Bukka-Schmukka

[Ya Sam]

I'm signing below every word. The problem is that Booker Prize has 
cultivated a peculiar type of bad writing whose purpose is not artistic 
creativity but the inclusion in the short-list.


>From: "Paul Nightingale" <isread at btopenworld.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Bukka-Schmukka
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:20:20 +0100
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>The only thing that puzzles me is why anyone takes this nonsense seriously.
>Angela Carter failed to make the short-list with either of her last novels,
>Nights At The Circus and Wise Children. Currently, the 'best' English
>novelist in my view (worth very little, I agree) is Adam Thorpe; not a word
>down the years from Bukka & co. All of this is subjective, of course; 
>Carter
>and Thorpe might be as bad as Pynchon when writing his shitty essays (or
>indeed AtD). I agree with John about Jonathon Coe, and I would also give a
>vote for Christopher Priest, whose main crime is that he can be denounced 
>as
>a science-fiction writer. Perhaps the same is true of Ballard, who almost
>won the Bukka for something masquerading as proper literature. Also worth a
>moment of your time are the Iains Sinclair and Pears, and Jim Crace.
>Banville is Irish, Kelman Scottish. Undeniably the 'English' novel is
>parochial and dull; in that respect, I thought The Corrections a very good
>example of the 'English' novel.
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