I'll give you a top five. I only read about 25 books so the top 10 isn't necessarily "good".
Tom Send a noteboard - 20/12/2010 07:26:41 PM
In order, from the absolute best to the just great:
1. The Civil War (3 volumes), by Shelby Foote
2. The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto
3. Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
4. ????????? ????? ????????, by Viktor Pelevin (usually translated as The Sacred Book of the Werewolf)
5. 1776 by David McCollough
Only one of these was completely fiction, though Red Plenty was a fictionalized re-telling of actual events. This is likely to change for 2011, as I plan to read a great deal of fiction.
An honorary mention goes to:
Le Rouge et Le Noir by Stendhal, because I'm about 40 pages from the end (due to family visiting for the holidays, I haven't been able to read at all for about five days) - had I finished it already it would have made the list, probably at spot number 3.
1. The Civil War (3 volumes), by Shelby Foote
2. The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto
3. Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
4. ????????? ????? ????????, by Viktor Pelevin (usually translated as The Sacred Book of the Werewolf)
5. 1776 by David McCollough
Only one of these was completely fiction, though Red Plenty was a fictionalized re-telling of actual events. This is likely to change for 2011, as I plan to read a great deal of fiction.
An honorary mention goes to:
Le Rouge et Le Noir by Stendhal, because I'm about 40 pages from the end (due to family visiting for the holidays, I haven't been able to read at all for about five days) - had I finished it already it would have made the list, probably at spot number 3.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
What are your top ten reads of 2010?
- 20/12/2010 12:07:54 PM
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I'll give you a top five. I only read about 25 books so the top 10 isn't necessarily "good".
- 20/12/2010 07:26:41 PM
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Let's see, this is an interesting exercise...
- 20/12/2010 08:48:20 PM
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I enjoyed Mahfouz, but I agree the translation wasn't stellar
- 20/12/2010 11:27:39 PM
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I read a Dutch translation, so presumably not the same one as yours. 
- 21/12/2010 06:38:29 PM
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- 21/12/2010 06:38:29 PM
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Okay, have to add Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian in there somewhere, see my review. *NM*
- 29/12/2010 09:41:22 PM
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Hmm.(New)
- 21/12/2010 02:21:40 AM
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You have to be the only person I've ever met who prefers Erikson's first book over the second.
- 21/12/2010 06:42:40 PM
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Well.
- 21/12/2010 09:19:42 PM
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Re: I'm with you on Felisin. Boring.
- 25/12/2010 12:45:03 AM
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Yeah. Whenever I think of DH- it's always the Chain of Dogs.
- 26/12/2010 09:47:49 PM
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Re: Yeah. Whenever I think of DH- it's always the Chain of Dogs.
- 26/12/2010 11:49:49 PM
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850? So you have the best 200 pages left? *NM*
- 27/12/2010 11:55:21 AM
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Hey hey hey no.
- 27/12/2010 02:07:38 PM
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My top eight in no particular order, as well as my two most disappointing books for the year.
- 21/12/2010 06:19:00 AM
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