>Age >Last five novels you read Rate them if you want to
>23 years old
>Stoner Damn, that straightforward prose is pretty nice. His early life and transformation in Sloane's class was dope. Love affair with Katherine, great as well. The passage where he nearly jumps out the window was fantastic. His marriage with Edith started out really interesting but then it never changed, and I felt like there was a missed opportunity for some sort of character arc, but maybe that was the point. I didn't see the point of the crippled characters. This book started off so well but I wish Stoner killed himself cuz the second half of the novel was pretty boring. Still a good read. 7/10
>Infinite Jest Nearly put it down after 300 pages due to confusion, but it ended up being one of my favorites. I started off my year with this one, had a lot of time to myself dude to a painful breakup, was perfect timing. Hal's transformation, the whole Incandenza family, Ennet House, Gately's memories at the end, overall this book is just life affirming and beautiful. 9.5/10
>Paradise Lost Only read the first chapter. Satan's monologues were insanely good, but goddamn this was more like theoretical physics than literature. I'm too young for this shit. Maybe I'll pick it up again when I'm in my thirties. Can't rate because DNF
>Brothers K Yeah.... it's the best novel I've ever read. One of my top 5 life experiences really. 10/10
>The Road Setting and mood were top notch. The minimalism of the prose and dialogue were really tryhard though. Kind of a sloppy ending too, but overall it was still very moving somehow. 7.5/10
sage for asshole promoting himself, no idea who this hard-omn is
Henry Scott
>t. Non sequitur
Asher Nelson
>25
>Old Man’s War by John Scalzi Sort of a Star Trek like story, but kind of deep with some cool messages. Parts make you want to actually be in the book. Some of the twists were expected.
>Bricked In by Max Wannow Weird as fuck book but I can’t deny the plot twists were entertaining and this book makes you think. Sometimes the plot is all over the place though. I could also do without the gross sexual descriptions.
>Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker Not a novel, but I recommend it to anyone who is a pessimist about the future of humanity. It’s basically evidence and graphs for how today is the best time to be alive and tomorrow will be better.
>A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias Character development and world building is great, but the aliens acted human and it made no sense. It seems like a book written by an anthropologist trying to impress his colleagues with cool cultures he made up.
>Free Will of Hopeless by Max Wannow Going into this one, I thought it was a chicklit, but the girl ends up having sex with her dog and it becomes the plot. Sorry for the spoiler, but that’s the type of shit that shouldn’t be hidden when you buy the book
Noah Green
>pretty nice >dope >great >boring >still great jesus christ can you even SAY ANYTHING?
Gabriel Reed
>Enlightenment Now I might read this. I've been trying to explain to my friends how humanity is only getting better but they refuse to believe it
Henry Wright
They say reading improves vocabulary
Jack Flores
Sounding like a NYT critic is the last thing I want to do. Sure, my vocabulary could be better but I only do this for people who might be on the fence about reading something, or to see if someone wants to discuss one of them
Evan Harris
>27
>Mrs Dalloway first reread. took it slowly, marked up the best passages. Woolf writes incredible sentences. next: the Waves. >One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich life-affirming in the sense that I am now able to appreciate the relative luxury of not spending ten years in a gulag. >Persuasion second favourite of four Austens so far. (MP>P>NA>P&P) >Silas Marner best book I read this winter. made me laugh, made me cry, made me appreciate the beauty of the Midlands dialect. >Agua Viva second reread. it becomes more impossible to say anything about it each time. will probably have read it again before the end of the year.
Henry Phillips
Enlightenment Now was published like last week too so it’s up to date, he even mentions Trump. He even dares to mention school shootings and terrorism. Everything is backed up by graphs too. For the school shooting one, which is probably the argument from your friends, I think the graph is number of deaths per year due to mass shootings and it’s been about the same since Columbine with a slight decline
