... 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.
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!
ReplyDeleteI 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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