Oi /lit/, lets talk some books from the last ten or so years that you think deserve some recognition.
I'm offering up Skippy Dies by Paul Murray. Great book by an Irish author. Some describe it as Hogwarts with drugs and corruption instead of magic. Related characters, very funny, beautiful prose and wide vocabulary. (Can also recommend his other two novels, An Evening Of Long Goodbyes and The Mark and the Void, which came out earlier this year.)
Close runner up would be & Sons by David Gilbert, about a reclusive Salinger-esque author on the verge of being on his death bed, set in Manhattan.
What've youse got?
i thought the luminaries by eleanor catton was pretty damn good.
I've been singing the praises of David Rakoff for years, very funny essayist who died way too soon.
I friggin love Skippy dies. And it's the first time in years I've heard of it.
>>7322778
it surprises me just how much it's unrepresented in online discussion. i thought places like reddit would have absolutely eaten it up, but alas, i can't find a single discussion of it anywhere online. i'd love to see more people on this board give it a crack, i'm sure they'd find many redeeming qualities in it.
>>7322785
I just ordered it, trusting your recommendation anon.
Mr Peanut
You have to be a grown up to enjoy it though
>>7322785
Ordered it too.
Admittedly not sure it's my kind of thing, but I bet my girlfriend will like it if I don't. $4 on Better World Books btw.
>>7322778
I read it.
IIRC it's David Cameron's favourite book.
OP you're an idiot, Murray is pleb trash. He's not funny, and his humour relies on banter and banana skins.
I'm about to read Evening of Long Goodbyes because it seems like an interesting idea for a plot but I don't have very high expectations.
>>7323746
I laughed out loud throughout Skippy Dies.
>>7323755
Then I feel nothing but pity for you. You are undermining British and Irish literary fiction with your stupidity.
>>7323738
i believe he chose it as a summer read or some crap, and it made news.
>>7323746
if you find him to be pleb trash, why are you bothering delving into his past works? try The Mark and the Void, you may be pleasantly surprised.
you don't always have to have your head up the ass of high lit authors and ignoring (yet still reading?) anything else that might be "pleb trash", it's good to read more recent works sometimes.
>>7323773
do you not laugh at anything modern? have you no soul?
