I've read half of the shortlist already, a first for me
Larry Send a noteboard - 06/09/2011 10:38:39 PM
More Julian Barnes, yawn yawn. No Alan Hollinghurst, life is sorrow. Two women. Haven't read a single thing on the shortlist, or even the longlist, so I am feeling ignorant, ill-read and generally behind the times.
The Birch I thought was very well done, the de Witt perhaps being a shade above it. The Kelman was decent, but I didn't warm to it as much as I did to the other two. Will read the others later, the Barnes not until 2012 due to a late US release.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Man Booker 2011 shortlist out.
- 06/09/2011 10:20:49 PM
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Re: Man Booker 2011 shortlist out.
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Re: Project Gutenberg and it's Australian version together have most of the Pimpernel books.
- 06/09/2011 10:32:21 PM
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Re: Project Gutenberg and it's Australian version together have most of the Pimpernel books.
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Re: I am going to read them all.
- 06/09/2011 10:44:07 PM
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Re: I am going to read them all.
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Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"?
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Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"?
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Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget.
- 06/09/2011 10:54:16 PM
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Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget.
- 06/09/2011 10:56:37 PM
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Maybe she is meant to be French? And that's why she doesn't get her hubby's two English extremes? *NM*
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The punny one sounds vaguely amusing... or at least the title does.
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Oh, apparently she's a spy turned spy novel author... guess that makes more sense. *NM*
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I've read half of the shortlist already, a first for me
- 06/09/2011 10:38:39 PM
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Re: I'm not a Barnes fan.
- 06/09/2011 10:45:20 PM
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Sounds like you'd even read a Goodkind book first 
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Re: That is weird. It has got good reviews, you'd think they'd pass it over the ocean ASAP. *NM*
- 06/09/2011 11:01:00 PM
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