this is just from my personal books i've read list that i also record the original publish date on but i really liked these ones
Fernanda Melchor - Paradais
Jon Fosse - Septology
Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman - Sounds Like Titanic
Adam Ehrlich Sachs - The Organs of Sense
Max Porter - Lanny
George Saunders - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Olga Ravn - The Employees
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season
Samanta Schweblin - Seven Empty Houses
Domenico Starnone - Trick
Oisín gayan - Nobber
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
Irene Solà - When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Mariana Enríquez - Things We Lost in the Fire
Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen
Eliot Weinberger - The Ghosts of Birds
Anna Burns - Milkman
Lydia Davis - Our Strangers
Sarah Bernstein - The Coming Bad Days
Jon Fosse - A Shining
Mathias Énard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
Rose Tremain - The Gustav Sonata
Cynan Jones - Cove
Sabrina Orah Mark - Wild Milk
Marilynne Robinson - Jack
Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid
Mark Haber - Saint Sebastian's Abyss
Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris
understood that they may not to be to everyone's tastes here
i actually liked the first two my struggle books but they were published in 2007 and 2009. i started the third but found it boring and never got any further and haven't read any more of his since
>The best list of contemporary literature I've seen is full of boring gossamer stories
If this really shows the best of what contemp lit has, West has fallen
Anyone here read Lyudmila Ulitskaya? I selected a bunch of random books I wouldn't normally read for my bday a couple years ago and ended up with a copy of Jacob's Ladder as a result. Haven't got around to reading it yet but I remember her bio interested me.
I read Jacob's Ladder and I didn't feel like I wanted my time back but I'm not planning to read anything more by her. It felt a bit schematic I guess (my memory is poor and my critical ability is poorer). Fox by Ugresic is tangentially similar in subject matter and enchanted me more, for whatever it might be worth.
Thanks. I got Jacob's Ladder probably because it was the easiest to find at the time but that book she did where she collected stories from people during (either the Soviet Era or it's fall, or both?) seemed like the best place to start. I'll avoid Jacob's Ladder for now, try to figure out what that other book is, and check out your recommendation. Thanks again.
>filtered, if you’re referring to the physics and math parts those are pretty much all surface level shit. I’m not impressed by name drops or just randomly mentioning mathematical concepts without giving any depth to them. Otherwise the story is pretty poorly written from a plot standpoint. There’s beautiful scenes and moments of intense feeling, hell it’s still a cormac novel, but otherwise it’s by far his worst work. The best part was the hallucination scenes for just being downright funny. Tbh as I start to read more I’m starting to realize cormac was a bit overrated
>Otherwise the story is pretty poorly written from a plot standpoint. There’s beautiful scenes and moments of intense feeling, hell it’s still a cormac novel, but otherwise it’s by far his worst work.
The plot is unsatisfying, especially on a first read. But those beautiful scenes and moments of intense feeling are so damn good.
Thanks anon, these sound legit interesting unlike most of
this is just from my personal books i've read list that i also record the original publish date on but i really liked these ones
Fernanda Melchor - Paradais
Jon Fosse - Septology
Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman - Sounds Like Titanic
Adam Ehrlich Sachs - The Organs of Sense
Max Porter - Lanny
George Saunders - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Olga Ravn - The Employees
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season
Samanta Schweblin - Seven Empty Houses
Domenico Starnone - Trick
Oisín gayan - Nobber
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
Irene Solà - When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Mariana Enríquez - Things We Lost in the Fire
Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen
Eliot Weinberger - The Ghosts of Birds
Anna Burns - Milkman
Lydia Davis - Our Strangers
Sarah Bernstein - The Coming Bad Days
Jon Fosse - A Shining
Mathias Énard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
Rose Tremain - The Gustav Sonata
Cynan Jones - Cove
Sabrina Orah Mark - Wild Milk
Marilynne Robinson - Jack
Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid
Mark Haber - Saint Sebastian's Abyss
Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris
understood that they may not to be to everyone's tastes here
, and so the most interesting works in this thread.
NTA but just watch out on the translation quality. I'm autistic about prose and when I gave the Books of Jacob a try a lot of stilted sentences, a disgusting overuse of commas and shitty redundancies turned me off reading past the first book. Though I guess it doesn't matter if you're not on the spectrum, but it ruined the experience so much I considered learning Polish just to compare.
You first, troony.
>he thinks we read
Root Film
this is just from my personal books i've read list that i also record the original publish date on but i really liked these ones
Fernanda Melchor - Paradais
Jon Fosse - Septology
Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman - Sounds Like Titanic
Adam Ehrlich Sachs - The Organs of Sense
Max Porter - Lanny
George Saunders - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Olga Ravn - The Employees
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season
Samanta Schweblin - Seven Empty Houses
Domenico Starnone - Trick
Oisín gayan - Nobber
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
Irene Solà - When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Mariana Enríquez - Things We Lost in the Fire
Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen
Eliot Weinberger - The Ghosts of Birds
Anna Burns - Milkman
Lydia Davis - Our Strangers
Sarah Bernstein - The Coming Bad Days
Jon Fosse - A Shining
Mathias Énard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
Rose Tremain - The Gustav Sonata
Cynan Jones - Cove
Sabrina Orah Mark - Wild Milk
Marilynne Robinson - Jack
Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid
Mark Haber - Saint Sebastian's Abyss
Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris
understood that they may not to be to everyone's tastes here
What about My Year of Rest and Relaxation?
i haven't read it yet!
it's definitely on my list given that i liked the other ones of hers i read
>no knausgaard...
> knausgaard
>good
i actually liked the first two my struggle books but they were published in 2007 and 2009. i started the third but found it boring and never got any further and haven't read any more of his since
>Fernanda Melchor
nepobaby
she went to a public school, so I doubt it.
>The best list of contemporary literature I've seen is full of boring gossamer stories
If this really shows the best of what contemp lit has, West has fallen
Anyone here read Lyudmila Ulitskaya? I selected a bunch of random books I wouldn't normally read for my bday a couple years ago and ended up with a copy of Jacob's Ladder as a result. Haven't got around to reading it yet but I remember her bio interested me.
I read Jacob's Ladder and I didn't feel like I wanted my time back but I'm not planning to read anything more by her. It felt a bit schematic I guess (my memory is poor and my critical ability is poorer). Fox by Ugresic is tangentially similar in subject matter and enchanted me more, for whatever it might be worth.
Thanks. I got Jacob's Ladder probably because it was the easiest to find at the time but that book she did where she collected stories from people during (either the Soviet Era or it's fall, or both?) seemed like the best place to start. I'll avoid Jacob's Ladder for now, try to figure out what that other book is, and check out your recommendation. Thanks again.
I liked Antkind.
Cheating but I liked the Yoko Ogawa books I read that were written in the 90s but weren't available in English until the 2010s.
I also liked Lincoln in the Bardo but found it to be a pretty overrated critics.
I’m a big Cormac fan but the passenger was incredibly disappointing. Stella marris is actually god awful
Same
filtered
stfu it’s shit
just admit you got filtered
>there are no bad books
there are bad books (like books written by women) but the passenger and stella maris are too smart to be bad
> like books written by women
there are books written by women better than this crap
> too smart to be bad
No such thing
have a nice day troony
>filtered, if you’re referring to the physics and math parts those are pretty much all surface level shit. I’m not impressed by name drops or just randomly mentioning mathematical concepts without giving any depth to them. Otherwise the story is pretty poorly written from a plot standpoint. There’s beautiful scenes and moments of intense feeling, hell it’s still a cormac novel, but otherwise it’s by far his worst work. The best part was the hallucination scenes for just being downright funny. Tbh as I start to read more I’m starting to realize cormac was a bit overrated
You are just a bit smoothbrained to get them.
arrowfail
>Otherwise the story is pretty poorly written from a plot standpoint. There’s beautiful scenes and moments of intense feeling, hell it’s still a cormac novel, but otherwise it’s by far his worst work.
The plot is unsatisfying, especially on a first read. But those beautiful scenes and moments of intense feeling are so damn good.
Books of Jacob and Drive your lpows over the bones of the dead were both excellent.
I always keep an eye on Fitzcarraldo Editions. When they're good they're very good
Thanks anon, these sound legit interesting unlike most of
, and so the most interesting works in this thread.
>Books of Jacob
>Drive your plows over the bones of the dead
>Fitzcarraldo Editions
Thanks anon
NTA but just watch out on the translation quality. I'm autistic about prose and when I gave the Books of Jacob a try a lot of stilted sentences, a disgusting overuse of commas and shitty redundancies turned me off reading past the first book. Though I guess it doesn't matter if you're not on the spectrum, but it ruined the experience so much I considered learning Polish just to compare.
What condition do you really have? It doesn't sound like literal autism.