Welcome to Writers Talkback. If you are a new user, your account will have to be approved manually to prevent spam. Please bear with us in the meantime
I've just read the article and wonder whether the judges are all told to read the books in a different order.
It wouldn't be fair if some of the books were left to the end by every judge, at which point they were skimmed through - perhaps because they looked less interesting or harder to absorb. Having read and thought about so many books consecutively, by halfway their brains must be suffering from overload!
It's not as though they were reading books they had chosen for relaxation.
(This point might have been covered in the article, but I may have read it too quickly to notice!)
Comments
An interesting item.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6987113.stm
It wouldn't be fair if some of the books were left to the end by every judge, at which point they were skimmed through - perhaps because they looked less interesting or harder to absorb. Having read and thought about so many books consecutively, by halfway their brains must be suffering from overload!
It's not as though they were reading books they had chosen for relaxation.
(This point might have been covered in the article, but I may have read it too quickly to notice!)
A real problem if you got a group of books you thought were boring, and still had to read them all the way through.