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Top 3 novels of the 21st Century. Go.

>> No.4837536

inb4 murakami

>> No.4837547

>>4837521
Saturday by Ian McEwan maybe

>> No.4837548

1. Hunger Games
2. Life of Pi
3. The Da Vinci Code

>> No.4837571

Literally can't think of a decent novel written post 2000. All mediocre drivel.

>> No.4837581
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>>4837571

>> No.4837590

>>4837581

dull drivel.

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>>4837590

>implying you've even read it

Here, have another that you can pretend that you've read.

>> No.4837617

Are any post-2000 Pynchon novels good?

>> No.4837620

>>4837571
what about mccarthy

>> No.4837625

>>4837581
I second this (although I didn't finish it)

>> No.4837626

>>4837617
>>4837620
old man drivel

>> No.4837630

>>4837626
it's spelled dribble, actually

>> No.4837651

1. Kite Runner
2. Life of Pi
3. The Fault in our Stars

>> No.4837676

>>4837651
I can't tell if you're joking or not. I had to read Kite Runner for my AP Lit class and my girlfriend just recommended me The Fault in Our Stars.

>> No.4837765

>>4837548

>trolling this hard

>> No.4838819

>>4837676
I read fault in our stars simply because it is easy, breezy and you can be completely passive. All of John Green's novels are like that. It's not literature but you can read it when you are clogged.

>> No.4838835

>>4837548
>>4837651
Life of Pi lol. Some shit head in my 9th grade English class was convinced that book was a refutation of agnosticism and atheism.

>> No.4838847

>>4838819

I think it's deliberate. It's directed towards teens and they are definitely 'clogged' mentally.

>> No.4838853

>>4838847
yeah. I said that since I see a lot of hatred for him. There seems to be the view that all books should be deep. I guess some of them can be shallow just so you can sit and go through them easily like wind through a keyhole [SK].

>> No.4838859

>>4838835

Well, it sort of is. Considering that neither atheism nor theism are absolute in their chance of being right it comes down to which choice you prefer, which choice you think will make your life better. That's why Peter Hitchens converted, I'm sure many others feel the same.

>> No.4838966

1. 2666 Bolano
2. The Royal Family William T Volkmann
3. House of Leaves Danielwski

>> No.4839036

>>4837547
oh please. I haven't read anything else by McEwan but that novel was nothing short of shallow. It's like someone challenged him to write the stereotypical 21st century novel and he did.

There's just nothing to it. It follows all the elements of a good novel, except there's nothing underneath.

>> No.4839052

>>4837521
1. On Beauty
2. Tapei
3. Never Let Me Go

>> No.4839096

>>4837590
Don't you mean dribble?

>> No.4839296

Martin Amis. Nuff said

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>> No.4839602

I really liked The Thousands Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.

>> No.4839830

Cloud Atlas is good

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4839967

>Italian publication 2000
>English publication 2001

So it's top 20th century and 21th century

>> No.4839970

>>4839967
>21st

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4839977

Chronic City
Freedom
Open City (which is not very good)

I win (not a novel but maybe would make a good title)

>> No.4840128

>>4839096
>>4837630
is this a meme i missed?

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4840189

>Top thread
>Any comments has argumentations about why these books are top

>> No.4840231

I think there are a fair few novels which have been great in the 21st century. I won't name only three:

2666
The Corrections/Freedom
Cloud Atlas
The Pale King
Seibo down below
The Road/The Sunset Limited
White Teeth
Against the Day

There are probably more

>> No.4840256

>>4837548

>Life of Pi
O "God"! I could hardly get past the fucking idea of unity that it dripped with

>> No.4840270

>>4840231
God, will this be the literary legacy of my generation?

>> No.4840278

>>4840270
>complaining about Bolano and Krasznahorkai
Stay pleb

>> No.4840671

>>4840231
Half of these are shit

>> No.4840724

Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual by Alexander Theroux

I have read "The Corrections" Bernhard, "2666" bolano and "Middle C" by Gass, which might be considered the most notable in 21st literature, but for me they only appear in the shadow of uppermost mentioned book.

>> No.4840753

>>4840128
Some tripfag spelled drivel as dribble one time and now people say dribble to make fun if him.

>> No.4840775

>>4838835

Life of Pi is good.

>> No.4840778

>No Taipei by Tao Lin
I'm ashamed of you, /lit/.

>> No.4840790

>>4838859
>Considering that neither atheism nor theism are absolute in their chance of being right it comes down to which choice you prefer

What kind of epistemology is this? "When we don't know the answer, make up whatever you want."

>> No.4841277

>>4840775
I like it from a purely story-telling standpoint.

>> No.4841288

>>4840231
I agree that 2666, The Road, and The Corrections will be regarded as classics in the near future. It's not a matter of their quality (though I personally enjoyed the first two) but of their popular reception, which has been fantastic for all three.

I seriously doubt Freedom, Cloud Atlas, Sunset Limited, and Against the Day, though. They don't have the kind of popular force that the others have.

>> No.4841291

My Struggle Volumes 1, 2, and 3

>> No.4842613

>>4840778
>>4839052

>> No.4842620

>>4840778
That book is awful. I'm confident most of us could write a better book.

>> No.4842621

>>4837548
Janitor!?
Surely this must result in a ban

>> No.4842665

Middlesex and 2666.

>> No.4842675

>>4842621
sorry, there's no down voting on 4chan

>> No.4842701

>>4840256
because you don't see unity in existence?
>couldn't get past
well you can't escape reality