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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Inherent Vice
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Thomas Pynchon
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, October 22, 2014
This is like the Platonic ideal of The Big Lebowski. Pynchon's absurdist, skewed style is perfect for this vintage of 1970's burnt out hippie beach bum detective amble. The prose is dense at times but always worth savoring. Often I found my self laughing out loud only after the third reading of a line, which somehow suddenly made all the subtle humor absolutely radiant... and that's Pynchon all the way for you, the trip is the destination.
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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson
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, October 21, 2014
Few contemporary novels should be forced reading for future high school & college students: relevant yet contempory, rabble-rousing, incandescent as the George Orwell classics of Animal Farm or 1984, a rare stroke of brilliant love for the free world. But here is one. Could it too grace every dusty shelf or digital personal stack of near-future luminaries? But if you were hoping for a nap, beware... No dusty tomb of the anolog, pedestrian epochs of 24 hr news channels... It's roots are (visceral, personable) tales at the dawn of information technology in the savant minds that decoded signals & secured our freedoms in The Great War, yet the narratives interweave generations--such as in David Mitchell's ambitiously fractal novels--right into our unresolved struggles of internet privacy, virtual currancy, need for mythology to guide us. Captivating and increadibly relevant, this is a story we are all in: a digital age of sharing across boundaries while maintaining refuges of privacy and security, a brave new world. Did I mention it was fun? Try his Snow Crash for a wilder pulp fiction ride, but this book is a true milestone of our time.
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