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Joseph:
I'd say the handling of the Dune universe done by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert will leave those books less likely to be remembered in the long run, if anything. They are certainly severely cheapening his magnificent creation.
Johnny C:
Man. If the only books from the last thirty years that anybody reads a hundred years from now are from horror, fantasy or thriller writers, the fury from my rage will awaken my frozen brain from its cryogenically-induced slumber and I will make my robot-slave body start beating the shit out of people reading books from the Wheel Of Time series.
YET THIS IS THE EXACT DIRECTION THIS THREAD SEEMS TO BE GOING
Lines:
Most of the things I've read lately that I can see being canonized are mostly short stories and none of those are fantasy/horror/thriller, such as Ira Sher's The Man in the Well. There is good fiction out there that isn't a part of any of those genres and if that's all the past century is remembered for, I'll be quite sad. I can't add too much on actual books, though, because I've been mostly reading things that are already classics.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 02 Dec 2007, 14:17 ---Man. If the only books from the last thirty years that anybody reads a hundred years from now are from horror, fantasy or thriller writers, the fury from my rage will awaken my frozen brain from its cryogenically-induced slumber and I will make my robot-slave body start beating the shit out of people reading books from the Wheel Of Time series.
YET THIS IS THE EXACT DIRECTION THIS THREAD SEEMS TO BE GOING
--- End quote ---
Sorry if I really only like Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Satire that happens to be lumped into those categories (which Vonnegut falls into to an extent). If I didn't find real-life boring, I'd probably read more plain old fiction. I read a sizeable amount of older things which are probably deemed as classical literature. And I guess O'Reilly could count as a memorable author. But the point is, there's not a lot of good books left that don't fall into those categories (and I'm assuming we're talking books written in the last century or so).
And for the record I didn't like Dune or The Wheel of Time.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 02 Dec 2007, 18:48 ---there's not a lot of good books left that don't fall into those categories (and I'm assuming we're talking books written in the last century or so).
--- End quote ---
You are wrong. Seriously.
Here are books you need to read. Promptly.
Nicholson Baker - The Fermata
Martin Amis - Money
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Colson Whitehead - The Intuistionist (I guess this could be sort of maybe argued as a science-fiction-ish thing though)
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (Parts of it are definitely science-fiction, so it would make a good stepping stone, maybe)
All of those should be books which you can get in to, since they have decent fantastical moments, and don't come across as narratives of everyday life at all.
After that, or before that, or whenever, read The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields. If you have learned to appreciate things which are worth reading, you will love this.
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