The Times 100 Books of the Decade

[Spleen]

http://entertainment.timesonline.co...ainment/books/book_reviews/article6914181.ece

How many have you read?

I was going through it looking for my favourite, and was outraged when I got to the top 10 and still hadn't seen it listed!!! But then I discovered it took the number 1 spot

 

[Shadowfax 10]

The book I was is not listed.

 

[Neutron66]

Three.

The Harry Potter, DaVinci Code, and The Road.

Shame whoever compiled the list doesn't care for sc-fi or I'm sure I'd have read a lot more on the list.

 

[sophiesizzle]

Why no heat magazine? Thats the closest I'll ever get to reading a what do you call it........book?

 

[GregCentauro]

I've read two: God Delusion and Plot Against America.

But ... Twilight? Harry Potter? Had the makers of CBeebies any say in compiling that list?

 

[BlueBalls]

I've read:

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
No Logo by Naomi Klein
A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I own (but haven't read):

Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner

I think of the ones I have read I perfered A Short History of Nearly Everything or Cloud Atlas. I enjoyed The Road, but I wasn't overly enthralled by it.

 

[mrtrebus]

I've read -

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight trans Simon Armitage
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (I apologise, everyone in the world had read it so I thought I'd give it a go. Awful! Awful! Awful! The worst book I've ever read! Appalling! Ineptly written trash!)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

mrtrebus has surprised himself with the number of books he's read on this list!

 

[jack123]

So the worst book I have ever had the displeasure to read (Da Vinci Code) gets a mention, but one of the greates novels ever to be translated into english, Bolano's 2666 (or any of his works for that matter) doesn't make the list???????

 

[BlueBalls]

So the worst book I have ever had the displeasure to read (Da Vinci Code) gets a mention, but one of the greates novels ever to be translated into english, Bolano's 2666 (or any of his works for that matter) doesn't make the list???????

I was surprised that didn't make the list. It's the only Bolano I've ever read but it's far better than some of the nonsense on that list and it also received tonnes of critical acclaim which makes its absence rather surprising. I mean come on Twilight and The Da Vinci Code? :wtf:

 

[Spleen]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Read this last week, unlike anything I've ever read before, really enjoyed it.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (I apologise, everyone in the world had read it so I thought I'd give it a go. Awful! Awful! Awful! The worst book I've ever read! Appalling! Ineptly written trash!)

I wanna **** it, but the fact is I read the entire book in two sittings, so it must have gripped me.

 

[titsrock]

Is there a way to see the entire list on one page? Scolling through 17 pages of a site...:*****:

 

[tiger1977]

I was glad to see Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed on there. Great book if you take the time to read it.

 

[tiger1977]

I was glad to see Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed on there. Great book if you take the time to read it.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Twilight was on that list.

So I quit reading.