I love books, and I love the "best of" lists that come out at the end of each year. Amazon.com’s worthwhile blog Omnivoracious: Hungry for the Next Great Book has a useful round-up of the recent NYT "Top 10 Books of 2007" list. I’ve heard of all of them. I’ve read none.
- Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
- The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley
- The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
I’ll be posting my ’07 book roundup in a few weeks.
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Apologies for the light posting, a stomach bug has taken hold. Fear not, new, original content is coming soon to a blog near you.
I would recommend the Nine by Jeffrey Toobin, but only if you are a liberal who believes in discovered rights. Toobin is flat wrong on some of the Constitutional theory underlying Thomas’s jurisprudence.
You know, I meant to get around to reading Imperial Life, but I never did. (Part of it may have been that I simply refused to accept that such gross incompetence as described in the book could actually be the reality in Iraq.) I’ll have to pick it up over break.
And while we’re on the subject of “original content is coming soon to a blog near you,” you’re not the only one recovering from a malaise. I’m looking for some new Stamp-of-Idiocy material, too, so hopefully my next post will come soon (and be a good bit more entertaining than the last few, to boot).
I tried, tried, tried real hard, to live Tree of Smoke. But it’s typical of a novel written by a poet. Beautiful, long, evocative and nearly no plot. The pretty words were not enough to carry me beyond page 150.
um . . . didn’t you forget “My Startup Life”?!?
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