/book/ - Modern fiction

Name: Anonymous 2009-05-30 19:55

Are there any 'great' modern books that aren't about drugs?

Name: Anonymous 2009-05-30 22:15

>>1
Ultravioleta

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-01 21:14

the stranger

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-02 23:57

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-03 0:34

The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall.

Most of Steven King.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-03 9:57

>>5
>Steven King
>aren't about drugs
LOLOLO HAD TO MENTION THE DRUG ADDICT AUTHOR

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-03 11:02

>>6
Simply because he takes drugs doesn't mean his drugs are about drugs. He rarely mentions them really, sometimes not throughout the course of a book.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-03 11:11

>>7
Er...meant to say his books are about drugs, not his drugs are about drugs. That makes no fucking sense at all.
Probably that joint I've smoked.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-03 11:17

fuckin christ this thread is horrible

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-03 16:16

>>8
In "On Writing" by Stephen King, he says he wrote himself into many of his stories, and that, yes, they came out to be metaphorical of his drug addiction.
Not intentionally, mind you, but they are there. When looking back, he saw the connections.
If you don't read very deeply, you can miss that whole field and not worry about it.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-03 18:12

>>10
So it was a metaphor for something he never mentions in the book.
Not a drugs book then

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-04 3:14

>>11
Right, not literally about drugs. It's just that, when I read a book, I wonder what the connection the author has to it, what's reflective of the time, and other meanings that can be derived. More habit than decision. Other readers might passively absorb books like they were watching tv or something. Depends on the reader.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-04 4:18

>>12
Even though I knew of hip personal life, i didn't automatically think he could only write about it.
I also didn't class all his literature as "drugs" writings simply because i knew if took them. The same way i didn't class all of Poe's stuff that way. Depends on the reader.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-04 4:19

>>13
That if should have been a he. Fucking predictive text

Modern fiction

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