Who Will Win The Nobel Prize For Literature (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

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.

 

[Deleted member 3435]

i've been nominated for the nobel prize for lickouts...again

You mean the No Bell prize. Best of luck with that, dude.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

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!

 

[Deleted member 3435]

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?".

 

[evil bandit]

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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?".

It would be like the scene in black books where Bernard is betting for the first time and fills in the slip saying something like
"Dear Bookmaker,
Could i please place a bet of £10 on XXX horse that will be running at xxx in xxxx,
Thank you very much.
Yours Sincerely,
Bernard"

What are the odds this guy winning it

 

[pete]

Which one? I read The Road yesterday, beautiful little book.

the very one.

 

[flashback]

the very one.

Yeah, that was good enough.
Not as good as A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich like, but good.

 

[Gambra]

When is this on? Would he regular shops accept bets or is it an online only thing?

 

[Mitchum]

When is this on? Would he regular shops accept bets or is it an online only thing?

The regular shops will accept bets but you'll have to ask the assistant to ring head office to confirm price.

I put a tenner on Dylan and fifty on Roth yesterday in the Ladbrokes on Grand Canal Street. Priced as above.

 

[Johnnyc]

Class Mitchum.

 

[cephalopod]

Klaxons won it..

 

[Mitchum]

Klaxons won it..

It was that other Marxist feminist, Doris Lessing actually.

 

[cephalopod]

It was that other Marxist feminist, Doris Lessing actually.

Is she da one wot rites bout kitties?

 

[Gambra]

Wow, there was no odds on here at all.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

ah another year, another Golden Tongue for the munchman

 

[Mormon Nailer]

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

Scola lest me down badly the last time - I'm never betting on papal elections again.

And don't get me started on Danel Craig. I had a sizeable punt on Clive Owen, thought he was a shoe in, then he won a Goldan Globe and the odd were slashed and then it turns out to be Daniel Graig.

Also if they are going to put in stupid bets like Bono they should at least do the decent thing and give odds of 1M to 1 or something.

 

[Mitchum]

ah another year, another Golden Tongue for the munchman

Golden Notebook?

 

[cephalopod]

I nos all about books, I read em like, even the boring wans

 

[hermie]

Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature

 

[Lili Marlene]

Lickouts and the Klaxons.

Thumped in 2007 was great.