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What modern books (last twenty/thirty years) will be in the classics section in years

  • 22-11-2007 12:24AM
    #1
    Lands Leaving
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    Any true classics recently enough? I'd say we'll see American Psycho, but I'm finding it hard to think of many others - any ideas?


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    the da vinci code.....


  • #3
    Lands Leaving
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    Oh dear god no. anything but that.


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    Karlusss
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    Vernon God Little? Kafka On The Shore? Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, definitely, and maybe some of his other books too. These things seem to canonise pretty fast.


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    John
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    Anything by Cormac McCarthy. I just got into him and my word is he good! Not only does he spin a good yarn but his style is brilliant too.


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    Mr. Bones
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    John wrote: »
    Anything by Cormac McCarthy. I just got into him and my word is he good! Not only does he spin a good yarn but his style is brilliant too.

    Same here, just got into McCarthy and can't wait to read the rest of his work.

    Other classics would be Amongst Women by John McGahern, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy & most of J.M. Coetzee's work too.


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  • #7
    buck65
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    A confederacy of dunces - John Kennedy Toole

    Life of Pi - Jann martel

    Miss Smilla's feeling for snow - Peter Hoeg

    Underworld - Don de Lillo (maybe Libra too)

    American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

    A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

    All of Carver's short stories.


  • #8
    eclectichoney
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    Richard Ford's The Sportswriter

    Don DeLillo's White Noise

    Paul Auster's Moon Palace

    and probably Atonement by Ian McEwan


  • #9
    ZorbaTehZ
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    Definitely Life of Pi, and Midnight's Children too, I would think.


  • #10
    Floyd Soul
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    Some of Stephen Kings work like The Stand, The Shining, and IT, nd the Harry Potter Series.

    I haven't read anything else from the last thirty years that immediately strikes me as classic worthy - but if anyone has any recommendations throw them my way.


  • #11
    Lands Leaving
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    Floyd Soul wrote: »
    Some of Stephen Kings work like The Stand, The Shining, and IT, nd the Harry Potter Series.

    I haven't read anything else from the last thirty years that immediately strikes me as classic worthy - but if anyone has any recommendations throw them my way.

    dont get me wrong, i loved the stand, and the dark tower series was brilliant, but its not classic material, just very well written pop fiction, it does nothing innovative. same goes for potter. to be a classic a book has to say something that hasn't been said before, and hp lovecraft did kings style before him.

    also can I add slaughterhouse 5 to that list


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  • #12
    Eoin
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    "Bonfire of the Vanities" seems to already be considered a classic. Now, I really enjoyed the book, but still a little unsure why it seems to be considered that good. Was is the first novel of its kind?


  • #13
    Tree
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    probably a selection of haruki murakami's work


  • #14
    arctic_fox
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    Tree wrote: »
    probably a selection of haruki murakami's work

    having seen the earlier comment of "Kafka on the shore" I was gonna post this last comment but failing that maybe thing sin the style of "no logo"

    Maybe it a little over the time limit of 30 years but "fear and loathing", "the rum diaries" and other Hunter Thompson stuff will be there...are they classics already?


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