Name one (1) good book written in the 21st century

Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life

My diary desu

>>9502664
Good?
As in good, not magnificent?
Why do I feel like this is some sort of trap?

>>9502664
God I dislike drake so much. Sort of ashamed of being capable of harbouring such hate for pop stars. Thought I was better than that, but that drake shit really rustles my jimmies.

Drick värmen ur min hand

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>>9502683
I too hate smug black people.

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1998 but close enough

Jerusalem by Alan Moore.

Easily one of the best books ive ever read

Rifkin's Dilemma

>>9502721
So, among the 5 best you ever read?
So, better than the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's works, Racine's works, etc?

That's a really good book.

A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

>>9502683
I know that feeling but in the end, you don't really hate a single person, you hate an idea that you should hate (such as a middle class jew acting like a black guy from the streets).

>>9502683
of all the pop-rap out there you pick drake to hate? cmon now.

>>9502794
>cmon now.
Speaking like this angers me greatly

>>9502791
it's not even the authenticity thing, I get people trying to make money. Also being in between two social hierarchies and choosing to climb the more accessible one (ie: rap game/persona); after all not only is it more accessible to him, but to most people which makes that persona hold a bit more currency - at least for a while. No man, I just fucking hate Drake.
>>9502794
I dislike it all, but God, do I fucking hate Drake.

>>9502794
Drake's the worst dude

Shadowbahn

Damn that's easy dog

Witz joshua cohen
The instructions adam levin
Canonball joseph mcelroy
Never let me up / the buried giant Kazuo Ishiguro

>>9503252
Yeah Drake is just really boring

>>9503263
Go*

flores by mario bellatin
that was easy

>>9502772
I havent read any of them but yea

>>9502822
He's also lyrically retarded

>>9503348
ghostwriters

>>9502822
partying all the the time and leasing ferraris sounds exhausting

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Low effort b8

>>9502809
but i didnt speak like that
i typed it out

>>9502772
lol high school intellectual detected.

Seiobo There Below

>>9502664
Crippled America

>>9502664
Welcome to the NHK and My Twisted World are the only 2 (two) worthwhile literate works of the 21st century.

>>9502664
Fay by Larry Brown

How can you shit on the 21st century when this is the century of James Patterson?

>>9504054
KEK
oh man I read a Patterson book once. Never again anon, never again.

Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon

As When by Tom Raworth (RIP, the most wonderful man you could ever meet)

Incorporated territory: [guma] by Craig santos Perez

Citizen: an American lyric by Claudia Rankine

The transformation by Juliana Spahr

If you're too lazy to look, of course you won't find anything good. Try harder OP

On the edge by Rafael Chirbes

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>>9503393
>not house of chains

>>9502664
book thief

>>9502664

The Road by McCarthy? <:(

How to bomb the U.S. govt

>>9503393
Yeah but this is the only legitimately good fantasy in recent memory, so you should bait harder

>>9504071
This is the correct answer. The problem is that not many people read it or gave it the time it deserved before reviewing it. It's slowly catching on, though. Masterpiece.

>>9505302
>not midnight tides

Oblivion and the Pale King (DFW was really fucking refined by these two releases)
The Corrections (going to assume Freedom and Purity but I am just guessing)
The Instructions

>>9502772
Shove a dusty tome up your asshole, English major. Those are all overrated as fuck.

>>9502669
This.
The part about revenge is eye-opening.

>>9507279
>overrated as fuck.
It's surprising to me that someone who writes like this can't get in to Shakespeare.

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>>9502664
wow that was easy

2666

>>9507417
Shit-tier YA fiction.

>>9507449
Ah, another member of the new meme trilogy.

>>9507410
Is this bait? I've read Shakespeare before, everyone has read Shakespeare. It's standard curriculum in high school. Do you really consider yourself some great intellectual because you read one of the most popular playwrights in history?

>>9507417
Worst book I've read in years, which is a shame because I was so excited for it.

>>9502772
>I could go on and on.

>>9507530
it was a good book before it was part of the meme trilogy, pseud

>>9507279
OVERRATED???

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Is Donna Tartt a good author? Was thinking of reading The Goldfinch.

>>9505624
40% of it is dick drawings.

How to Bomb the US Govt

>>9508342
relative to today's literature, ya

relative to what was around when they were each written, nah (or who knows lots of shit got burnt)

Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

Drake sucks.
My friend likes him and I can't stand it but he's a middle class Jew from Toronto too so I guess he can't help it

>>9502664

Knausgaard's My Struggle
Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below
Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
Pynchon's Against the Day
Bolaño's 2666
Sada's Almost Never

Also worth mentioning
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Houellebecq's Submission

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>>9508688
>88

+1 Knausgaard's My Struggle

>>9507325
What can you tell me that will make me want to read the book?

>>9502791
African-American "culture" in general is trash, so watching others attempt to replicate it is almost sad.

>>9507279
>Shakeapeare overrated
Some of his plays are mediocre, so this has some truth to it.
>Dante overrated
Yeah, no. Fuck off. The Divine Comedy is objectively the greatest work of literature.

>>9502664
The City of Bohane

am i pleb for not having read one (1) book from the 21st century?

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

>>9509225
>dainty italian mamma-miaing his way through hell
>does nothing but look at people and ask why they're being punished and gasp when they explain
>puts people he dislikes in hell and people he likes in heaven
>objectively the greatest work of literature

>>9507417
Hyped to the fucking MOON and completely, completely overrated. kys and >>>/bardo/

>>9509252
>objectively the greatest work of literature
people who make this statement should be referring to The Holy Bible. if not, you are reading the words of a pseud and probably in danger of being converted to Communism.

>>9502683
He writes some very fucking great melodies

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>>9502664

Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth is surprisingly good.

He's actually a good writer when he isn't sperging out on religitards.

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It's fascinating how specific they are with certain laws. Like how often were people cutting off each other's noses and flooding each other's fields that those two things had to be part of the first legal code in human history?

>>9502664
2666

>>9509266
Appreciate the Christ friends here. Hope they return and destroy the pol presence.

>>9502664
The Road.

It is beautiful. I will fight any Nigga who says otherwise.

The Thirteenth Tale

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>>9502664
Pic related reads like the book DFW always wanted to write, and they'll probably teach it in schools one day

>>9509248
Underrated

>>9508706
Today's literature is garbage, wtf are you on about?

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>>9502664

>>9510294
I'm going through it at the moment (read about half) and I'm having a lot of problems with it... There are too many pop culture references thrown in in place of real originality.

>>9508769
Only good post in this thread

>>9510813
Because it mostly namedrops established /lit/core.

Broaden your horizons. Maybe pick up one of the dozens of books mentioned in this thread that you haven't read yet decided they were bad posts anyway.

Platform - Michel Houellebecq

>>9508349
one memorable character unfortunately he isn't the main character
the main characgter is kind of annoying

>>9508349
She's decent but read The Secret History instead.
>>9510836
>Borisfags

Austerlitz

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>>9508369
>implying this is somehow bad

>>9509329
>first legal code in human history?
this pre-dates Hamurabi? things have changed since I was in school.

>>9502664
Haruhi Suzumia.
/thread

>>9510343
>too many pop culture references thrown in in place of real originality.

not him, but I agree with you. I'd recommend his short story book, Drown, for better examples of what Diaz can do. Wao, while still worthwhile (I liked all the chapters focused on the dad getting his family out of the DR) was a let-down.

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>>9502664

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pic related was good.

also >>9511469

>>9505688
>not Toll the Hounds

>>9505641
I was referring to the thread

>>9511573
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>>9502683
this desu senpai. i hate almost all idol-worship of this sort whenever i'm confronted by it and i, too, feel disappointed that i am capable of giving such fucks.