Comments on: My Best of the Decade: Are We Laughing Yet? http://blog.vromans.com/my-best-of-the-decade-are-we-laughing-yet Independent Bookstore Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Why I Read What I Read | Hometown Pasadena http://blog.vromans.com/my-best-of-the-decade-are-we-laughing-yet/comment-page-1#comment-9050 Why I Read What I Read | Hometown Pasadena Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:38:40 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1061#comment-9050 [...] week, I posted my list of favorite books of the last ten years.  On Facebook, where this blog is syndicated, one reader commented that she hadn’t heard of [...] [...] week, I posted my list of favorite books of the last ten years.  On Facebook, where this blog is syndicated, one reader commented that she hadn’t heard of [...]

]]> By: Why I Read What I Read http://blog.vromans.com/my-best-of-the-decade-are-we-laughing-yet/comment-page-1#comment-9040 Why I Read What I Read Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:58:28 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1061#comment-9040 [...] week, I posted my list of favorite books of the last ten years.  On Facebook, where this blog is syndicated, one reader commented that she hadn’t heard of [...] [...] week, I posted my list of favorite books of the last ten years.  On Facebook, where this blog is syndicated, one reader commented that she hadn’t heard of [...]

]]> By: Sherri http://blog.vromans.com/my-best-of-the-decade-are-we-laughing-yet/comment-page-1#comment-8563 Sherri Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:59:56 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1061#comment-8563 Hi, Here's my five favorites that I can think of right now: All the Living by C.E. Morgan No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead Smonk by Tom Franklin and I also loved Oscar Wao Hi,
Here’s my five favorites that I can think of right now:
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
Smonk by Tom Franklin
and I also loved Oscar Wao

]]> By: jennifer http://blog.vromans.com/my-best-of-the-decade-are-we-laughing-yet/comment-page-1#comment-8527 jennifer Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:00:43 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1061#comment-8527 My five fave books (of all time/slash 10/2009) are in no particular order... A Prayer For Owen Meany The Brothers K I Know This Much is True (I think i get to throw in The Hour I First Believed) Rain of Gold Interpreter of Maladies I loved Oscar Wao, too but not sure if it makes my top 5. My five fave books (of all time/slash 10/2009) are in no particular order…

A Prayer For Owen Meany
The Brothers K
I Know This Much is True (I think i get to throw in The Hour I First Believed)
Rain of Gold
Interpreter of Maladies

I loved Oscar Wao, too but not sure if it makes my top 5.

]]> By: Tina Maura Albee http://blog.vromans.com/my-best-of-the-decade-are-we-laughing-yet/comment-page-1#comment-8511 Tina Maura Albee Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:02:01 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1061#comment-8511 Re your question: "is it possible to hate something and think it’s well-written and worthwhile at the same time?" I found Atonement excruciating to read because of the sheer injustice of the events portrayed, but I think it is a brilliant book and I am glad I read it - twice, in fact. It was less painful the second time because I knew what was coming. (Hate is the wrong word for this situation, however.) Re your question: “is it possible to hate something and think it’s well-written and worthwhile at the same time?”

I found Atonement excruciating to read because of the sheer injustice of the events portrayed, but I think it is a brilliant book and I am glad I read it – twice, in fact. It was less painful the second time because I knew what was coming. (Hate is the wrong word for this situation, however.)

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