Wednesday, July 12, 2006

25 Biggest Wusses

We blogged a lot about some very silly topics (hot chicks, the Bush Administration, that kind of thing) in the early days of this blog.* In that spirit, via Stereogum, Blender is working on a list of the 25 Biggest Wusses in music. They'll unveil the rest later. I don't know why, but I found this very amusing:

25. Robert Smith
24. Donovan
23. Everyone in ’N Sync (Except Justin Timberlake)
22. Natalie Merchant
21. Pat Boone
20. Garth Brooks
19. Bread
18. Common
17. Metallica
16. Paul McCartney
15. Christopher Cross

* Some, no doubt, would say that things haven't changed very much.

Posted by jwb at 4:30 PM   

3 Comments:

Blogger Bram said:

OK, off-topic posting, but read Night Soldiers while traveling this past week. Hit the library before the trip, and there were a whole bunch of paperbacks (several duplicates) and that's the one that stuck in my head. Night before heading out, pulled it out, and noted it took place before the Cold War, which put me off a little, and that the beat-up copy was about to lose its cover and first signature.

Binder-clipped, headed into it on the flight to NYC. Man, that guy can write. It was instantly compelling, and the way he shifts narrative styles, amazing. I confess, I started to lose it at the end (but, was on the return flight, overtired and abused by the airlines). Like The Company, its weakness might have been in trying to cover too much history, but the story made that scope necessary. And, really, Furst can turn a mean phrase.

Returned it today, aiming to get another for vacation on Saturday — the big row of paperbacks was all gone. Maybe they found all of the others were on the verge of collapse. Or maybe...

Got Blood of Victory, one of two hardcovers. Worth the weight as carryon?

Also, Rucka's got a Queen and Country novel or two.
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Blogger jwb said:

Furst seems to be pretty hot at the moment. His new one, The Foreign Correspondent, is on the NY Times best-seller list. It could be those books were grabbed by others just discovering Furst.

Blood of Victory is one of the more recent books. Following the distinction I made in an earlier post about early and late Furst, this is in the second category--not so sprawling or epic. Given your misgivings about Night Soldiers (and The Company), maybe you're a late-Furst man. Please report back and let me know what you think.
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