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Actually, I kinda agree with you.  A Night to Remember, while important and groundbreaking when it came out, is just a chestnut now. Certainly it can't advance our understanding of what happened and in fact some of it's been disproved. I loved it as an adolescent and I have zero interest in revisiting it now. Good read, but ultimately kind of schlocky. IMHO, of course.
On the other hand, new treatments of historical incidents, of which we have several from which to choose, I find endlessly interesting and illuminating. Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean that it's not relevant today; again, several choices fall under this rubric. |
I'm not saying books about the past cannot be relevant or interesting. But it just seems we get a lot of nods to books written or set in the distant past. It would be nice to have at least one month where we get no nods to books from or about the past. I don't think it should be that hard to find current/modern books for just one month.
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Don't get too excited, though--Gulp does nothing for me.
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For me, none of the other books do anything for me. The only other book nominated (not by me) that I would have liked to have read is
Bossypants. But that didn't get a third nod.