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Midnight Children edit: won the "booker of booker" prize (the best book out of all the booker prize winners over the past 40 years)
by marshallp 17y ago
Midnight Children
edit: won the "booker of booker" prize (the best book out of all the booker prize winners over the past 40 years)
- dgordon 17y agoI've only even heard of one of the Booker winners (Life of Pi.) Maybe I'm just that uncultured. Then again, maybe the literary establishment is just that insular.
- wisty 17y agoMidnight's Children is like The Lord of the Rings for people who like modern literature. It's no more silly or obscure than LOTR. The postmodernists call it "post-colonial magical realism", because they can't admit that it's just fantasy written by a good author (who writes very pretty prose) who likes character development more than sword-fights. Think of "the literary establishment" as Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Don't let their posturing put you off.