also released that year: Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter In Calcutta and Iain Duncan Smith's The Devil's Tune.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 22 October 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
i have only read cosmopolis which aside from the embarrassing club interlude is my favorite delillo i've read
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 22 October 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
We Need To Talk About What a Fascist Moron Lionel Is
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 October 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
DeLillo, the only one I’ve read
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 22 October 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
hahaha NV were you less attuned to literary wrong 'uns before the 00's?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 22 October 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
0 read1 unread (oxfam copy of Quicksilver sat waiting for me to find the 3 months necessary to read it)
― koogs, Friday, 22 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
I've read few of these and all I remember about the few I've read is that "Curious Incident" is bad so don't vote for that
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 22 October 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
It's the only one I've read and I don't remember it being that bad, not that I'm going to vote for it.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 22 October 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Daniel_Rf do you not always include the booker winners? just noticed life of pi wasn't in the 2002 poll (not that i have strong feelings about it or the booker prize in general).
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 22 October 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
Read half a dozen of these. I wonder how the Haddon has aged? Didn't love or hate it at the time. Cosmopolis was completely dead on the page for me (which may well have been DeLillo's goal ofc). Millennium People is fine late Ballard but you can sense him tiring. Elizabeth Costello is a pretty brutal read. It's Coetzee at his most provocative I think. I might vote for that.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 22 October 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
Is the Sjon the Blue Fox? That's a great little book, albeit more hallucination than book.Just seen the Lethem. I think I'll go for that.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 22 October 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
I'm completely striking out here, but I've thought about reading "Fortress of Solitude" so many times I almost feel like I've read it.
― o. nate, Friday, 22 October 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
To soothe my ego, I will say that I would've voted for "My Life as a Fake" by Peter Carey if it had been listed.
― o. nate, Friday, 22 October 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
I gave up on Fortress of Solitude on the chapter written like a Black preacher's oratory.
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 22 October 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 25 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
i had only read the Curious Incident and The Time-Traveller's Wife and while they were both readable I'm pretty sure far better books came out that year. I think I started Fortress of Solitude and didn't get far, though I've enjoyed other Lethem.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
first one in decades i'd read none of, which i'm sure means nothing at all
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
Time Traveler's Wife was one that I thought I enjoyed reading and then realized in retrospect I hated.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2004
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link