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10 Best Books of 2007

Posted: Nov 29, 07 3:56pm

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again in a couple of years. I've got a long waiting list.)

Any comments?

Fiction
MAN GONE DOWN By Michael Thomas.
OUT STEALING HORSES By Per Petterson.
THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES By Roberto Bolano.
THEN WE CAME TO THE END By Joshua Ferris.
TREE OF SMOKE By Denis Johnson.

Nonfiction
IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. By Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
LITTLE HEATHENS: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression. By Mildred Armstrong Kalish.
THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Toobin
THE ORDEAL OF ELIZABETH MARSH: A Woman in World History. By Linda Colley
THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century. By Alex Ross.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/books/review/10-best-2007.html

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Krista Stoker

Posted: Nov 30, 07 10:28am

DonCornell wrote:

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again i...

Darn! and Oh, Good!

The list grows on and on....

Happy Reading!

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greeneyes22

Posted: Nov 30, 07 2:20pm

DonCornell wrote:

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again i...

Tried to read "Little Heathens" but gave up on it. Just wasn't what I thought it would be.

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Sangi

Posted: Dec 1, 07 8:44am

DonCornell wrote:

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again i...

I'm never read also anyone for this books... maybe because i have 49???Or only because i think this list is for only EUA...

sangi

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dhooks24

Posted: Dec 1, 07 9:18am

DonCornell wrote:

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again i...

I have a hold for Tree of Smoke but have only heard of a couple of others. I miss Pages Magazine!

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MrsD

Posted: Apr 23, 08 3:07pm

DonCornell wrote:

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again i...

I read Little Heathens and was interested in the story of growing up in Iowa during the depression - because my mother in law lived that life. A book with a similar story is This House of Sky by Ivan Doig, except he grew up in Montana. Both give you a very good sense of "being there".

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Nick_Danger

Posted: Apr 23, 08 6:05pm

DonCornell wrote:

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again i...

Funny. I read a lot of non-fiction and haven't read any of these. (Probably won't, either)

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Hala

Posted: Apr 24, 08 12:41pm

DonCornell wrote:

The New York Times has published (online) its Ten Best Books of 2007. I haven't read any of them myself. (Ask me again i...

I just finished Tree of Smoke I liked it very much. It was an intense look at the final years of the Viet Nam war from the perspective of very believable characters. I also found myself thinking about Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) when reading some of the passages about the Colonel in Tree of Smoke. A good read!

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