Books Truly, This is the Navel of Navels!
posted by on February 21 at 15:25 PM
I’m sorry that I used the above blog photo cliche, but it’s the only appropriate illustration for this story: The Man Booker Prize people are going to give a “Best of the Bookers Prize.” In 1993, for the prize’s 25th anniversary, they declared Midnight’s Children the Booker of Bookers. So is this going to be the Bookerest Booker of Bookers? The Booker King?
Or, as Brendan Kiley said, “A prize among prizes? Is that like a list of my favorite lists?”
The ceremony will be better than a night in Zadie Smith's laundry hamper. Or, at least, the cheese will taste better.
It's right up there with my Top Ten Numbers [Between One and Ten].
I'd tell you what came in at number one but I like the suspense.
They should have one Booker Prize for Booker Prize winners including winners of the Booker Prize of Booker Prize winners, and another Booker Prize for winners of the Booker Prize excludes winners of the Booker Prize of Booker Prize winners.
that excludes, I meant.
Google Russel's Paradox.
Is the Booker committee trying to kill the prize altogether?
My vote: The Old Devils.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize_for_Fiction
Wow. I haven't read any of those, winners or shortlisteds. I own two of them (I bought Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop because I thought it looked interesting; someone gave me Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things), but I haven't read either of them. Now I feel like an illiterate jerk.
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