Though I hesitate to label myself as someone who makes correct predictions (if only I could do that where sports events, stock market prices and presidential campaigns were concerned!), I do want to "pat myself on the back" for having said earlier in posts here that Salman Rushie's Midnight Children probably would win the Best of the Booker Award ... it just did.
Today (July 10), it was announced that Rushdie's 1981 Booker Winner had been voted Best of the Booker Winners by the nearly 8,000 readers who voted. They had a choice of six former Booker winners, the other five in the shortlist in addition to Midnight's Children being: Oscar and Lucinda, The Ghost Road, The Conservationist, Disgrace, and The Siege of Krishnapur.
MEL VOGEL
Thanks for posting this, Mel! I'm glad I recently read this book ...
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, Laura.
ReplyDeleteMidnight's Children is on my list of Booker winners I want to read during 2008. Several weeks ago I completed Oscar and Lucinda (my 12th winner read so far), and O&S was the choice I voted for in the Best Booker competition.
MEL
That should have read "...and O&L was the choice...." etc.
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