Thursday, December 24, 2009

What Planet do these people live on?

Time Magazine has it's top ten list of 2009 out. OK. I'm not culture maven. I get that. But, I do know a bit about movies, books, plays etc.

And whoever the doofus was that came up with this list has to have come from a planet other than earth.

Example: His or Her list of the Top Ten NON FICTION books for 2009. None of which have even seen the best seller list, been read by anyone on earth or mars. Here is it... bonus points if you recognize even ONE.

You won't. No wonder there's such a cultural divide. The side that came up with this has none.

Top 10 Nonfiction Books

  1. The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
  2. D-Day by Antony Beevor
  3. Lit by Mary Karr
  4. Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
  5. The Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
  6. Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
  7. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
  8. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
  9. Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheehan
  10. John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

1 comment:

Anonymous1 said...

Obviously, they live on Mars. None of the titles are familiar to we either. I do know that "Going Rogue" was a big hit and should be somewhere on that list. Also, "Liberty and Tyranny".