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Booker shortlist (article)

JennyJenny
edited March 2009 in - Reading
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7951147.stm

Peter Carey is on the shortlist again.

Comments

  • DwightDwight
    Thanks, Jenny. In connection with another thread, dealing with magical realism, I picked up Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" today, read the erudite introduction and began reading the book. But I won't go any further. I used to dig deeply into Joyce and Dostoievsky - Camus, even - but I think my literary days have left me now. Give me John Grisham and Stephen King these days for a pleasurable and undemanding read.
  • RichardSRichardS
    This Booker list is the International one which runs every two years and is based on a writer's complete work rather than the individual novels that is voted on later each year.
  • ClaudiaClaudia
    edited March 2009
    That explains Peter Carey's shortlisting then.
  • StirlingStirling
    I'm just about to start reading James Kelman at Uni.
  • JennyJenny
    Dwight - in my experience reading anything by Marquez at bedtime leads to very strange dreams!
  • RosalieRosalie
    I'm just about to read my first James Kelman, too.
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