past 20 years?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826207)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: Pale idiot

off the top of my head,

Netherland

Galveston

Elementary Particles

those are up there but there's a shit ton i forget

and mentioned in that list, The Sense Of An Ending is really fantastic and stuck with me for a long time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826288)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 2:53 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

Interesting, I really liked both Galveston and Netherland. We must have similar taste.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826335)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:01 PM
Author: Pale idiot

the style in both is impeccable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826386)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:03 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

whoa just looked these up and Galveston is by the True Detective dude, 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826399)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:06 PM
Author: Pale idiot

he published a couple short stories in the atlantic before that: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/before-em-true-detective-em-the-short-stories-of-nic-pizzolatto/283992/

his book of short stories, between here and the yellow sea, is also amazing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826418)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:07 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

ty will cop

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826424)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:22 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

just put a hold/transfer on Galveston and the short stories at my library, 180 love libraries. Of course I will buy if they have great re-read value.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826983)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:23 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

You can get a used copy for about $4-$5 on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1439166641/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827000)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

I don't like used cuz they often have markups in them (even if listed as "very good"), but still cheap new anyway. But I like checking out from libraries first if something is available. Even if I do like it, if I feel like I won't ever read it again, there's no point

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827024)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 6:04 PM
Author: Pale idiot

I'll be surprised if you're not amazed by that book. The prose is so good that it completely transcends the crime genre. It makes a guy like Dennis Lehane look semi-retarded.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827745)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:19 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

ty again, I know very little about contemporary fiction that's actually worth a damn, so good recs are valuable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828282)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:24 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

Some more recommendations:

Dark Star by Alan Furst

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828303)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:33 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

whoa another tv guy (Hawley) who made a fucking awesome show (Fargo), who I didn't even know wrote books wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828347)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:53 PM
Author: Walnut chapel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828450)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 10:09 AM
Author: Pale idiot

it's diet mccarthy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36831698)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: Snowy Legal Warrant

So are apples

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36835070)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:48 AM
Author: transparent elite pisswyrm ceo

the only 21st century novel i remember liking was jonathan strange and mr. norrell. it was good, but it is not going to be a classic.

xo is too political and i contribute to the problem, but i wonder if libs destroyed contemporary literature.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36824940)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:56 AM
Author: Violet Passionate Milk

Has most of the British and American stuff I'd expect...McEwan, Ishiguro, Barnes, Hollinghurst, Roth, Franzen, Chabon. Then a bunch of women and minorities I'll never read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36825004)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 2:39 PM
Author: Costumed fear-inspiring striped hyena brunch

The Plot Against America is SO shitty and it's so pathetic that it keeps getting listed as a Great Book by libs who think it proves Bush/Trump is Hitler.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826236)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 2:42 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

Couldn’t make it past 20 pages

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826256)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 2:55 PM
Author: Violet Passionate Milk

yeah the human stain is roth's only major work this century

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826341)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:11 PM
Author: Glittery Spruce Pit Boistinker

Some 180 imagery and scenes here

It was listed before drumpf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826456)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:20 PM
Author: vibrant yarmulke

Roth has been forcememed for decades. This has nothing to do with Bush or trump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826540)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:24 PM
Author: Costumed fear-inspiring striped hyena brunch

But that particular book is forcememed because BUSH IS HITLER and so forth. It's a shitty book.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827008)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 3:19 PM
Author: vibrant yarmulke

This list isn't sps: atonement, line of beauty, never let me go, Goldfinch, in addition to some listed above will stand the test of time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826520)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:45 PM
Author: Violent Copper Hell Police Squad

Goldfinch is a great book

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828416)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 3:12 PM
Author: Pale idiot

need to read that one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36833740)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:22 PM
Author: Vivacious masturbator regret

The predominant art-form today is long-form television shows.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36826990)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:23 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

constant internet/smartphone usage fried everyone's brains. But once you get back into reading for long stretches of time, you gain the attention span back and it becomes easier.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827004)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: Vivacious masturbator regret

I read 5-6 books a month but only 4-5 novels a year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827028)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:27 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

that's because, in addition to the attention span required by all books, novels require active imagination, which can be more taxing

reading philosophy, though, is taxing in a different way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827040)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: Violent Copper Hell Police Squad

what are the other books if not novels? Nonfiction?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828438)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 4:55 PM
Author: Vivacious masturbator regret

Yeah, usually classics or business.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36834626)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Cowardly spectacular national security agency telephone

2666 and The Corrections are worthy competitors - but there are a few issues with comparing these lists.

1) We're drawing from the first 18 years - less than 20% the timeframe

2) It's hard to tell what stands the test of time when time hasn't really past yet.

3) I wonder if how easy people's lives are now have a negative impact on literature. Lots of great 20th century authors were WW1 / WW2 survivors / veterans, lives through great depression, etc. , knew more people who died younger or in some of these wars or to sickness or disease, etc. I wonder what kind of impact that has.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827071)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:32 PM
Author: Laughsome hilarious persian

re: #3, perfect line from a Robert Frost poem:

"How are we to write the Russian novel in America as long as life goes so unterribly?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827080)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 4:59 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

The biggest reason that novels are dying is that we have more compelling entertainment options (long-form TV series, videogames, Internet). Most men would rather watch an HBO show or play video games than read. Over 80% of fiction is read by women and the publishing industry is dominated by women and gay men. This has shaped what is published to the extent that almost no fiction aimed at heterosexual males is available and promoted.

To your point, I would say the majority of literary fiction comes from graduates of MFA programs that have led fairly uninteresting lives. It would be 180 if we got more novels from people with actually interesting experiences (astronaut, Navy SEAL, CIA/FBI agent, pro athlete, ER doctor). But that times has past.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827291)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 5:00 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

I poasted about #3 a few years ago

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3000005&mc=3&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36827293)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 5:16 PM
Author: outnumbered titillating theater

also the whole publishing industry is different now the only people who get book deals anymore are stuffy MFA fags

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36834827)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:33 PM
Author: floppy market

Of course they picked the worst Houellebecq novel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828349)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 4:54 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36834622)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:39 PM
Author: Nudist philosopher-king school cafeteria

literature is dead.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828372)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:44 PM
Author: Electric Talking Queen Of The Night

Sadly CR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828411)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: Violent Copper Hell Police Squad

lol no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36828440)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 5:16 PM
Author: Lime Razzmatazz Coldplay Fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36834821)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 12:05 AM
Author: Pale idiot

There's always good literature man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36830231)



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Date: September 18th, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: Snowy Legal Warrant

"Not since Angela Carter has a writer subverted classic fairy-tale tropes the way Helen Oyeyemi does, to transformative effect. Mr. Fox is perhaps the first brilliant work of romantic metafiction, a novel that tells the story of a few characters over and over again in pitch-perfect iterations that reveal volumes about love and loneliness and violence. Undeniably clever — but not so clever as to obscure the sentiment embedded in Oyeyemi’s shrewd structure — Mr. Fox has the brains and the heart to win over both those who enjoy unraveling how fiction works and those who just seek pure enjoyment. —Maris Kreizman"

Anyone who writes like this is unqualified to judge writing. What utter nonsense.

Also, The Last Samurai isn't a book of the 21st century. It was written and published in the 20th.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4079355&forum_id=2#36835067)