The 12 Hour Deathless Thread

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Mon May 02, 2022 8:53 am

Mike wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 6:04 amAye, Captain!

Me, first mate!

Post by **Mike** » Mon May 02, 2022 9:20 am

Eliahad wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 8:53 am
Mike wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 6:04 amAye, Captain!
Me, first mate!

There, wolf.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon May 02, 2022 9:54 am

NYT's editor's choice books for 1999:
Richard A. Posner, An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
John Keegan, The First World War
Michael Frayn, Headlong
Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier
Inga Clendinnen, Reading the Holocaust
Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon May 02, 2022 12:03 pm

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

??? Saucy 1999! Saucy.

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Mon May 02, 2022 12:25 pm

Trees, ranked. 32. Liriodendron tulipifera AKA Tulip Tree

Going by the name, this is a lily tree that makes tulips. However, it is not a lily, a tulip, or a poplar, despite popular confusion. It is a cousin of the magnolias discussed above, part of their big family, but unusual and spectacular in its own right. First, this tree can be freaking HUGE and also covered with blooms, which is amazing. It is found primarily in the eastern US, especially in the southeast or the "south of the great lakes" portion of the midwest. It is one of the tallest trees found in this area, and it both grows quickly but retains strength and durability. Second, the wood makes great lumber but the tree is even better for bees and birds and things, because unlike a tulip its flowers are chock full of nectar and all sorts of stamens and pistils and whatnot. They are sometimes yellow but also yellow green or pale green, sometimes with an orange stripe inside. Absolutely gorgeous, in short. Third, the tree is occasionally called a fiddletree because it has fabulous leaves that look, to some people who cannot see, like violins. If anything they look like a very large paw or hand reaching out and yes, I do want to hold its paws and generally bask in its glorious presence. Unfortunately, I never see these trees, but they are still awesome so must be ranked highly. Like a few others that will be appearing in this vicinity on the list (Jacaranda? Palo Verde? looking at you, kids), it would probably rate far better if I were more familiar with its manifestations as opposed to going on memory from living in other places, but it is what it is. This is, after all, my list and as such has its attendant idiosyncracies and limitations.

Liriodendron lives in its own genus along with its Chinese cousin which is very similar - more reddish leaves and apparently smaller. Incredible that these trees span the globe as they do and are fabulous in both of their manifestations. I will give you both the tree and its flowers because you need to see both!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon May 02, 2022 1:18 pm

NYT's editor's choice books for 2000:
Jim Crace, Being Dead
Unknown, Beowulf (translation by Seamus Heaney)
Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
John Updike, Gertrude and Claudius
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
Graham Robb, Rimbaud: A Biography
Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War

Post by **Mike** » Mon May 02, 2022 11:51 pm

That's long enough.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue May 03, 2022 3:34 am

NYT's editor's choice books for 2001:
W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days
Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 03, 2022 5:18 am

Good morning!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue May 03, 2022 6:47 am

NYT's editor's choice books for 2002:
Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Lorna Sage, Bad Blood
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
William Kennedy, Roscoe
Timothy Ferris, Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 03, 2022 7:09 am

Still a good morning!

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Tue May 03, 2022 8:08 am

Not good.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue May 03, 2022 9:08 am

NYT's editor's choice books for 2003:
Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Monica Ali, Brick Lane
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Drop City
Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue May 03, 2022 9:29 am

Since this list didn't reward The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, I believe it's now extremely likely I've read zero of these books.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 03, 2022 11:49 am

Ahem...

GOOD MORNING!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue May 03, 2022 3:11 pm

NYT's 10 best books for 2004:
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Ha Jin, War Trash
Alice Munro, Runaway
Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
Colm Tóibín, The Master

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue May 03, 2022 3:19 pm

I read the first 5 pages of The Plot Against America

But I've spent a lot of time reading lyrics inspired by Chernow's book

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 03, 2022 4:09 pm

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Tue May 03, 2022 5:27 pm

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 11:49 am Ahem...

GOOD MORNING!

Oh. Hey.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 03, 2022 8:26 pm

Oh yeah! Hey dude!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed May 04, 2022 3:51 am

I got a couple chapters into The Plot Against America, but it just didn't hold my attention.

NYT's 10 best books for 2005:
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
Jonathan Harr, The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
George Packer, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, de Kooning: An American Master

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed May 04, 2022 5:26 am

Ahem...

HEY DUDE!

Post by **Mike** » Wed May 04, 2022 5:33 am

Uh... hey?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed May 04, 2022 5:57 am

Heh heh. Right on. What's up?

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Wed May 04, 2022 7:07 am

Don't make it bad.
Take a sad post.
And make it better.
The minute.
You let Kyle under your skin.
Then you can begin.
To make it.
Better,
Better,
Better.
Nah... Nah... Nah...
Nah nah nah nahhhhh
Nah nah nah nahhhhh
Hey, Dude.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed May 04, 2022 10:28 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2006:
Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan
Rory Stewart, The Places In Between
Danielle Trussoni, Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed May 04, 2022 11:26 am

Eliahad wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 7:07 am Don't make it bad.
Take a sad post.
And make it better.
The minute.
You let Kyle under your skin.
Then you can begin.
To make it.
Better,
Better,
Better.
Nah... Nah... Nah...
Nah nah nah nahhhhh
Nah nah nah nahhhhh
Hey, Dude.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed May 04, 2022 4:40 pm

NYT's 10 best books for 2007:
Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke: A Novel
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens
Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses
Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Michael Thomas, Man Gone Down: A Novel
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Post by **Mike** » Wed May 04, 2022 4:50 pm

Brillig!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu May 05, 2022 3:45 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2008:
Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
Toni Morrison, A Mercy
Joseph O'Neill, Netherland

Post by **Mike** » Thu May 05, 2022 5:33 am

Slithy!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu May 05, 2022 6:39 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2009:
Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
David Finkel, The Good Soldiers
Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir
Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City
Maile Meloy, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
Carol Sklenicka, Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women
Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu May 05, 2022 6:46 am

Good morning!

Post by **Mike** » Thu May 05, 2022 8:45 am

"Frumious!" raves the Toronto Daily News.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu May 05, 2022 10:00 am

"Spacnacular!" Chicago Sun Chronic

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Thu May 05, 2022 3:49 pm

"Frubjious!" The Canton Picayune

Post by **Mike** » Thu May 05, 2022 4:03 pm

The hero of Canton!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu May 05, 2022 4:28 pm

NYT's 10 best books for 2010:
Ann Beattie, The New Yorker Stories
Emma Donoghue, Room
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Jennifer Homans, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat
William Trevor, Selected Stories
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu May 05, 2022 6:45 pm

There's a few in there I want to read

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu May 05, 2022 7:01 pm

Good evening!

Post by **Mike** » Thu May 05, 2022 7:24 pm

Calloo! Callay!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri May 06, 2022 3:51 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2011:
Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Eleanor Henderson, Ten Thousand Saints
Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Essays
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Stephen King, 11/22/63
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

Post by **Mike** » Fri May 06, 2022 5:36 am

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri May 06, 2022 7:48 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2012:
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Robert Caro, The Passage of Power
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
David Nasaw, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Zadie Smith, NW
Chris Ware, Building Stories

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Fri May 06, 2022 8:40 am

S'smrt.

Post by **Mike** » Fri May 06, 2022 8:44 am

Gogmrt

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Fri May 06, 2022 9:58 am

Mike wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 8:44 amGogmrt

Hahahhaaaaaaa

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri May 06, 2022 2:45 pm

Save point.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri May 06, 2022 4:16 pm

NYT's 10 best books for 2013:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Peter Baker, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Alan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave
Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
George Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Fri May 06, 2022 6:05 pm

Someday, Saunders