Booker Prize 2017 - Long List out today!
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Booker Prize Long List 2010 has just been released.
Comments (12)What criteria is used to choose these books? Since reading and loving "The English Patient" (first Booker I ever read), it always caught my attention if a book had a sticker on it -- "Booker Winner" or "Booker Shortlisted". But when I read "God of Small Things" it was such a disappointment! Couldn't understand what that book was trying TO SAY ... and it was obvious that the writer was trying to get SOMETHING across. It was odd, when I returned it to the store, the guy behind the counter said, "You're returning this?!?!" ... He didn't have any great explanation as to why I should love it. (Did get my money back, tho'.) Since then I've been wary of buying Booker Prize novels. But am always curious to see which ones are nominated, which wins, which are shortlisted. I think, as with most prize competitions, judges give up handing out awards to the same people. Like the Academy Awards not going out too many times to the same actors who've already won Oscars and been nominated So Many Times Already. E.g.: Meryl Streep. So maybe that's why certain writers who've written wonderful novels this year but already won Bookers are left out -- even if they should be nominated again this year. What do you think?...See MoreBooker Prize Longlist 2013
Comments (14)The Spinning Heart is quite interesting. It's about a village in Ireland and the events just after the financial collapse a few years ago. What's interesting is that it's twenty-one different stories by twenty-one different people, but there is a continuous thread. It nearly worked - but not quite. I thought it would have been better to have chosen, say, four or five people and told the story through their eyes. As it is, it feels like a bit of a gimmick, and I don't feel the story is complete. I don't think it'll be short-listed. I read the first three chapters of the first book of The Kills and abandoned it. How that ordinary, badly written thriller got long-listed, I do not know. How can you even consider a book which has this ungrammatical rubbish? Ford waited, first he leaned against the table, then he stood upright with his arms folded. But now - A Tale for the Time Being. I'm with you, Merryworld - I really enjoyed it. I'll be astonished if it isn't shortlisted - I think it's got a chance of winning. It's a story about a fifteen year old Japanese girl, who is writing a diary - and a woman in Canada who is reading the diary. There are some unpleasant scenes, but altogether it worked. I agree - I loved all the characters and really cared about them and what happened to them. Lovely book - thoroughly recommended. One other piece of news - all the books on the longlist that are not yet published have had their publication date brought forward. (At least here in the UK, that is...)...See MoreAnne Enright - The Gathering - Booker Prize 2008
Comments (17)Looking forward to it...although I have been warned by DH that if I express the same opinion that I discussed with him, I will be ignomiously thrown out of RP. Even though he agreed with me! So we'll see if how brave I am....See MoreBooker Prize tonight - if you haven't yet read the shortlist....
Comments (7)I don't dispute that it's a bit of a disappointing short-list. But the books aren't half as depressing as they sound - the guy who does these deliberately picks out the worst parts and parodies the whole book like that. Very skillful, but I sometimes wonder if he actually enjoys reading very much? The same guy wrote an article in the Guardian which he seemed to suggest that if a book doesn't sell, it isn't worth anything....I really do wonder about him. Fortunately, someone else wrote another article refuting him....See Moresheri_z6
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