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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 362 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,897,794 ratings — published 2003
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 140 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,572,015 ratings — published 2003
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,483,863 ratings — published 2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 100 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,000,339 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 94 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,316,004 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,726,418 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 80 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,636,072 ratings — published 1998
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,626,469 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,369,248 ratings — published 2001
The Nanny Diaries (Nanny, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.47 — 391,286 ratings — published 2002
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,780,767 ratings — published 2001
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,585,665 ratings — published 2003
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,169,279 ratings — published 1954
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,874,374 ratings — published 2003
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.81 — 278,985 ratings — published 1998
The King of Torts (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.73 — 92,236 ratings — published 2003
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,079,776 ratings — published 1955
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.82 — 949,119 ratings — published 2003
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,447,131 ratings — published 2000
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.00 — 778,126 ratings — published 2003
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.00 — 293,766 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,593,406 ratings — published 1937
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,221,679 ratings — published 1954
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.02 — 828,652 ratings — published 2003
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.96 — 575,401 ratings — published 2001
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.96 — 151,018 ratings — published 1998
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.94 — 334,605 ratings — published 2001
To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, #9)
by (shelved 35 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.17 — 127,909 ratings — published 2003
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.14 — 237,141 ratings — published 2003
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.23 — 170,292 ratings — published 1999
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.04 — 671,061 ratings — published 2002
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.01 — 230,524 ratings — published 2003
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,393,108 ratings — published 1998
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.93 — 792,987 ratings — published 1999
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,039 ratings — published 2003
Bleachers (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.55 — 47,633 ratings — published 2003
The Little Friend (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 28 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.48 — 86,043 ratings — published 2002
The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.05 — 142,040 ratings — published 2003
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.95 — 127,474 ratings — published 2001
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,056 ratings — published 2003
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,968,556 ratings — published 1813
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.64 — 69,282 ratings — published 2000
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.45 — 699,789 ratings — published 1952
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.80 — 226,229 ratings — published 2003
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.93 — 446,791 ratings — published 2003
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.86 — 565,620 ratings — published 2001
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.85 — 202,520 ratings — published 2001
Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower, #5)
by (shelved 23 times as 2003)
avg rating 4.20 — 206,943 ratings — published 2003
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,035,040 ratings — published 1996
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as 2003)
avg rating 3.81 — 102,055 ratings — published 2003
“[...] In a country where values are collapsing, patriotism becomes the handmaiden to totalitarianism. The country becomes the religion. We are asked to live in a state of religious fervor: Love America! Love it because America has become a substitute for religion. But to love your country indiscriminately means that critical distinctions begin to go. And democracy depends upon these distinctions.
A good Englishman has a certain sense of the complexity of his national life. Even if he rides to hounds. The British have memory in a way we don't. That is the scariest single thing about American democracy to me: We don't have roots the way other countries do. Relatively, we are without deep traditions. So the transition from democracy to totalitarianism could happen quickly.”
― Why are We at War?
A good Englishman has a certain sense of the complexity of his national life. Even if he rides to hounds. The British have memory in a way we don't. That is the scariest single thing about American democracy to me: We don't have roots the way other countries do. Relatively, we are without deep traditions. So the transition from democracy to totalitarianism could happen quickly.”
― Why are We at War?
“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
