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Originally Posted by ubermensch
At least 'The Catcher in the Rye' is an amazing book, worthy of modern acclaim. It's a pity that a lot of writers have used it as a template since its publication. Some of the books sold in Fopp are total pish, lapped up by stupid art students and people wanting to be cool. I hate the majority of modern writers (pretty much from the 80s onwards, with some exceptions). Whereas writing used to be a sort of progressive art, i.e. many 'renaissances' over and over again, it doesn't seem to be going anywhere really. Nothing really strikes me as being original anymore.
I remember reading 'Generation X' by Coupland and thinking it was a really great book, but all the books of his that I've read since have been total fucking dirge.
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nobody reads books to be cool. surely.
personally i really like a lot of writing since the eighties; pratchett, foer, murakami, (haruki... ryu is good too), andrew crumey are fairly original in my opinion.
since we have a little coupland appreciation thread running parallel to attempts at social satire: although i'd agree none of coupland's books match generation x, only one or two i thought were boring (elenor rigby, shampoo planet). the others i really enjoyed.