Comments on: Best of the 2000s: The 15 Best Books http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/02/best-of-the-2000s-the-15-best-books/ A blog for the media generation. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:10:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jayme http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/02/best-of-the-2000s-the-15-best-books/#comment-34 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:40:52 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=253#comment-34 Being busy may be a lame excuse but it’s a true one, and I can completely relate. The list of movies I’ve seen this year is depressingly short. But yes, I definitely recommend Special Topics, it’s one of those books that got a lot of hype but deservedly so, I think.

]]> By: ulyssesworkman http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/02/best-of-the-2000s-the-15-best-books/#comment-33 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:41:30 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=253#comment-33 Special Topics in Calamity Physics has been on my to read list forever, I’m glad to hear its not as gimmicky as I feared.

And yeah, this list is definitely more dude-heavy than I would have liked. For me, its more because I had trouble finding the time to read much of anything that wasn’t assigned in college (which is a lame excuse, but there’s a definite early 2000s bent to this one)

]]> By: Jayme http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/02/best-of-the-2000s-the-15-best-books/#comment-32 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:04:50 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=253#comment-32 I like a lot of your choices but I don’t think you can have a best-of-2000s list without Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl!

I’d also add Lionel Shriver’s The Post-Birthday World and Alicia Erian’s Towelhead to the list for consideration. Only two books by the ladyfolk? More women have written amazing novels in the past ten years than that. :)

]]> By: ulyssesworkman http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/02/best-of-the-2000s-the-15-best-books/#comment-27 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:17:48 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=253#comment-27 I don’t know if one screenplay = squandering his gift, when you factor in the two excellent novels, the nonfiction book, and the short story collection he did in the interim

And I’m pretty sure the last Harry Potter book is called Going Rogue…

]]> By: theradiocure http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/02/best-of-the-2000s-the-15-best-books/#comment-26 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:19:41 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=253#comment-26 thanks for the heads up on harry potter. don’t know how a mistake like that got past two nerds.

]]> By: Adam Smith http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/02/best-of-the-2000s-the-15-best-books/#comment-25 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:16:18 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=253#comment-25 OMGz NO TWILIGHT?!?!?!!?!!?1/1/1ELEVEN

But seriously, big ups for including A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius–one of my favorite books, period. It’s a real shame that Dave Eggars then squandered his gift and wrote the screenplay for the year’s worst film (“Away We Go”).

Just a heads-up, the final two novels in the Harry Potter series were “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”–not “Order of the Phoenix” and “Deathly Hallows”.

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