I’ve been going back and forth on this: What is the best book I’ve read in 2012? Since “best” is vague and not too helpful, I’m just going to throw out a few candidates, since I can’t decide:
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
I readInfinite Jestby David Foster Wallace…again.
Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh Macleod
Honorable Mention: The Bridges of Madison County because I’ve never laughed so hard while reading.
How about you? Best books of 2012 to date?
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Best books I’ve read in 2012?
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides for sure.
Essays by Wallace Shawn was fantastic!
I am currently reading Infinite Jest, and that will make my list for sure.
King’s On Writing, which I will finish this week, also on the list.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad will make my honorable mention list for reasons similar to your Bridges.
Man, you and the Marriage Plot.
I think Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the most obnoxious books in existence.
I like what I like, what can I say?
YES! Unfettered jingoism and nonsensical business/finance-ish jargon like you have never seen. I have never before completed a book where I was repeatedly called an idiot so many times in so few pages.
I’m sending you an email.
I liked “Ignore Everybody”! http://squatrx.blogspot.com/2010/06/tools-crutches.html
Hmm, best reads of the year… I’ll have to think about this one…
Don’t know about “best”: going with the ones I enjoyed the most.
- Cut Time: An Education at the Fights by Carlo Rotella
- Black Site by Dalton Fury
- Two Whole Cakes by Lesley Kinzel
- Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man by Jay Atkinson
Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
Thanks Kay. I saw an interview with him not long ago. Very interesting.
Two books I read very recently that I liked A LOT:
10 1/2 Things No One Ever Said In a Commencement Speech
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Commencement-Speaker-Ever-Said/dp/0393074315
Tales of Unease
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Unease-Wordsworth-Mystery-Supernatural/dp/1840220783/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343190504&sr=1-1&keywords=tales+of+unease
Game of Thrones books, I enjoyed these for the first half of the year. Need a new fiction book so will check out some of the recommendations (not Bridges of Madison County!)
did you have a favorite in the Martin books? I still think the third one was the greatest.
The third volume was excellent. I read them back to back so they have all merged into one long (unfinished!) book for me.