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2003 Books
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 355 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,815,047 ratings — published 2003
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 138 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,533,487 ratings — published 2003
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,466,550 ratings — published 2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 99 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,874,904 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 97 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,217,955 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,477,284 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,522,256 ratings — published 1998
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,602,773 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,356,164 ratings — published 2001
The Nanny Diaries (Nanny, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.47 — 390,064 ratings — published 2002
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,758,801 ratings — published 2001
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,134,096 ratings — published 1954
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.81 — 276,427 ratings — published 1998
The King of Torts (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.73 — 91,098 ratings — published 2003
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,511,078 ratings — published 2003
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,048,662 ratings — published 1955
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,861,424 ratings — published 2003
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.82 — 937,857 ratings — published 2003
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,407,764 ratings — published 2000
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.00 — 762,555 ratings — published 2003
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.00 — 288,639 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,477,621 ratings — published 1937
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,169,831 ratings — published 1954
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.01 — 808,162 ratings — published 2003
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.95 — 565,681 ratings — published 2001
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.96 — 149,133 ratings — published 1998
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.94 — 324,421 ratings — published 2001
To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, #9)
by (shelved 35 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.17 — 126,766 ratings — published 2003
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.14 — 227,869 ratings — published 2003
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.23 — 168,732 ratings — published 1999
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.04 — 664,958 ratings — published 2002
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,269 ratings — published 2003
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,368,208 ratings — published 1998
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.93 — 783,072 ratings — published 1999
Bleachers (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.54 — 46,804 ratings — published 2003
The Little Friend (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 28 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.48 — 83,082 ratings — published 2002
The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.05 — 141,084 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.22 — 424,598 ratings — published 2003
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,332 ratings — published 2001
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,837,751 ratings — published 1813
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.64 — 68,341 ratings — published 2000
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.44 — 647,401 ratings — published 1952
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.80 — 225,712 ratings — published 2003
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.86 — 562,650 ratings — published 2001
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.85 — 199,170 ratings — published 2001
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.06 — 241,489 ratings — published 2003
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.93 — 443,613 ratings — published 2003
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)
by (shelved 22 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.20 — 202,926 ratings — published 2003
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,025,659 ratings — published 1996
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.81 — 101,377 ratings — published 2003
“The movies were just kind of figuring out how to use computers in 2003, and nobody was just kind of figuring out how to use computers harder than Michael Bay. It’s tempting to say that every frame of Bad Boys II looks like a TV commercial, but truly every frame looks like a print advertisement, like those Candies ads where Jenny McCarthy’s taking a shit, shallow and glossy and tinged acid green. There are four car chases, one of which is at least fifteen minutes long. Even the most passing transitions are giddily tasteless: the camera EXPLODES out of the speedboat’s tailpipe and ZOOMS across Biscayne Bay and WHAMS down the ventilation shaft in the backward sunglasses factory and SHOOMPS into the buttcrack of a raver’s low-rise jeans and SPROINGS across her transverse colon and SQUEAKS through her appendix and AIRHORNS out her belly button and PLOPS into the Cuban drug lord’s mojito as he shoots his favorite nephew in the head while saying, “Adios, kemosabe,” or something fucking cool like that.
When faced with a choice, Bay picks “all of the above” every time. He’s like a dog in one of those obedience trials who’s like, “Obedience? I don’t know her,” and just goes buck wild on the sausages. Except instead of “obedience” it’s “having a coherent plot that holds the audience’s attention” and instead of “sausages” it’s “explosions, Ferrari chases, and how many different cool kinds of box could a gun come in.”
― Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
When faced with a choice, Bay picks “all of the above” every time. He’s like a dog in one of those obedience trials who’s like, “Obedience? I don’t know her,” and just goes buck wild on the sausages. Except instead of “obedience” it’s “having a coherent plot that holds the audience’s attention” and instead of “sausages” it’s “explosions, Ferrari chases, and how many different cool kinds of box could a gun come in.”
― Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
“Il n’est jamais mauvais de redire que ce n’est pas la théorie de Marx qui « réduit » tout à l’économie, mais « la société marchande qui constitue le plus grand “réductionnisme” jamais vu » ; et que «pour sortir de ce “réductionnisme”, il faut sortir du capitalisme, non de sa critique ».”
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