From yesterday's Times newspaper.

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Books of the decade (The Times, 14/11/09): numbers 01–40 / numbers 81–100

I've seen the BBC adaptation of The Line of Beauty and it was just about a bunch of posh gays being posh and gay. A few years ago I really wanted to read a book by Marilynne Robinson, her most famous but I canna remember the title so obviously it's not that famous. Not sure if I still want to. I definitely want to read Jimmy Corrigan... or anything by Chris Ware.

That just about sums it up.
There's a woefully laughable scene that's meant to describe a night in a club on E - so trendy vicar-ishly bad it should have won some kind of an award. :lol:

Jimmy Corrigan gets my vote...I thought it was good and stretched the boundary of its [supposed] genre

Thursbitch, without a doubt.

Just finished reading The Line of Beauty, after probably six months of picking it up and throwing it down again. Not a pleasant character in the book, but I suppose that was the point. However, I did learn that the technical term for gay sex is 'bumshoving'.

my name is red

love pamuks stuff

but micheal donaghy collected poems? who inthename of god would put that on ANY list?

Alice Oswald's Dart is a perfectly crafted journey down that river, the sounds and asides of the water and the activity of its banks. A great long nature poem.

But i'm voting for England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive, a masterpiece of geography—the work of the founders of the environmental group Common Ground, it surveys and alphabeticises the entire content and essense of the country. Simply brilliant, and vice-versa.

That good, eh? I've had my eye on that for a long time. Think I'll ask Father Christmas...

Definitely. I got it when it came out and Waterstones were giving it away at half-price.

Cloud Atlas, although I didn't like the other book by David Mitchell that I read.

The Damned Utd

Great book.

I tried,. tried so hard with that.. read every word but left it feeling stupid.

Thankfully reading Snow which is completely engrossing (though I can only digest in small portions).

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, good and light hearted and an essential item when I'm going on my hols... a spot of Bryson :)

I've stopped reading Chris Ware because he makes me depressed. I think Jimmy Corrigan only made me slightly gloomy. On a similar note, I'd quite like to read the Jared Diamond book but presumably he goes on about how we are fucked and how I will spend my twilight years in queuing for grain and I don't know if I can take that.

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