tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post4648619130124604229..comments2024-01-19T21:33:09.716+00:00Comments on E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK: What Is The Booker For, Then?EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-64905030066051434132008-09-11T05:26:00.000+01:002008-09-11T05:26:00.000+01:00Here, Hear!Todd, your well-reasoned disdain resoun...Here, Hear!<BR/>Todd, your well-reasoned disdain resounds. And, dare I say, elegantly put. Britannia weeps. I can hear her from here.<BR/>Thank-you.got ham?https://www.blogger.com/profile/14411538266390539973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-510913664973287222008-09-10T19:32:00.000+01:002008-09-10T19:32:00.000+01:00Literature in Britain dumb?Well after reading Rose...Literature in Britain dumb?<BR/>Well after reading Rose Tramain's The Road Home,Jude Morgan's Passion, Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norrel, Sarah Water's Fingersmith and many others from Britain since 2000 and before I am not sure about dumbness.<BR/>And telling a good story in a novel is simply fundamental, clearly one needs a strong voice and technique but without a good story everything can very hard and farfetched...these are very very simple, but always valid, considerations. All the same I think that in these latest years the winners of the Man Booker Prize have been on an inferor level than before.Tommaso Gervasuttihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17137499390434949734noreply@blogger.com