Slog - Comments on Two-Timing Rushdie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie 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?... Copyright 2008 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:18:19 -0800 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:11:32 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by please is ECB going to post today?

]]> please http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070428 Books Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:25:42 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens 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...

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070446 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070446 Books Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:31:23 -0800 Comment by umvue 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.

]]> umvue http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070585 Books Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:22:16 -0800 Comment by nicole 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.


]]> nicole http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1070710 Books Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:02:40 -0800 Comment by Marcel Duchump Anybody read The Enchantress of Florence yet? It's just sitting here, and I'm undecided as whether to pick it up or not...

]]> Marcel Duchump http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1071335 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1071335 Books Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:09:47 -0800 Comment by How late it was, how late. 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.

]]> How late it was, how late. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1071395 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/twotiming_rushdie#c1071395 Books Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:11:32 -0800