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NY Times Bestseller List

Published November 21, 2006

The New York Times Bestseller List is certainly not a good indicator of quality books. My current leisure reading book, Under the Tuscan Sun, is completely inane. The movie is even worse. Anyway, I have my own list of books/authors that are worthy of reading:

MY LIST

edmund wilson
on the road
anna karenina
the brother’s karamozov
atlas shrugged, the fountainhead
george soros!
thomas aquinas, locke

I should probably stick to reading The New Yorker to hear about worthy literature. Under the Tuscan Sun is the most horrible piece of writing I have ever encountered, and a desparate attempt at a travelogue at best.

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The Devil Wears Prada

Published October 16, 2006
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My current leisure reading book-of-choice is The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. I am surpised to say that I am disappointed in the intellectual level of this book. So far, I have read about eight months of some girl’s experience at “a job that a million girls would die for”. I think the only reason I am finishing the book is that I have some pathos for the main character, since she was, after all, played by Anne Hathaway in the theaters. My next book choice will definitely be Bill Clinton’s memoire, My Life. I am very fascinated by our former president, for whatever reason. I read a feature article on him in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago, and I was instantly compelled to buy his book. I would prefer a paperback, if those are even made for presidential memoires. I just looked on Amazon. They do, and it costs $12.11. This is great.

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