Comtemporary Fiction

[theoptimist]

Purely out of interest, what is your favourite piece of contemporary fiction?

This is my genre of choice. Hopefully I will see some familiar titles and some new ones.

 

[Ms.]

The Virgin Suicides

Oh do buy this book

 

[theoptimist]

I've already read it. It wasn't bad!

 

[Ms.]

*gasp*

wasn't bad

Well i see that you like Chuck so I'd recommend Invisible Monsters if you have not read it. Though really he's a pretty dire author

 

[theoptimist]

Why do you say he's a dire author? I think Chuck Palahniuk's writing style is really good!

I have read Invisible Monsters, I thought it was fab!

 

[Ms.]

His sentences were so poorly constructed while passable if the ideas are entertaining is dreadful when it's same 'crazy' spiel over and over. I enjoyed Invisible Monsters because of it's pacing I was never distracted by structure. He seems like a one trick pony in how he writes; I stopped reading after choke so he may have changed.

I suggest Middlesex (a book chuck ruined for me!)

I need to read more contemp fiction

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

I really loved Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

The Virgin Suicides has already been mentioned, but I do like that novel. Also another pleasure read for me is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I know that some of you will snicker at that!

This thread has made me realize that I read more historical fiction than I thought.

 

[ions]

I really loved Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

What she said.