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Samantha Harvey's 'beautiful and ambitious' Orbital wins Booker prize
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago[flagged]
- beardyw 2y agoIs that relevant?
- fastball 2y agoAlthough I don't think it is reasonable to ask such a question without cause / reason for suspicion, whether or not the Booker Prize is corrupt would indeed be relevant to an article about someone winning the prize.
- nindalf 2y agoThe way it’s phrased matters. Bad, because it implies that corruption exists: How much corruption is there in the Booker prizes? Better, because it comes from a place of curiosity: What do folks think about the Booker Prize? Is the nomination and selection process considered fair or are there issues (corruption etc) that have affected other awards?
- WillPostForFood 2y ago[flagged]
- bcdtttt 2y agoWhy would women and Black men not be good authors? If you have evidence that the books nominated were chosen on something other than merit, share that, otherwise you sound like an ass by insinuating that women and Black men can't write. Not everything has to be a big culture war battle, chill out.
- skc 2y agoThe election results have emboldened a lot of these takes.
- bcdtttt 2y agoYeah. Which is wild to me because Biden was center/center right. It's not like one has to hide it the past four years. And most online platforms will still be moderated for the next little while.
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- duxup 2y agoIs there some reason to think it is?
- vr46 2y agoI picked this up a few months ago while wandering around London and it is a delightful book, with a delightful tempo. Perhaps for those of us that lean more towards the Wong Kar-wei’s of the world than the peaks and tropes of airport bestsellers packed with big moments connected by flatlines.
- neaden 2y agoIt sounds like a very interesting book that I hadn't heard of before. I am struck though that it only had 29k sales in the whole UK, I know fiction sales are fairly low these days but hopefully this gets it to more eyes.
- sien 2y agoI'm reading this now and enjoying it. It's a book that should appeal to a lot of folks here. There is a combination of reflection on technology and life. As with most Booker Prize winners it is also extremely well written.