Books of the Decade
In the issue of December 14 Sam Anderson gives his Novel of the Decade Award to The Brief Wondrous Life of Qscar Wao and names five other titles we'll still be reading in 2020:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Interesting choices. Any comments?
2 comments:
The Da Vinci Code??? Good grief. I certainly won't be reading it again, in 2020 or any other time. But yes, yes and yes to Pullman, MCarthy and Chabon. Haven't read The Tipping Point.
If I was going to rate Pullman it wouldn't be for The Amber Spyglass. I thought The Golden Compass was brilliant, The Subtle Knife very good, but The Amber Spyglass ranked as "disappointment of the year". Felt like I was being beaten over the head by the author's prejudices (ie why didn't he just write a pamphlet?)and the story got lost somewhere in that process.
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