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Old 08-Aug-2008, 17:32
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Default re: Man Booker Prize 2008

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Originally Posted by Stewart View Post
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!
I've just, within the last few minutes, been handed it to review. Well, I suppose that the readership of the magazine that the review will be for will like a "generic ... thriller". If anything, it might convince them to think the Booker more accessible than many of them usually would.
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