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Bestselling Books of 2008

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by swenk, Jan 15, 2009.

  1. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    Hah! Playing for Pizza is in the queue, and the only one I've read is No. 50, The Alchemist, which was written in 1988.
     
  2. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Poe wrote a book about molluscs, a project taken for little purpose other than drinking money, and it became a high seller and critical smash.

    It would never have made this list.
     
  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Read two - "Eat This, Not That" and playing for "Playing For Pizza."

    Oddly enough, my 11 year old son has also read two.
     
  4. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    Just another reason to weep for the Great American Novel.

    Catch-22 remains the most recent example.
     
  5. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Yes, I seem to have come to the same conclusion. :D
     
  6. Eh ... Tom Perrotta seems to have the stuff. "Little Children" came about as close as I've ever seen in print - "American Beauty" is the best film example - of capturing modern suburban soccer mom and dad angst.

    David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" is supposedly up there, as well, though I've never tackled it. And I wouldn't count out Jonathan Lethem quite yet. "Cold Mountain" was a pretty damned big accomplishment, as well, by Charles Frazier.

    Art and commerce seem to have taken off in different directions at some point. But there still seems to be a niche for art, and a lucrative niche for the men and women at the top.
     
  7. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Rosenberg's gonna be pissed that his book isn't there...
     
  8. EE94

    EE94 Guest

    The Kite Runner is a better book than it was a movie
     
  9. His book is very, very good. And selling extremely well, from what I understand, for being primarily aimed at men.
     
  10. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    More than ever.

    I'll have to take a crack at the Wallace.

    UPDATE: Third in line, at the library. Given their liberal renewal policies, it could take six months. I can wait.
     
  11. DirtyDeeds

    DirtyDeeds Guest

    Loved Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude but have not read the most recent one. Does anyone recommend others by him? And I thought Cold Mountain was outstanding.
    From this list, I have "read" Eat This, Not That, and I own Marley & Me but have not gotten to it yet.
     
  12. PopeDirkBenedict

    PopeDirkBenedict Active Member

    The Appeal and Outliers are the only ones I read. Both are far from being their author's best work.
     
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