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Recap, 2010!
Worst Fiction 2010: 10. The Three Weissmanns of Westport – Cathleen Schine 9. The Scent of Rain and Lightning – Nancy Pickard 8. How to Read the Air – Dinaw Mengestu 7. Hester – Paula Reed 6. All That Follows – Jim Crace 5. The Instructions -Adam Levin 4. The Privileges – Jonathan Dee 3. [...]
Worst Nonfiction, 2010!
If cynicism was the underpinning animus of the Worst Fiction of 2010, it was the emblazoned fife and snare drum coronation anthem of the Worst Nonfiction. I’ve been reading books a long time now, and I can’t remember a lineup of nonfiction this bad since the 1970s. Not bad in terms of literary quality, although [...]
Worst Fiction, 2010!
It would be audacious to offer a common link for so many works conceived in so many different environments over so many years, and yet offer it I do! I read a great deal of fiction in 2010 and watched with keen interest as some books succeeded and others failed. I sifted not only matter [...]
Once Again!
Twice as many books this year, so a handy summary is in order! Worst Fiction of 2009: 10. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer 9. The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson and Martin Dugard 8. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell 7. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem 6. Nobody Move [...]
Worst Books of 2009! Fiction!
2009 is finally winding down, and the End of Days clamor regarding the death of paper-and-ink books has never been louder. The Amazon Kindle is (if you believe their publicity statements) selling more than any other physical item in the history of the human race, and smack-dab in the entrance way of every single Barnes [...]
The Worst Books of 2008!
Hard to believe another entire year has passed since the last ‘Worst of’ list, but there’s our emblematic elephant-crap picture to prove it! That picture symbolizes not just what’s awful and redolently crappy, but the worst of what’s awful and redolently crappy – the books listed here. As always, there was a great deal of [...]
The Worst Books of 2007!
The year 2007 rushes headlong to its end, and we here at Stevereads are borne along. Every day brings more and more year-end tasks to be undertaken, and although this is seemly, it detracts from our great enterprise here, that is, talking about books. In part, those two forces combine at this time of year, [...]
The Worst Books of 2006!
We here at Stevereads are as annoyed as anybody (OK, maybe a smidge moreso, but only because we annoy so dang EASILY) by the trite nature of most year-end year-in-books summary pieces. Such pieces only tend (unintentionally, one presumes) to highlight the fact that their writers spent the year doing Sudoku and are only copying [...]
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