new novels and why they suck and whatever

Fine, I didn't say I wasn't going to read it, I'm just saying I had a visceral reaction to dude's photo.

v neck t-shirts and why they suck and whatever

i only read people who wear v-necks and live in brooklyn

i have only my own beard to burden

hello i picked up a copy of oscar wao in part because of this thread/max & nabisco's rec and i really enjoyed it & so did my girlfriend

kind of a silly thing to say since the book has won a pulitzer prize and was book of the year 2007 on like a billion ppl's lists but i am not hip to these things and this was the first i'd heard of it

i wish the new franzen book was coming out a week earlier, i'm going out of town this weekend and need something new to read.

oh god what will u do

i am looking forward to this: http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/the-orange-eats-creeps/

just posting to say that light boxes sounds horrible

but kudos to all

HEY SO I READ REMAINDER LAST WEEK

THAT BOOK IS REALLY FUCKING GOOD YALL

I MEAN

SHIT

I DIDNT MEAN TO POST IN CAPS BUT IT SEEMED APPROPRIATE

CAUSE THAT BOOK

DANG

I read mulligan stew last week. It was pretty funny but the best parts were in the beginning

new novels and why they suck or whatever

what is new

new is today's tomorrows

ive only read like 10 pages but linda le's the three fates seems p interesting

read David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" b/c of this thread and it was aawweessoommee

man reading is so pointless. reading 400 pages of some shitty book that i can use sparknotes to find out the basic point (like being a lawyer i guess), you're only gonna forget that shit a few days later. pointless invention, books

thanks for the David Mitchell rec guys. Really enjoying Cloud Atlas. I guess not all new novels suck or whatever

yayyyyy

yeah that book was great

how far along are you shakey?

third section - "Half Lives: the firt Luisa Rey mystery", sooo 90 pages or so?

ppl should stop writing, publishing novels in 2014

free advice! step right up and get your free advice!

lol stfu silby

xp: uh oh im having a fantasy u started a thread about an east european or mb german dude like a year ago whose books i really wanted to read but i forget who it was now. also did i ever ask u about hard rain falling? i really really love that book

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I went to the library today and picked this book up among other things because I remembered it from somewhere, I guess it was here

Who was the east european or mb german dude tho

I also picked up The Alp by Arno Camenisch, which isn't really a novel, but seems to be a 2014 thing that I, so far, really enjoy. It's also the first new Dalkey book that I've enjoyed reading in a while, I mean I usually get something out of new Dalkey things but they're, often-times, painful to get through.

probably laszlo krasznahorkai, war n war is the only book of his I can actually get through. xp

cant believe we had a thousand post thread on nu novels and now ppl only read young adult fan fic graphic novels rip literature

a lot of this thread was about sci fi though

silby otm. fiction is dull.

hey I didn't say fiction is dull

like obviously I'm adopting some sort of semi-disingenuous lol internet position by posting "people should stop writing novels" but just the continued existence of the market for new lit-fic novels is kind of legitimately weird to me

ahem, *new* fiction is dull

but honestly i'm bored* of all fiction for the last couple years. this must be the curse of studying english lit.

*i'm also pretty sure that the more non-fiction i read, and the less fiction, the more boring i get

always a risk that when you say something, mordy will agree with you

haha

anyway I'd settle on a moratorium on new novels written in English by white men

I realize I can adopt this as a personal rule but I read a wikipedia article about Kant once and I think it means I'm supposed to babble about it on the internet too.

When novels like 2666 are being written, there is still a reason to write and publish novels. QED.

silby have you read the sugar-frosted nutsack?

no but I have to confess this looks disturbingly like something I would enjoy

it's not that I haven't enjoyed any recent long fiction, I just think it's weird that it exists

like I walk into the bookstore and I look at the New in Fiction table and I'm like, who are these people? how did they get around to writing a novel? is anyone going to read this?

a lot of people (me included) have creative writing degrees/MAs/MFAs - we've got to do something with them

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is one of the best novels I've ever read. I'm a big fan of Jonathan Franzen as well.

I am surprised that old classics are published, such is the focus on the chronological new and now.