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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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Ishmael
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Daniel Quinn
Arboreality
, July 29, 2008
To say that this book changed my life is not at all too strong a sentiment. EVERYONE should read this book. Possibly more than once.
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Agatha Raisin & The Fairies Of Fryfam
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M C Beaton
Arboreality
, August 12, 2007
I admit, I am not a murder mystery reader by habit. This was a desperation read over a vacation weekend. However... this book was terrible. I am horrified to learn that M.C. Beaton is, in fact, a woman, and therefore guilty of writing such demeaning prose about her own gender. The mystery itself is unremarkable... not bad, not exceedingly clever, and entirely too many convenient events leading to it's resolution. The deplorable plot line surrounding our intrepid Agatha, however, cannot be ignored. She's an awful woman. She's rude, incredibly selfish, obsessed with her looks and her "shapely legs", has horrible judgment, and only manages to "solve" the crime by eventually bumbling about so much she angers all involved enough to force an eruption. Please don't waste your time on this book when there are so many better out there.
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Towing Jehovah
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James Morrow
Arboreality
, July 17, 2007
I wish I could say I loved it, because the plot (God has died, fallen into the sea, and needs to be towed to the Arctic for burial in an iceberg) is awesome, but instead it just gets a strong "Like" instead. Once the crazy liberal plot to hide the proof got cooked up, I kind of lost interest.
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson
Arboreality
, July 17, 2007
Have to tell you a story ... I told my boss the theme of the book, and how I loved that the main character's name was "Hiro Protaganist", and he laughed and said he's never heard of Neal Stephenson. He poked fun at me for reading no-name "scifi" writers and said I was probably the only person in 20 blocks who even knew who Stephenson was. We were on our way to coffee, and when we walked in I turned to the people ahead of us in line and said "Have you heard of Neal Stephenson?", to which they responded "Of course! He's great! Have you read Snow Crash?". So there. Also, the book is great. :)
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A Wild Sheep Chase
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Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Arboreality
, July 17, 2007
What I like about Murakami is that although his stories come from left field, he is kind to his characters; he never seems to feel he needs to make them jerks or unlovable just because his story is unusual (DeLillo and Palahnuik come to mind...). I don't even know what to say about the Sheep Boy, but if you liked other Murakami, you'd like this one, as well.
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Million Little Pieces
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James Frey
Arboreality
, July 17, 2007
Erm. My father has done well through AA, so I have my own feelings about AA and sobriety. Reading this book made me cry when it made me identify with my father's own struggles, which I was mostly too young to actually be part of but have always had some leftover guilt for not being more involved in. Unfortunately, the final message of the book, especially given Frey's factual challenges, made me mostly angry at the author for choosing to write a "memoir" that essentially tells other addicts that AA is for the weak and ignorant, and the only way to get through addiction is to break your way through mentally. That's fine and well, but it, like AA, doesn't work for everyone, and his dismissal of AA while simultaneously telling us about how fantastically strong he was to make it through when so many others failed mostly just made me want to punch him.
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Kensington Gardens
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Rodrigo Fresan
Arboreality
, July 17, 2007
I picked this up in a bookstore in Argentina in desperation for something to read when my vacation turned into a library vacation instead of a travel vacation. It's a big book, not typically anything I'd pick up, but like I said, I was desperate. And actually, I kind of loved it. It's sort of about Peter Pan, and sort of about J.M. Barrie, and sort of about a fictional character who identifies strongly with both of them. It's long and crazy and makes no sense half the time, but somehow the story carried me through anyway, and when I was done it stuck with me for a long time.
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Glyph
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Percival Everett
Arboreality
, July 17, 2007
This book is far too smart for me, most of it went right over my head. I do like Everett, though, and his quirky main character in this book (an infant prodigy) keeps the action and the crazy intellectual insights coming page after page.
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