Friday, January 19, 2007

Maxine takes a look ...

... at Metacritic's book choice. God knows it's a better list than the UK Bookseller's Top 10, but I confess to some reservations. Ed Champion, reviewing the Murakami for The Inquirer, found it underwhelming, and I am one of those who thinks Cormac McCarthy is a pretentious gas bag. Actually, about the only one I'd go out of my way to read is the Pelecanos.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:48 PM

    I'm looking forward to reading no. 10, "Intuition", Allegra Goodman's well-received novel about science, when it is out in paperback. Also, no.1., "Suite Francaise" has done really well over here; I shall buy it for Cathy at some point as she's going to be studying history at A level next year, and it sounds a brilliant book from all accounts. Probably there are some "pretentious" entries in the list, there usually are in these efforts. I thought the metacritic approach quite fun, though. Naturally they wouldn't look twice at any of the titles in the UK bestseller list!

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  2. I have heard good things, Maxine, about the Allegra Goodman, and by all accounts Suite Francaise is very good. I wonder that anyone would look twice at the titles on the UK bestseller list.

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