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Most Popular Reviews - 1999


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 1999, first for the year as a whole, then by month.

1999

  1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
  2. An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz
  3. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
  4. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter
  5. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
  6. The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
  7. Death and the Dervish, Mesa Selimovic
  8. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  9. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
  10. Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
  11. De toekomst van gisteren, Harry Mulisch
  12. The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick
  13. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
  14. Zodiac, Neal Stephenson
  15. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
  16. On Love, Alain de Botton
  17. King, John Berger
  18. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild
  19. Fording the Stream of Consciousness, Dubravka Ugresic
  20. Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Iain Sinclair
  21. The Assault, Harry Mulisch
  22. England, England, Julian Barnes
  23. In the Jaws of Life, Dubravka Ugresic
  24. The Mirror of Ideas, Michel Tournier
  25. The Death of the Author, Gilbert Adair
  26. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
  27. American Tabloid, James Ellroy
  28. Le Sabotage amoureux, Amélie Nothomb
  29. Babel Tower, A.S.Byatt
  30. The Crystal Frontier, Carlos Fuentes

December, 1999

  1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1)
  2. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (3)
  3. An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz (46)
  4. On Love, Alain de Botton (8)
  5. The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick (5)
  6. King, John Berger (2)
  7. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (12)
  8. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (16)
  9. England, England, Julian Barnes (19)
  10. Stupeur et tremblements, Amélie Nothomb (-)
  11. Snowcrash, Neal Stephenson (14)
  12. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (9)
  13. For and Against Method, I. Lakatos/P.Feyerabend (7)
  14. Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau (-)
  15. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (11)

November, 1999

  1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (2)
  2. King, John Berger (15)
  3. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (7)
  4. In Praise of the Stepmother, Mario Vargas Llosa (29)
  5. The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick (11)
  6. Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Iain Sinclair (10)
  7. For and Against Method, Imre Lakatos/Paul Feyerabend (6)
  8. On Love, Alain de Botton (21)
  9. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (16)
  10. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, Mario Vargas Llosa (39)
  11. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (12)
  12. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (3)
  13. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch (-)
  14. Snowcrash, Neal Stephenson (24)
  15. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (19)

October, 1999

  1. An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz (1)
  2. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (2)
  3. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (6)
  4. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (4)
  5. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (3)
  6. For and Against Method, Imre Lakatos/Paul Feyerabend (14)
  7. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (8)
  8. Le Sabotage amoureux, Amélie Nothomb (35)
  9. De toekomst van gisteren, Harry Mulisch (5)
  10. Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Iain Sinclair (10)
  11. The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick (16)
  12. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (28)
  13. Confabulario, Juan José Arreola (23)
  14. Conversations with Stoppard, Mel Gussow/Tom Stoppard (7)
  15. King, John Berger (19)

September, 1999

  1. An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz (1)
  2. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (2)
  3. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (3)
  4. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (5)
  5. De toekomst van gisteren, Harry Mulisch (10)
  6. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (6)
  7. Conversations with Stoppard, Mel Gussow/Tom Stoppard (9)
  8. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (-)
  9. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans.: E.FitzGerald (-)
  10. Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Iain Sinclair (17)
  11. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth (7)
  12. Eucalyptus, Murray Bail (4)
  13. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (12)
  14. For and Against Method, Imre Lakatos/Paul Feyerabend (n.a.)
  15. Death and the Dervish, Mesa Selimovic (30)

August, 1999

  1. An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz (1)
  2. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (5)
  3. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (-)
  4. Eucalyptus, Murray Bail (3)
  5. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (n.a.)
  6. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (8)
  7. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth (2)
  8. American Tabloid, James Ellroy (7)
  9. Conversations with Stoppard, M. Gussow/T. Stoppard (n.a.)
  10. De toekomst van gisteren, Harry Mulisch (4)
  11. The Thought Gang, Tibor Fischer (-)
  12. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (-)
  13. Love and Death on Long Island, Gilbert Adair (33)
  14. Memoirs of Many in One, Patrick White (-)
  15. The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick (-)

July, 1999:

  1. An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Octavio Paz (-)
  2. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth (14)
  3. Eucalyptus, Murray Bail (22)
  4. De toekomst van gisteren, Harry Mulisch (26)
  5. A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving (3)
  6. Lenin's Embalmers, Ilya Zbarsky (34)
  7. American Tabloid, James Ellroy (-)
  8. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (9)
  9. Voss, Patrick White (42)
  10. England, England, Julian Barnes (18)
  11. Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer (44)
  12. Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Iain Sinclair (n.a.)
  13. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch (15)
  14. Armadillo, William Boyd (31)
  15. The Ground beneath her Feet, Salman Rushdie (20)

June, 1999:

  1. The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson (n.a.)
  2. Death and the Dervish, Mesa Selimovic (n.a.)
  3. A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving (1)
  4. Zodiac, Neal Stephenson (n.a.)
  5. Fording the Stream of Consciousness, Dubravka Ugresic (n.a.)
  6. In the Jaws of Life, Dubravka Ugresic (n.a.)
  7. Snowcrash, Neal Stephenson (n.a.)
  8. The Death of the Author, Gilbert Adair (n.a.)
  9. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (5)
  10. The Marx Family Saga, Juan Goytisolo (n.a.)
  11. A Son of the Circus, John Irving (21)
  12. Love and Death on Long Island, Gilbert Adair (n.a.)
  13. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (6)
  14. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth (2)
  15. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch (n.a.)

May, 1999:

  1. A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving (6)
  2. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth (1)
  3. The Mirror of Ideas, Michel Tournier (-)
  4. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (n.a.)
  5. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter (2)
  6. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (n.a.)
  7. Babel Tower, A.S.Byatt (-)
  8. Love in a Dead Language, Lee Siegel (-)
  9. A Fringe of Leaves, Patrick White (-)
  10. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (n.a.)
  11. No Passion Spent, George Steiner (-)
  12. The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White (-)
  13. The Crystal Frontier, Carlos Fuentes (-)
  14. Armadillo, William Boyd (n.a.)
  15. Marat-Sade/The Investigation/The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman, Peter Weiss (4)

April, 1999:

  1. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
  2. Shaking a Leg, Angela Carter
  3. Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
  4. Marat-Sade/The Investigation/The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman, Peter Weiss
  5. The Triumph of Love, Geoffrey Hill
  6. A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
  7. The Puttermesser Papers, Cynthia Ozick
  8. Big Girls don't Cry (also: Big Women), Fay Weldon

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