Books Of The Year
We asked our regular reviewers, as well as some of our best-known writers, to nominate their favourite books of 2005… Independent on Sunday
18 December 2005
Gary Lachman picks:
Strange Attractor Journal, Vol 2 ed Mark Pilkington. Another unique and necessary collection of eccentric scholarship, weird journalism and obsessive research. Nothing else like it.
plus…
H P Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq (McSweeney’s Books). The latest French pop-nihilism literary export assesses the work of a hyper-neurotic master of modern horror.
Aliens: Why They Are Here by Bryan Appleyard (Scribners £15.99). More about why we want them to arrive than about where they may come from, but at least it tries to get past the X-Files barrier.
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones (Heinemann £10.99). Gripping and moving tales about the heroes – mostly Jewish – behind the superheroes. How Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel, Jack Kirby, Bob Kane and others brought Superman, Batman and Captain America into the world.