Do you read new books?

Read old books then...

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Mostly because I only started reading for myself about a year ago I am still reading through the classics. I got caught up in a lot of Russian works about six months ago and just finished TBK the other week. The closest book I read to coming out this century was IJ.

There hasn't been anything interesting in the past 10-15 years.

>>8840180
>2666
>Don Delillo
>Thomas Pynchon
>Middle C
>Murakami if you like him
>Tao Lin
>Jonathan Franzen

but overall yes if you never read a 21st century book, you could be just fine

>>8840155
the only good living writers who are currently in their prime that i know of are Tao Lin and Jonathan Franzen

>>8838473
Time filters out the crap and leaves nice neat list of good books. If, like me, you are new to reading seriously then you have a lot of catching up to do, so you can't wade through all the recent untested works.

Only recent books I've read are random gifts I was given. Some contemporary sci fi and recently published history.

If you're reading too many books released in the 21st century chances are your choices are crap.