October 24, 2005
Everybody's Got a List
And now Time has one, too. I usually don't have much comment on these "top books" lists (and I have even fewer comments for top movie lists, since I see so few movies), but this one caught my eye. The list spans from the mind-numbingly b-o-r-i-n-g (i.e. White Noise ), to obnoxiously overwritten shlock (see, Tropic of Cancer -- and yes, I know it's a classic, but has anyone actually finished that swill and liked it? I doubt it) to books that are actually worth reading (I especially liked Atonement).
But I am at a loss to explain the omission of anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. C'mon folks, nothing? It doesn't even have to be One Hundred Years of Solitude (and Good Lord, I had no idea that was an Oprah pick until I looked up the URL on amazon), but really, nothing? When the New York Times Book Review says of your book that it is, "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race," you may be onto something.
Posted by Kitty at October 24, 2005 03:11 PM
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