British author wins nobel prize for literature.

embee wrote:
So ...in response to being shown up for making a dickhead comment you claim it was a deliberate dickhead comment ...I guess the only thing we can be sure about is that you are a dickhead ...

Wooooooo...
Our presumptious little getting all bitter 'n' twisted 'n' ratty ...
Time of the month Nads?

Oh ... and there's that Royal "we" again ...

Now then, stop being a tart and move on.

Don't see a denial from you of being a dickhead ...That's two who think it ...that makes 'we' correct...

Keep up the sexist comments too ...They really hide your dickhead side

Oh get over it kids. It's been six pages.

i wish we could back to a discussion on the merits of the terrific D Lessing

Dello wrote:Oh get over it kids. It's been six pages.

Two years and a couple of months actually

horace wrote:i wish we could back to a discussion on the merits of the terrific D Lessing

Considering the literary merits of most posts on this page, not a chance.

On which note, I see that Ann Enright won the Man Booker prize for her novel "The Gathering" ... against all the odds.

I read an extract or two from it - one of which describes her relationship with her mother ... strange, cold and very heavy ...

Anyone read the book?

Merlin wrote:On which note, I see that Ann Enright won the Man Booker prize for her novel "The Gathering" ... against all the odds.

I read an extract or two from it - one of which describes her relationship with her mother ... strange, cold and very heavy ...

Anyone read the book?

Does any normal person read Booker prize winners?

Stop being so damned pompous.
Amis was always a good read.

But yes, have to say the "prize" is oft ridiculed.

Merlin wrote:Stop being so damned pompous.
Amis was always a good read.

Can you deny that most prize winners are as boring as sh!t

taipan wrote:

Merlin wrote:Stop being so damned pompous.
Amis was always a good read.

Can you deny that most prize winners are as boring as sh!t

Not at all - and the fact that the panel always seem to go for a wierdo outsider tells its own tale.
Similar to the crap that wins the Turner prize in "art" these days!

I very much enjoyed Margaret Attwood's (Booker) winning novel The Blind Assassin, though I only just found out it had won. I like her work generally.

I really struggled through Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda, which I read only because I had loved Bliss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_Prize#Booker_Prize_winners

There have been loads of truly great booker prize winners.

Of the few I've read: Midnight's Children, The Life of Pi and Schindler's Ark.

I gather that Amsterdam, Rites of Passage, The God of Small Things, The English patient and Vernon God Little are all excellent. There's probably more great books in the list of winners.

lardbucket wrote:I very much enjoyed Margaret Attwood's (Booker) winning novel The Blind Assassin, though I only just found out it had won. I like her work generally.

I really struggled through Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda, which I read only because I had loved Bliss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_Prize#Booker_Prize_winners

That list really highlights the dearth of quality fiction over the last 30 years.

Even if he's a countryman of mine, I find JM Coetzee pretty dire. I get the feeling he hates his characters, and that his writing springs from a deep-seated desire for revenge.

I've read only a couple of books by Coetzee. I did like them.

Have to admit I read only two, and couldn't relate to any of his characters. Even worse, I got the feeling that he couldn't either. To me, that is the first deadly sin in an author.

this is a better list ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize_for_Fiction

I can honestly say that reading D.Lessing's "golden notebook" and subsequent Children of violence series in my early 20's changed my views about relations between men and women

lardbucket wrote:this is a better list ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize_for_Fiction

It makes the dearth of quality literature even more obvious . . . (though I did like some of Timothy Mo's stuff).

horace wrote:I can honestly say that reading D.Lessing's "golden notebook" and subsequent Children of violence series in my early 20's changed my views about relations between men and women

Thanks, will try.