man booker prize
Oct. 14th, 2008 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I'm so disappointed.
Two of our good friends were in the running for the Booker Prize this year. (I know!! Isn't that amazing??!) They are Amitav Ghosh and Phil Hensher, and both of their novels are absolutely astounding and fantastic.
But just now on the BBC they showed the prize ceremony (for all of 3 seconds! the bloody Academy Awards get hours and hours, and what do literary prizes get? humph) and neither of them has won. Instead, Aravind Adiga's book won and I read that (I have a signed copy! I got it at the Wordfest!) and I thought it was o-kay but not fantastic.
*sigh*
Two of our good friends were in the running for the Booker Prize this year. (I know!! Isn't that amazing??!) They are Amitav Ghosh and Phil Hensher, and both of their novels are absolutely astounding and fantastic.
But just now on the BBC they showed the prize ceremony (for all of 3 seconds! the bloody Academy Awards get hours and hours, and what do literary prizes get? humph) and neither of them has won. Instead, Aravind Adiga's book won and I read that (I have a signed copy! I got it at the Wordfest!) and I thought it was o-kay but not fantastic.
*sigh*