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Book Of The Year So Far: 2016
Isaiah Reed
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Evan Allen
I wish I had the time to read new shit but I don't even have the time to read a tiny percentage of the books that I have a 90% confidence that I'll love.
If I worked in the field I would, but I got a job mate. I gotta focus on Moby Dick and shit.
Jacob Evans
I think The Vegetarian was released this year? I could be wrong. It's great though.
Tyler Gomez
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Andrew Smith
>The Vegetarian
what's so good about it? I'm 1/3 in and find it pretty shallow and forced. The work diner where she refuses to eat meat and everyone freaks out? Crap. The family meeting where the father rapes her mouth with food? Crap. There's no subtleties in the book, it's all "She's not eating any meat!! GAAAAAAAAHHHHH!! DIE YOU BEAST!!!!!"
Seriously, can you tell me why you like it?
Cooper Bell
I didn't think I was going to like it when I was at that point, though the melodrama of those scenes was fun, but the next two perspectives create this triumvirate of others projecting onto her and constructing her as they see fit, that she bizarrely becomes this autonomous entity that defies their characterizations of her by rejecting the "requirements" imposed as the conditions of humanity/life.
I can't remember the precise word, but there was a recurring awkward word that made me doubt the quality of the translation during the first third, but by the end of it i felt like some strange word choices contributed to the eery loss of humanity going on.
Nathan Smith
I have it on a shelf but I really don't like the cover, probably going to have to remove the dustsleeve if I want to read it. Like one of the Greeks frozen in carbonite.
I got the new Yuri Herrera translation, hoping it'll be good. Igoni Barrett's Blackass was flawed but had some really interesting things going for it. In the middle of Alvaro Enrigue's Sudden Death, and I liked it at first, but it feels like a shitty pomo novel written by a semi-competent writer. Louise Erdich's book is the one of the few that came out so far that sounds decent.
I'm just waiting for the new Nell Zink at this point.
Adam Harris
Chase? Is that you?
Michael Rodriguez
This is the best book to be released this year, and is the most slept on book to be released this year. Some super positive reviews came out of it, The New Yorker having an incredibly strong one, but my god the fucking plebs who read this book and were too challenged by it is incredible.
Going through the amazon book reviews and the goodreads accounts talking about this, it's as if none of them have ever read a book challenging and innovative in language.
Sport of Kings has better use of language than anything I've read since Moby Dick (so, within the past like year). There were moments after reading certain passages I was in shock of their beauty, moments I had to put the book down because of how stunning certain events or scenes were--read this fucking book. Even though it's I dunno 600 pages or whatever, I read the whole thing in three days because I could not stop until I had gotten through it all. My whole copy of it I marked up and underlined and marginalia'd.
If it takes more convincing for you Veeky Forumsizens, it's in a similar format to IJ with characters' narratorial perspectives being expressed through their language i.e. the text takes the form of what vocabulary and syntax and dialect the character narrating would use.
I love it. Go buy it, chumps.
Jaxon Harris
you dont like the cover? I happen to think it's great. Unlike a lot of contemporary releases, it actually has something to do with the book and it carries DeLillo's themes of angels and art in his previous books. either way it's not a big deal, I hope you enjoy it.