Banville's Booker

[bekah]

At 1:06 AM -0400 8/20/06, Toby G Levy wrote:
>I didn't care much for John Banville's "The Sea."  If I were able to
>select the Booker winner, I would have been hard pressed to choose
>between Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" and Julian Barnes' "Arthur & George." I
>loved them both.  Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" and Sebastian
>Barry's "A Long Long Way" were deeply moving.  I didn't care for Ali
>Smith's "The Accidental" but I think I enjoyed it more than Banvilles
>winner.
>


I've tried Banville and just get too bored but "On Beauty" was great! 
I read it and listened to it and then I read parts of it again (but 
when you're done, you're done).   I didn't see that much in Ishiguro 
to get stirred about and Ali's "Hotel World" was much better than 
"The Accidental," although "The Accidental" was far more subtle than 
"Hotel World;"   you kind of have to let things flow around and be 
ethereal.   I've got "Arthur & George" here as well as "A Long, Long 
Way" but time is incredibly short these days getting back to school 
and so on.   And now the 2006  long list is out - oh what's a good 
girl to do???   (go hide out in the bathroom and read!) (g)

Bekah