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The real important question: is it a good story? Booker winners, in my experience have been often pretentious garbage masquerading as high art. Examples: Ian
by briandear 8y ago
The real important question: is it a good story?
Booker winners, in my experience have been often pretentious garbage masquerading as high art.
Examples:
Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam (1998)
Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (1991)
Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils (1986)
While the Pulitzer Prize for fiction is American only, the list of winners is far more justifiable as prize-worthy.
- EliRivers 8y agoWhile the Pulitzer Prize for fiction is American only, the list of winners is far more justifiable as prize-worthy. Now that is an interesting thing for someone to say. Are you American, or do you live in America? Where that question is leading is that I wonder if you find American fiction more accessible because it's written by and for Americans, and thus you already have the context to understand and appreciate it.