Books Two-Timing Rushdie
posted by on July 10 at 11:18 AM
The Booker of Bookers tournament, an attempt to decide on the best Booker Prize winner of the 40 years of the prize’s history, has settled on Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Midnight’s Children won the 25th anniversary Booker of Bookers award, too, which means that it is clearly the best book ever. Or the best book of the last 40 years. Or the best of the 40 books that were chosen as winners of the Booker over the last 40 years. Or something. Right?
is ECB going to post today?
The "best" is the enemy of the good, and the Booker Prize has now officially jumped the literary shark. Sorry, Paul--you're now going to have to use your own cultural instincts to decide which books to read.
At least they were right about The God of Small Things...
Or something.
Mathematical game theory (e.g. Arrow's impossibility theorem) proves that all voting systems have inherent limitations and thus may result in undesirable outcomes.
whatever the booker prize decides, I'd have to agree with them about Rushdie. He's a pretty spectacular writer. Even his little essays about miscellaneous crap are fun to read.
Anybody read The Enchantress of Florence yet? It's just sitting here, and I'm undecided as whether to pick it up or not...
Midnight's Children was the worst piece of extended boring garbage. I did manage to struggle through to the end, but I vowed I'd never read another Rushdie again.
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