100 Best Books of the Decade
Is led up by Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Certainly a deserving choice and one that would be very high on my list of the best of recent date. Find the full list here.
List courtesy of Reading Matters.
Wow! I should warn you that the list contains Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code relatively high up (above McEwan's Atonement). I think this tells us something about how to regard the list. Unlike most Catholic bloggers I'm aware of, I'm not a Dan Brown detractor. On the other hand, worse prose is really hard to come by--one needs to deliberately seek it out. But I do love the puzzles--even if some of them betray a suprising ignorance of settled fact--(thinking here of the pope that doesn't have to be Catholic--according to Brown.)
Later: They have been redeemed by this list of the five worst books of the decade. Dan Brown's DVC makes both lists, an interesting trick.
List courtesy of Reading Matters.
Wow! I should warn you that the list contains Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code relatively high up (above McEwan's Atonement). I think this tells us something about how to regard the list. Unlike most Catholic bloggers I'm aware of, I'm not a Dan Brown detractor. On the other hand, worse prose is really hard to come by--one needs to deliberately seek it out. But I do love the puzzles--even if some of them betray a suprising ignorance of settled fact--(thinking here of the pope that doesn't have to be Catholic--according to Brown.)
Later: They have been redeemed by this list of the five worst books of the decade. Dan Brown's DVC makes both lists, an interesting trick.
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