Even though I only chose it for our group, and didn't ACTUALLY write it, I am still enormously pleased to report that The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay has ended up in our Top 3 books of all time.
It is clearly about more than picking a book that will score highly - the most important thing for me in a book is one that will provide intellectually stimulating enjoyment. Honest.
But a Top 3 book - I wanted to cry when I heard the news, but I stayed strong. After all, I am currently growing a beard, so I have to be a man.
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All our top 10 books seem to hit the mark in terms of "intellectual enjoyment". What's more interesting (?) is that if we look at the top "5" ( Murakami, Chabon, Mills, Michell, Clarke & Barnes )then we find virtually all of the authors have a fairly explicit intent to write stories rather than "literature".
ReplyDelete( Although it's probably more fair to say they want to return story-telling to the fold and wouldn't recognise a distinction anyway )
So whilst we might like the intellectual gloss we seem really to favour a cracking yarn?