Reply to: Book of the decade

[RichardCranium]

Janet & John - but one day I hope to finish it and see how it ends.

With Janet, Timothy, Rebecca and John's house, car and pension.

HTH

[BrilloPad]

Janet & John - but one day I hope to finish it and see how it ends.

[TriggerHippy]

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Definitely the best book of the decayed.

This should just edge that out

[RichardCranium]

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Definitely the best book of the decayed.

[OwlHoot]

23 posts and no one's mentioned the great Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code yet. Excellent book.

Didn't BlackenedBiker mention some title like that earlier in the thread?

He's right too - I'm having a heck of a job finding "The DaVinci Code Dan Brown"

[Jeebo72]

Which book has made the most impact on you?
Rules are YOU CAN ONLY POST ONE!

Mine is:

Austerlitz by WG Sebald - a strange hypnotic style of writing, the dreamlike and haunting sequence at the start reminded me of when I first read the start of Great Expectations at age 8.

Definitely one to read again and again.

Porno, Irvine Welsh.

[stingman123]

23 posts and no one's mentioned the great Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code yet. Excellent book.

Because its a load of PAP

[snaw]

23 posts and no one's mentioned the great Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code yet. Excellent book.

I'd rather tear out my eye balls and lubricate them with chilli paste. It takes a really awful book for me to get halfway through and stop reading ...

[meridian]

By that reckoning of decades, 1990 was not in the nineties...

That's why it's as much philosophical as mathematical - when you were born you had a whole year of being 0 before turning 1, hence the day before you turn ten you're finishing your first decade.

If you're pigeon-holing years by calling them "eighties" or "nineties" then clearly 1990 falls into your classification of "nineties"; however, it is also the last year of the 198th decade since our Christian-based calendar began.

[Moscow Mule]

By that reckoning of decades, 1990 was not in the nineties...

[meridian]

Wasn't it More or Less - which should be compulsory listening for most people on CUK, predominantly through choice.

There was an astronomer explaining why the decade being discussed runs from 01/01/2001 to 31/12/2010 and an utter tulip-for-brains being downright stupid and argumentative for the sake of it (in Today programme style) whose whole argument was "I think otherwise so you are wrong narny-narny-nar-nar".

Why would an astronomer be explaining it? Isn't it more a philosophical question, i.e. in our Christian-centric calendar the year 01AD is the first year AD and therefore the decade is 01 - 10 rather than 00 - 09 (leaving out the intricacies of Gregorian calendar updates....)


My vote goes to either Da Vinci Code or the first Harry Potter by the way, for their impact on modern society and general pandering to the masses.

[Mich the Tester]

Economics and Prudent Fiscal Policy

Brown, G and Darling, A; London 2009

[moorfield]

23 posts and no one's mentioned the great Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code yet. Excellent book.

[Coalman]

Some random crap.

[RichardCranium]

I heard something on Radio 4 the other day which completely blew apart the pedants arguement of when decades begin and end.
Unfortunately I can't remember the content of the discussion

Wasn't it More or Less - which should be compulsory listening for most people on CUK, predominantly through choice.

There was an astronomer explaining why the decade being discussed runs from 01/01/2001 to 31/12/2010 and an utter tulip-for-brains being downright stupid and argumentative for the sake of it (in Today programme style) whose whole argument was "I think otherwise so you are wrong narny-narny-nar-nar".