Jo on top

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
<arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
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> Oops!
> Post again, this time without the missing bits.
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> http://tinyurl.com/3cpu3j
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> Interesting that it's PS/SS.
> Mind you, that's my favourite of the series too - though not of
> all the books I've read that were written in the past 25 years.
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> And the top 25 are....
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> http://tinyurl.com/2f399m

ah these top 25/100/all time lists, always good for a laugh/ageist 
shock....

last 25 years, not really but then my memory is short/failing too.

I feel they should have done it by genre, would have produced a more 
interesting result - and some potential authors I may have missed. 
I'm going away to look at my bookshelves and see what they've left 
out (or is lower down the list)...off the top of my head there's 
Jasper Fforde, Lindsey Davis, Janet Evanovich, George RR Martin, 
Kazuo Ishiguro, Alistair Reynolds, CJ Sansom and very recent but 
impressive Marina Lewycka

Regards
Jo

oh and should you be interested here's my take on that top 25:

1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling  - who?
2 The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger - yup very good book
3 Northern Lights, Philip Pullman - as a place holder for the series 
I agree
4 Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks - another fine book
5 The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown - don't get me started!
6 The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón - ok but not great
7 Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden - loved it
8 The Secret History, Donna Tartt - excellent
9 Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières - not so much
10 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon - 
really good
11 The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood - preffered others (Oryx and 
Crake, Penelopiad)
12 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini  - ah haven't read it
13 The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold - nor this
14 A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving - oh is this a pattern
15 The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett - what!!!  I love pratchett 
but this is the worst
16 The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom - another to be 
read
17 Magician Raymond, E Feist - please, they are kidding
18 Life of Pi, Yann Martel - ah never made it past the first chapter
19 Wild Swans, Jung Chang - yeah if only for the foot binding 
stuff...gross
20 The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella  - never 
even heard of it
21 The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco - really loved this but did 
skip some of the 'harder' bits
22 Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt - no haven't read this either
23 A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth - oh but is was soooo long
24 Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson - not usually my thing but 
enjoyed it
25 Labyrinth, Kate Mosse - this is even worse than Dan Brown