Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2003

also released that year: Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter In Calcutta and Iain Duncan Smith's The Devil's Tune.

i have only read cosmopolis which aside from the embarrassing club interlude is my favorite delillo i've read

We Need To Talk About What a Fascist Moron Lionel Is

DeLillo, the only one I’ve read

hahaha NV were you less attuned to literary wrong 'uns before the 00's?

0 read
1 unread (oxfam copy of Quicksilver sat waiting for me to find the 3 months necessary to read it)

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

I gave up on Fortress of Solitude on the chapter written like a Black preacher's oratory.

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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.

first one in decades i'd read none of, which i'm sure means nothing at all

Time Traveler's Wife was one that I thought I enjoyed reading and then realized in retrospect I hated.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2004