What are the best books published within the last six years?
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>>8156596
none, fuck off autismos
>>8156601
Thank you for contributing.
>>8156601
>angst implosion over absolutely nothing
>>8156596
Try this, OP.
>>8156601
Why do you even bother making posts like these? It isn't even a good bant, m8.
>>8156655
>all books published in the last 6 years are YA
Bro please
>>8156596
If you want sincerity, Ferrante is amazing.
Also, The Buried Giant, Brief History of Seven Killings
>>8156661
Fucking torture porn for faggots and moms. Some redeeming character development ruined by bad prose and absurd scenariosi almost put the book down when the psychotic handicap hating boyfriend threw him down the stairs, it made me fucking laugh out loud.
>>8156670
I'm a faggot and a masochist so i cant really disagree with you. I can't remember any bad prose--nothing special, but it never stood out as bad. I do agree there were some parts that felt so contrived and perfectly horrible. But at the same time, I've never felt so invested in a character, like I really knew everything about him, understood all his motivations, etc. I was also really impressed by her storytelling technique. It was like we were always just seeing a day in the life of the characters and you never know what is going to be a passing moment and what will turn out to be life-changing, just like in real life.
>>8156655
>I am making bad bants ironically
haha so based it is mad fun hey MDE 4 life bro Sam Hyde 4 prez
>>8156697
She wrote two very very likeable characters and developed them well, yet had so little respect for her readers that shemade Willem a plot device to push Jude to end his life.
Her depiction of male relationships was deeply lacking, her prose was flat, and her reliance on Jude's suffering to push the story forward struck me as amateurish.
here is a really good negative review that I mostly agree with:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/12/03/striptease-among-pals/
that said, I was engaged deeply with the book and read it quickly. I never felt apathetic towards the book, and I really liked the beginning when they were young friends in nyc. By the end I hated it with a burning passion, which is rare for me, i usually just put a book down if I disliked it.
>>8156706
>Her depiction of male relationships was deeply lacking
The friendship between the four main characters I though was spot on, it wasn't untilWillem and Jude get together that I have a problem. 1, a man doesn't live his whole life straight and then at 45 decide he'll be in a committed sexual relationship with another man, and 2, there's more to gay sex than anal; Jude's anguish over wanting to please Willem but getting triggered over having sex with himwere the worst part of the book for me.
Anyway, I don't typically read new fiction, but was very happy I took the chance on this one. Believe it or not this is pretty much the cream of the crop when it comes to books about gay characters, simply because they're actual three dimensional characters, not just "token gay character."
>>8156667
yeah more like last 20
On The Edge by Rafael Chirbes is easily one of the best novels of the 21st century so far.
>>8156596
Soumission
Can't and Won't
>actually reading books for plot and "likeable characters"
Why can't there be more dead fags
>>8157456
>Why can't there be more dead fags
There can be; kill yourself.
The Luminaries is good.
>the longest book and youngest author to win the Man Booker prize
It's the only book I've read from after six years ago, though.
>>8156655
>born in lewronggeneration xD
>>8157371
This is on my shortlist, may read it and skylark next before the last neapolitan novel
>>8156655
you really suck at this.
>>8156661
>>8156697
>>8156751
Basically the same experience with me--I don't usually read new novels, but this interested me for its supposed gothic overtones and whatnot in a modern setting. While there was a loooot of bullshit going on in their lives, the author captured perfectly the overwhelming despair of simple routines and professions and the ways we structure our lives around work and sex and friends. And what really got to me (especially at that fucking ending) was how she led me to emphasize with Jude's perspective that everyone's presence is like a prison around him, stopping him from just killing himself.
As for his relationship with Wilhelm, yes it felt contrived, but there was also something very potent to the vast scale of the characters's lives it provoked. It's rare to see an author take a single feeling and exploit it to this magnitude I guess.
