Sunday, January 10, 2010

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:

Alexia said...

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.

Andrew said...

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.