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Originally Posted by HarryT
Interesting choice. I enjoyed it, certainly, but I wouldn't say that it was my best book of 2009. What was it that you liked about it so much?
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Actually I haven't read it, but I figured it'd ruffle a couple of the pretentious feathers after that loooong Dan Brown thread.
To add a serious answer...I reread a lot of classics that I'm fairly fond of, but I suppose my favorite fresh read of the year was Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds. I think it's a good book even for a casual reader, but as a scholar of Chinese literature, I found it particularly evocative and enjoyable. Granted, a lot of Chinese scholars would look down their nose at a book that didn't involve everyone dying...but I'm too immature to adopt such a perspective.