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Ultimately, novels are so diverse that once they attain a certain level of quality, they really can't be meaningfully ranked against one another. Pride and Prejudice and Crime and Punishment are both excellent, but very different, books, and the idea that we can decide which is better—or "greater"—is fundamentally absurd. ...
The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is a ranked list of the 100 best novels published in the English language since January 1, 2000.
They’re everywhere, those lists — the Best Ofs, the Top 10s. An industry site, Publishers Lunch, is tabulating the consensus of the year’s best books. “The roster has remained one of the ...
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Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It’s Supposed to Be -- With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn is a 2009 book by P. J. O'Rourke about the automobile.
O'Rourke dedicated the book to Max Brand, whom he knew before the war. In the book O'Rourke named a fictional war correspondent Max Hastings after him. [1] Several of O'Rourke's novels were filmed; The Bravados (1958) was the first, and his novel A Mule for the Marquesa was made into a popular movie named The Professionals (1966).
The book was (and remains) a sensation—it's said to be the second best-selling true crime book ever—even if in recent years, the precision of Capote's presented facts have come into question.
A Mule for the Marquesa (1964) is a novel by Frank O'Rourke. The film The Professionals (1966) is based on it. After the release of the film, new editions of the novel were issued under the title The Professionals .