Mccarthy should get it for writing the most unputdownable book I've ever read.
Which one? I read The Road yesterday, beautiful little book. I love Blood Meridian, I think that's my favourite of his.
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Mccarthy should get it for writing the most unputdownable book I've ever read.
i've been nominated for the nobel prize for lickouts...again
I totally agree. Really surprised to see Murakami's name so high in the betting stakes. I've only read a couple of his books but they were so bland and bereft of style that I was curious as to why he IS rated so highly.
Roth's had a good run of great, big novels since American Pastoral & he's nearly dead (!) so the Swedish Academy don't wanna miss out on this one! Hmm so is Updike but his remit is basically WASPish malaise-hardly the stuff of a Nobel winner regardless of how well he describes it.
A lot of noises on lit-blogs for Carlos Fuentes though. What's his stuff like these days? Last one I read was 'Diana' which wasn't bad.
#American Pastoral/I Married A Communist/A Human Stain - he deserves it just for those three. Jahmazing!
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I have a really funny image now of you putting a back in ten minutes sign in the window of the bookshop, going into the Paddy Powers nextdoor for the FIRST TIME EVER, them looking at you (there's yer man from the bukeshop) and you saying "so ...erm....how are you, friends? good odds on Phillip Roth eh?".
Which one? I read The Road yesterday, beautiful little book.
the very one.
When is this on? Would he regular shops accept bets or is it an online only thing?
Klaxons won it..
It was that other Marxist feminist, Doris Lessing actually.
Wouldn't trust Ladbrokes.
Here's Paddy Power's list:
Cardinal Angelo Scola (Venice)6/1Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras)7/1Count Christoph von Schoenborn (Austria)7/1Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Argentina)9/1Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy)10/1Dionigi Tettamanzi (Italy)10/1Francis Arinze (Nigeria)10/1Claudio Hummes (Brazil)12/1Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa (Chile)14/1Cardinal Karl Lehnmann (Germany)16/1Attilio Cardinal Nicora (Roman Curia)20/1Cardianl Ruini (Italy)20/1Cardinal Renato Martino (Italy)20/1JaimeLucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba)20/1Jose Da Cruz Policar (Portugal)20/1Norberto Rivera Carrera (Mexico)20/1Wilfred Napier (South Africa)20/1Angelo Sodano (Italy)25/1Ivan Dias (India)25/1Antonio María Rouco Var (Spain)33/1Philippe Barbarin (France)33/1Cormac Murphy-OConnor (UK)40/1Giacomo Biffi (Italy)40/1Giovanni Battista Re (Italy)40/1Cardinal Dario Castrillion Hoyos (Colombia)50/1Cardinal Walter Kasper (Germany)50/1Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil)50/1Godfried Danneels (Belgium)50/1Keith O Brien (Scotland)50/1Lopez Rodriguez (Dominican Republic)50/1Cardinal Amigo Vallejo (Spain)66/1Cardinal George Pell (Australia)66/1Jean-marie Lustiger (France)66/1Francis George (USA)80/1Cardinal Carlo Maria Matini (Italy)100/1Silvano Piovanelli (Italy)125/1Bono (Ireland)1000/1Father Dougal Maguire (Craggy Island)1000/1
ah another year, another Golden Tongue for the munchman
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