Well Said Freddy! Forsyth V ‘Intellectual’ Jackals
It would seem self-evident that the more people buy a book, the more credit to the author as a writer.
Many more probably read books they borrow from libraries, but paying hard cash is as good a tribute as one can offer.
That’s why so many of us disdain awards like Booker, which are decided by small cliques of ‘intellectuals…’
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…a parasitic class of mostly snooty gits.
How The Hell Did Evaristo Ever Get A Writing Prize?
‘…has said he has not been able to finish a Booker prize-winning novel for years, saying that he invariably loses interest after 50 pages…. ‘
Mr. Forsyth’s books are very readable.
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Just think back to that one!
My own inclination to avoid ‘literature’ churned out by Booker winners is confirmed by what Forsyth went on to say.
Viz.
‘…he would often find with the novels that win the annual literary prize that he did not know “what the hell I am reading… ‘
Well Said Freddy!
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Pamela 19:04 on July 22, 2021 Permalink |
That book, The Day of the Jackal, was rivetting. I have seen both the film versions but prefer the first.
Why anyone cares what little committees think, like the one that ‘votes’ for the Booker winners, is a real mystery.
Forsyth should have won multiple times.
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Jim Ex Jakarta 20:24 on July 22, 2021 Permalink |
Day of the Jackal! I remember when I read that, but I watched the movie before I read the book.
After that I must have read all Forsyth’s books.
I don’t think I would read a Booker Prize book even if I was on a long-distance flight where the movies were bad. .
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Noreen Paterson. 21:28 on July 22, 2021 Permalink |
Forsyth has been a successful writer because he wrote books people enjoy reading.
It’s not a left-right thing.
Stephen King’s books sold very well too, even you have said you liked them, even though he is very leftwing.
After the shower that got picked by Booker’s bunch last time round, it was pretty easy to see they had just been ticking PC boxes, a woman, and a coloured woman, and a queer, and if you were a white man with normal sexual tastes, you had no chance.
I think somebody even said that out loud at the time.
Booker acclaim no longer indicates great writing, if it ever did.
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Tam Birnie 23:54 on July 22, 2021 Permalink |
I never understand why the media, especialy the BBC, make such a big thing about Booker decisions.
The Booker gang are unelected and unrepresentative.
People should be free to nominate a book and if a book has say a hundred or a thousand nominees, then it should be open to anybody on the electoral register to vote.
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