1995

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1995

Dit onderwerp is gemarkeerd als "slapend"—het laatste bericht is van meer dan 90 dagen geleden. Je kan het activeren door een een bericht toe te voegen.

1varielle
Bewerkt: apr 3, 2008, 10:06 am

US F I C T I O N

1. The Rainmaker, John Grisham 2,525 copies on LT

2. The Lost World, Michael Crichton 2,475 copies

3. Five Days in Paris, Danielle Steel 150 copies

4. The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans 456 copies

5. Lightning, Danielle Steel 124 copies

6. The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield 1,571 copies

7. Rose Madder, Stephen King 1,503 copies

8. Silent Night, Mary Higgins Clark 336 copies

9. Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For An Enlightened Yuletide Season, James Finn Garner 278 copies

10. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans 1,071 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray 1,276 copies

2. My American Journey, Colin Powell 390 copies

3. Miss America, Howard Stern 161 copies

4. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra 397 copies

5. The Road Ahead, Bill Gates 535 copies

6. Charles Kuralt's America, Charles Kuralt 137 copies

7. Mars and Venus in the Bedroom, John Gray 128 copies

8. To Renew America, Newt Gingrich 109 copies

9. My Point...and I Do Have One, Ellen DeGeneres 268 copies

10. The Moral Compass, William J. Bennett 324 copies

Another not so stellar year. I will admit to reading all the Venus and Mars books. Get out of the cave! On some other threads I believe I criticized The Celestine Prophecies not for the concept, but for how badly it was written. I know it was initially self published, but when it did get picked up by a major publisher there was no excuse for not having an editor clean up the grammar. It made me want to get out my red pen and go to work.

Really bad touchstones today.

2aviddiva
Bewerkt: apr 3, 2008, 11:28 am

I read The Lost World and The Horse Whisperer, but neither is a book I'll ever need to read again.

3Shortride
apr 4, 2008, 2:02 am

I haven't read any of these.

4vpfluke
apr 5, 2008, 11:05 pm

I was given the "The Celestine Prophecy" to read by a relative, and struggled through the bad writing for about a third of the book, and don't remember anything now.

5vpfluke
apr 5, 2008, 11:08 pm

I think I borrowed Politically Correct Holiday Stories and read some of them, and liked them reasonably well, but not enough to run out and buy the book.

6barney67
apr 11, 2008, 10:09 pm

This was kind of a New Age year, wasn't it? Wonder why. Somehow Chopra, Gray, Gates, and Degeneres have become lodged into our vernacular for their…wisdom?

My best friend was a Stern fan. He showed me the cover. I laughed out loud and was repulsed, which was no doubt the point.

I read Gingrich's book because the Contract was all over the news. He's a better speaker than writer.

The Rainmaker -- good movie. There's no reason to read Grisham's books, because they always get turned into good movies.

7SanctiSpiritus
apr 22, 2008, 6:41 pm

In fiction, I've read #1, and #2.

8keren7
apr 23, 2008, 12:14 pm

9Cecrow
Bewerkt: okt 30, 2019, 1:09 pm

Hmm. About to read Sophie's World and found this information on Wikipedia:
Sophie's World became a best-seller in Norway and won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1994. The English translation was published in 1995, and the book was reported to be the best-selling book in the world in that year. By 2011 the novel had been translated into fifty-nine languages, with over forty million print copies sold. It is one of the most commercially successful Norwegian novels outside of Norway, and has been adapted into a film and a PC game.

102wonderY
okt 30, 2019, 1:39 pm

Perhaps 10 years ago, my daughter's teen friends discovered The Celestine Prophecy and went gaga over it for a bit. I was overweeningly proud of Rose that she panned it as shallow and without merit.

11varielle
nov 2, 2019, 6:29 am

Good for her. When I read it I wondered the same thing and also wondered why the publisher couldn’t hire an editor to fix the atrocious grammar.