Nobel odds or Who will be awarded the Nobel Literature Prize

[David Morris]

I don't exactly dislike Murakami, I just think he's not all that.
I've read Kafka on the Shore (pretty good) and Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
(not as much), and I think he's constantly hinting at deeper levels of
meaning and complexity, but never delivers, leaving so many threads
just hanging.    Maybe it's because I'm not Japanese.  I think his
magical realism is just a little too much Hello Kitty.

I've only read Rushdie's satanic Verses, which I really liked, but if
one is to be faulted for later works "falling off," I think OBA
suffers from that fault too.  Pynchon should have gotten the Nobel
back in the eighties, but not now.

Roth's very good, but who is this Adonis guy?  Does he really go with
this single iconic nome de plume?  Like Madonna?

David Morris

On 10/3/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd spread my bucks on Pynchon, Adonis, and Roth.
>
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> Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd spread my bucks on Rushdie, Murakami, and Roth.
>
> The Joyce Carol Oates line must be a joke the
> Ladbrokes guys threw in. To have JCO at 10-1 and not
> have Norman Mailer, John Ashbery or W.S Merwin on the
> list at all defies all sense and reason.
>