Current book thread got me thinking - what's the best recent-ish novel? Anything written since, eh...1990 shall we say?
For me it's easily The Unconsoled by Ishiguro.
Never liked Ian McEwan that much and finding Coetzee a bit meh.
Thoughts?
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i know it's a bit girly to like this
but i enjoyed Behind The Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Perhaps something by
Martin Amis
Wind Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami?
Or Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer?
Everything is Illuminated is good and all,
but i definitely think he tried to include far too many styles within the one novel.
A great achievement, but i think his style will refine in his output to come
yeah
I know what you mean - did make me laugh and cry in equal measure, though - great first effort, imho.
Anything by Murakami is worth reading, that man is a genius.
YUP
defo Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Simply amazing!
I was going to say exactly this
...still, very decent book.
Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
innit
House of Leaves
by Mark Z Danielewski
Please God read this book!
Actually don't, it has pretty much ruined everything I've read since as it all feels a bit meh by comparison.
Dunno
i just read a lot now and its all a bit tame.
I rather liked PJ Tracy - Want to Play
i still have a place in my heart for
Nick Horby - Hi Fidelity which is one of my all time faves
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Popular Music
by Mikael Niemi. Swedish book about Elvis and the Beatles and tarmac making it into the Arctic circle, involving much hilarity and sexual confusion. The Secret History is pretty good too.
i'm a bit of a Classics snob
so my frame of reference is a little restricted, but id go for either:
Will Self - The Book Of Dave
or
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
is that ok? Thanks.
Timoleon Vieta Come Home
by Dan Rhodes.
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy.
Possibly my favourite novel.
Struggling with Blood Meridian though...it's just relentlessly grim. Not that the Road isn't grim but.... it's a different league of grim:)
Really enjoyed No Country For Old Men though... So McCarthy gets my vote.