
06-Aug-2008, 14:51
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Posts: 287
Reading: Counting down to Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
Translator: With luck, Mr. Benchley!
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re: Man Booker Prize 2008
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Originally Posted by Stewart
I finished Child 44 last night and, review forthcoming, it's an embarrassment, not just to the Booker, but to letters. I really don't know what the judges were thinking when they put this tripe on the list. It has no redeeming features whatsoever, unless you count that it ends as such. It offers nothing!
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Uh-oh, it sounds like Stewart has a found the equal to That-Book-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named. Oh was this only The Alchemist bad?
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