Name one (1) good book written in the 21st century

So, among the 5 best you ever read?
So, better than the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's works, Racine's works, etc?

That's a really good book.

A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

I know that feeling but in the end, you don't really hate a single person, you hate an idea that you should hate (such as a middle class jew acting like a black guy from the streets).

of all the pop-rap out there you pick drake to hate? cmon now.

>cmon now.
Speaking like this angers me greatly

it's not even the authenticity thing, I get people trying to make money. Also being in between two social hierarchies and choosing to climb the more accessible one (ie: rap game/persona); after all not only is it more accessible to him, but to most people which makes that persona hold a bit more currency - at least for a while. No man, I just fucking hate Drake.
I dislike it all, but God, do I fucking hate Drake.

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Drake's the worst dude

Shadowbahn

Damn that's easy dog

Witz joshua cohen
The instructions adam levin
Canonball joseph mcelroy
Never let me up / the buried giant Kazuo Ishiguro

Yeah Drake is just really boring

Go*

flores by mario bellatin
that was easy

I havent read any of them but yea

He's also lyrically retarded

ghostwriters

partying all the the time and leasing ferraris sounds exhausting

Low effort b8

but i didnt speak like that
i typed it out

lol high school intellectual detected.

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Seiobo There Below

Crippled America

Welcome to the NHK and My Twisted World are the only 2 (two) worthwhile literate works of the 21st century.

Fay by Larry Brown

How can you shit on the 21st century when this is the century of James Patterson?

KEK
oh man I read a Patterson book once. Never again user, never again.

Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon

As When by Tom Raworth (RIP, the most wonderful man you could ever meet)

Incorporated territory: [guma] by Craig santos Perez

Citizen: an American lyric by Claudia Rankine

The transformation by Juliana Spahr

If you're too lazy to look, of course you won't find anything good. Try harder OP

On the edge by Rafael Chirbes

>not house of chains

book thief

The Road by McCarthy?

How to bomb the U.S. govt

Yeah but this is the only legitimately good fantasy in recent memory, so you should bait harder

This is the correct answer. The problem is that not many people read it or gave it the time it deserved before reviewing it. It's slowly catching on, though. Masterpiece.

>not midnight tides

Oblivion and the Pale King (DFW was really fucking refined by these two releases)
The Corrections (going to assume Freedom and Purity but I am just guessing)
The Instructions

Shove a dusty tome up your asshole, English major. Those are all overrated as fuck.

This.
The part about revenge is eye-opening.

>overrated as fuck.
It's surprising to me that someone who writes like this can't get in to Shakespeare.

wow that was easy

2666

Shit-tier YA fiction.

Ah, another member of the new meme trilogy.

Is this bait? I've read Shakespeare before, everyone has read Shakespeare. It's standard curriculum in high school. Do you really consider yourself some great intellectual because you read one of the most popular playwrights in history?

Worst book I've read in years, which is a shame because I was so excited for it.

>I could go on and on.

it was a good book before it was part of the meme trilogy, pseud

OVERRATED???

Is Donna Tartt a good author? Was thinking of reading The Goldfinch.

40% of it is dick drawings.

How to Bomb the US Govt

relative to today's literature, ya

relative to what was around when they were each written, nah (or who knows lots of shit got burnt)

Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

Drake sucks.
My friend likes him and I can't stand it but he's a middle class Jew from Toronto too so I guess he can't help it

Knausgaard's My Struggle
Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below
Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
Pynchon's Against the Day
Bolaño's 2666
Sada's Almost Never

Also worth mentioning
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Houellebecq's Submission

>88

+1 Knausgaard's My Struggle

What can you tell me that will make me want to read the book?

African-American "culture" in general is trash, so watching others attempt to replicate it is almost sad.

>Shakeapeare overrated
Some of his plays are mediocre, so this has some truth to it.
>Dante overrated
Yeah, no. Fuck off. The Divine Comedy is objectively the greatest work of literature.

The City of Bohane

am i pleb for not having read one (1) book from the 21st century?

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

>dainty italian mamma-miaing his way through hell
>does nothing but look at people and ask why they're being punished and gasp when they explain
>puts people he dislikes in hell and people he likes in heaven
>objectively the greatest work of literature

Hyped to the fucking MOON and completely, completely overrated. kys and >>>/bardo/

>objectively the greatest work of literature
people who make this statement should be referring to The Holy Bible. if not, you are reading the words of a pseud and probably in danger of being converted to Communism.

He writes some very fucking great melodies

Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth is surprisingly good.

He's actually a good writer when he isn't sperging out on religitards.

It's fascinating how specific they are with certain laws. Like how often were people cutting off each other's noses and flooding each other's fields that those two things had to be part of the first legal code in human history?

2666

Appreciate the Christ friends here. Hope they return and destroy the pol presence.

The Road.

It is beautiful. I will fight any Nigga who says otherwise.

The Thirteenth Tale

Pic related reads like the book DFW always wanted to write, and they'll probably teach it in schools one day

Underrated

Today's literature is garbage, wtf are you on about?

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I'm going through it at the moment (read about half) and I'm having a lot of problems with it... There are too many pop culture references thrown in in place of real originality.

Only good post in this thread

Because it mostly namedrops established Veeky Forumscore.

Broaden your horizons. Maybe pick up one of the dozens of books mentioned in this thread that you haven't read yet decided they were bad posts anyway.

Platform - Michel Houellebecq

one memorable character unfortunately he isn't the main character
the main characgter is kind of annoying

She's decent but read The Secret History instead.
>Borisfags

Austerlitz

>implying this is somehow bad

>first legal code in human history?
this pre-dates Hamurabi? things have changed since I was in school.

Haruhi Suzumia.
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