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What do you think?

>Best:
Pynchon
Ishiguro
Delillo
McCarthy

>Worst:
Diaz
Tan
Lahiri
Kakutan

>> No.16035748

>>16035325
Are Pynch and Delillo worth reading as a non-american?

>> No.16035770

>>16035325
What’s the reasoning behind your choices for the “worst” part here?

>> No.16035810

>>16035748
not 'murrican but like 'em both

>> No.16035838

>>16035325
wow, starting a thread with not only le pynchmeister but an opinion shared by 95% of this board as well! very cool!

>> No.16035879

>>16035748
Britbong here and they're both great (pynch more so, for me).

>> No.16035907

>>16035879
Yeah, Brits are close to Americans culturally ig. I'm from Armenia tho.

>> No.16036019

>>16035838
>but an opinion shared by 95% of this board

ah yes, we should only post contrarian opinions

>> No.16036735

I don't know if most of the authors you mentioned count as contemporary desu.
If you like McCarthy you'd enjoy Fernanda Melchor, a follower of his from Mexico and also a contemporary author. She's part of this group of authors who apparently write about similar topics and I suppose might be inspired by McCarthy too, but the others give me the impression to be mostly shit.

>> No.16037118

>>16035325
Ishiguro is the only decent writer on that list and he is not even top 20 living
KYS, filtered anglo mutt fag

>> No.16037124

>>16037118
Also inb4 someone posts some of those meme charts of writers that were featured in Oprah or memed some other way in mainstream burger media
Fuck off, abort yourself, and drink cum by the gallons

>> No.16037222

>>16037118
Not op but please provide the list of top 20 living authors. I'm very interested.

>> No.16037339

>>16037118
Ishiguro blows

>> No.16037378

>>16035325
switch delillo with mcewan

>> No.16037392

>>16035325
>Lahiri
>Kakutan
Who?

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>> No.16037443

>>16035325
best:
cohen
levin
kaufman
hill

>> No.16037460

>>16037118
>he doesn't like Pynchon
Why do you hate humor?

>> No.16037810

>>16037460
because he is not funny at all

>> No.16038013

>>16035325
>Best:
Me

>Worst:
Everyone else.

>> No.16038025

>>16037431
What is he supposed to be wearing on his head here?

>> No.16038059

>>16037460
>he doesn't like Peterson
Why do you hate psychiatry?

>he doesn't like Dan Brown
Why do you hate books?

>he doesn't like Katy Perry
Why do you hate music?

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16038132

I think Jonathan Franzen might be among the contemporary authors I hate. Has anyone read "The Corrections"? It may be one the most dishonest, self-indulgent pieces of literature I've read in recent memory. And this fuckin guy has the audacity to claim his book is too good for the Oprah Book Club. Ironically, I think that "The Corrections" is the EXACT kind of book that would be lauded by the Oprah Book Club.

>Best
Pynchon
Wallace
DeLillo

>> No.16038226

>>16038132
Have you actually read them or do you just shitpost on /lit/ without ever picking up a book?
Alternatively, have you ever read a writer who was not a /lit/ meme?

>> No.16038237

>>16038226
>Have you actually read them or do you just shitpost on /lit/ without ever picking up a book?
The former!

>Alternatively, have you ever read a writer who was not a /lit/ meme?
I have!

Why so hostile, anon?

>> No.16038268

>>16038237
I always make the mistake of putting too much faith in /lit/. I thought surely, only a mentally deficient man can believe those mutts are good writers, not to mention the best. Wallace, for christ's sake... He isn't just a bad writer, he is outright awful. Do you just now know better? Have you never read anything by, say, Pamuk, or Kadare? Maybe Handke at least?

>> No.16038291

>>16038237
>>16038268
Here's an actual list btw:
1. Peter Nadas
2. Ismail Kadare
3. Orhan Pamuk
4. Gerald Murnane
5. Anne Carson
6. Yu Hua
These 6 are I think the very best, not sure who would be the 7th, but there's a big power gap there. Maybe Krazzy or Fosse.

>> No.16038303

>>16035325
>Best
Thomas Ligotti
Teju Cole

>> No.16038324

>rei, asuka and shinji are harvested for organs
>best contemporary writer

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>>16038268
>>16038291
Wow! What a list! You must be pretty smart and well-read, anon. Stick it to the plebes; that's what I always say, too.

>> No.16038341

>>16035748
not really, it's another case of americacentrism, what keeps you from giving them a try though?

>> No.16038343

>>16035325

>No Rooney

Yikes.

>> No.16038528

>>16038341
I don't read a lot so I'm picky about what I choose.

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>>16035838

>> No.16039740

>>16038291
don't you mean peter nádas and 余华?

>> No.16041014

>>16038059
Is there any rhyme or reason to these comparisons, or are you just stupid?

>> No.16041037

JAMES
JOYCE
IS
FUCKING
TRASH
AND
EVERYONE
WHO
LIKES
HIM
IS
AN
AUTISTIC
PRETENTIOUS
FAGGOT
HOLY
FUCK

>> No.16042233

>>16038132
Franzen said books shouldn't be difficult or challenging. Monthly reminder that he got BTFO by based Ben Marcus
http://www.williamgaddis.org/marcus.pdf

>> No.16043063

>>16041014
Seethe harder

>> No.16044790

>>16038025
The post is showing pynch as a brainlet.