Anonymous
Post 05/01/2024 20:34     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Outlander
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 12:27     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
I hate to admit this b/c i feel like I"m admitting I"m old but I don't get reddit.

following the threads is challenging. And what's with the point system and why are there arrows?

sorry to hijack. Slightly. I am hoping oP gives me a straight answer. doing a s/o post will result in me being labeled old and being told to step away from the computer and drink some Geritol or something like that.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 12:17     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Anonymous wrote:No, not kite runner. That's popular junk like saying the Dan brown novels are good.


I like popular junk and can't read dan brown.

I liked Kite Runner but don't think it quite measures up to those mentioned on this thread.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 12:16     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Anonymous wrote:White Teeth

The Human Stain


Hated both of these books. Hated. I not at all arguing with you but I just don't like them. Now, I don't like the human stain author at all. He writes complicated men and one-dimensional women so I could be responding to his obvious misogyny. White teeth, I'll admit, I don't get so I don't viscerally hate that one. Just don't get it.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 10:55     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Anonymous wrote:Fifty Shades of Grey

And twilight
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 09:44     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
The Tiger's Wife
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 09:37     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Anonymous wrote:Middlesex


Good book, but I wouldn't call it a classic.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 09:30     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Bel Canto
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 02:24     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Lovely Bones
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 02:05     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Fifty Shades of Grey
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 00:20     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Ta-Nahesi Coates, Beautiful Struggle. Literary genius.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 00:19     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
I'll add a favorite that hasn't been mentioned: A Thousand Acres. I think that was pre-2000 though.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 00:18     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Middlesex, Life of Pi, Atonement and The Road were excellent. The Kite Runner was merely good by comparison. The first half (2/3?) of the Poisonwood Bible was exceptional, but the rest of the book just didn't measure up. Really unfortunate.

From the Reddit thread - loved loved loved Everything Is Illuminated, and really disliked A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2013 22:00     Subject: Re:s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Life of Pi
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Middlesex

Anonymous
Post 08/13/2013 21:55     Subject: s/o from Reddit -- Which novel published after the year 2000 will be considered a classic?
Anonymous wrote:No, not kite runner. That's popular junk like saying the Dan brown novels are good.



While I enjoyed The Kite Runner, I have to agree. It's mass market and will be denied by the "literary canon" crowd.