Dec 31 2007
2007 Lampie Awards
Good evening, and welcome to the First Ever Annual Lampie Awards, where we (by which I mean I) pay tribute to excellence in books read (if not necessarily published) during 2007. The field this year can be described in only one way:
When they were good, they were very, very good, and when they were bad, they were too bloody awful for words.
I have never not finished so many books as in 2007. I’ve been unable to determine if they were really that bad or if I have simply lost the patience to stick with a story in hopes the author pulls it out of a nosedive, but I hit my typical annual allotment of wallbangers by the beginning of March, and it only snowballed from there. Even widely lauded books found their way onto my Never Again list, resulting in a certain loss of faith in those doing the lauding.
(You want me to crack and name names with the bad ones, don’t you? I can feel it. The Greatest Disappointment. The Most Overrated. The Great Big Book of Cliche. The Biggest Monetary Ripoff. The I Hope the Hero and Heroine Die Because They Disgust Me Book. The Suckiest Book in the History of Written Language. You want them all. Well, TOO BAD. I have drawn a line in the bitchy sand, and it is here!)
At the other end of the spectrum, the good books were phenomenal. Today we (by which I mean I again) honor those books in all genres that stood head and shoulders and sometimes entire torso and a good bit of ass above the crowd.
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9/30
11/4
11/4
11/25