Posted by joffre on 23/10/2007, 22:08:56, in reply to "Re: Doris Lessing" I figure all the Nobel prize really means is that the winner was better than the average writer at the time the prize was given. I hope it means at least that anyway. The prize does carry some weight for me. A few years ago, a very close friend wanted me to read Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness. I saw that Laxness had won the Nobel prize, so I figured I could read the book. I liked it well enough. I've been watching the Booker prize more the last couple years. I've been trying to read some more contemporary books. I read The Life of Pi because it had won the Booker, and I'd heard more about it. I enjoyed it well enough. I read The Sea by John Banville on the recommendation of the Booker and Harold Bloom. I probably liked that a little less than well enough. Banville said the Booker prize was just what he needed, a prize for middle-brow fiction. He also said it was nice to see a work of art win the Booker. I still think they give all these prizes too often and too soon.
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That does seem a rather nasty remark.
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