Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 3:09 pm

wasn't summerland a proper follow up? not that i read it...

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

wow, senator. wow.

i'm not sure about studs lonegan. i love a lot of it because it takes place in chicago near areas i grew up. it's good though becuase it runs through history.

i'm almost positive you'll like jesus' son. read that one first.
it's also shorter.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

i need to buy a book for my trip - sounds like this Tim OBrien is the one to get.

fuse · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 5:09 pm

This guy has crack Wrote:

wasn't summerland a proper follow up? not that i read it...

Summerland was technically a juvenile book. Not as much gay sex.

south pacific · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 5:57 pm

Meh to that list.

Might as well throw The Bridges Of Madison County on the funeral pyre as well.

shmoo · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 6:11 pm

fuse Wrote:

Summerland was technically a juvenile book. Not as much gay sex.

There was also The Final Solution not too long ago. And The Yiddish Policemen's Union should be out in January 2007.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 7:37 pm

south pacific Wrote:

Meh to that list.

Might as well throw The Bridges Of Madison County on the funeral pyre as well.

yeah, might as well :roll:

it's not quite the oprah book club man. you're going to throw delillo in with that?

harry · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 9:24 pm

Morrison is pretty great... not my favorite cup of tea, but certainly a powerful and skilled novelist... her critical praise is a result of her talent, not her gender and race... that's nuts.

What this list does (although all of the Delillo is great) point out to me that the great fiction in English of the last 20 years is not American...

McEwan, Ishiguro, Julian Barnes, Colim Toibin, Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Patrick McCabe... and my current favorite, Magnus Mills... all better than most of this American list.

harry · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 9:25 pm

Oh and the australian Andrew MacGahan...

fuse · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 9:47 pm

shmoo Wrote:

fuse Wrote:

Summerland was technically a juvenile book. Not as much gay sex.

There was also The Final Solution not too long ago. And The Yiddish Policemen's Union should be out in January 2007.

Forgot about that one. It was OK. Just about 100 pages and seemingly more an exercise in genre writing. Still not a proper follow-up in my book.

Kerre Li (xix) · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 10:02 pm

I read Roth's the Human Stain and it was fucking awesome.
I don't disagree with any of these, I am a little surprised with how few I have read.

I want to have Jhumpa Lahiri's babies. She is too young to really have made a sigificant mark but damn girl. damn. She'll be up there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is still my all time favorite.

John Updike wrote a letter to me the other day at work. it was crazy.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 10:08 pm

Françoise Hardly Wrote:

Joan Updike wrote a letter to me the other day at work. it was crazy.

Is that Laura's new sobriquet?

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