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Rushdie 'not good enough' for Booker From Booker's best to bottom of the heap ... Salman Rushdie. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence was simply not a good enough book to make it past the longlist stage of this year's Booker prize, according to the chair of judges, Michael Portillo. To add insult to the double Booker of Booker winner's injured pride, Portillo added that the judges didn't even spend that much time discussing it. "I can say that the discussions we had about Salman Rushdie, as with all the other books, was a discussion about the book and not about the author. It was about the merits of the book," he told guardian.co.uk after the press conference at which the shortlist was announced. View Complete Article - Within 4 days not 7
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Lawrence Poole
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Quote: Assignment Robot, Tuesday, 9 Sep 2008 23:09Rushdie 'not good enough' for Booker From Booker's best to bottom of the heap ... Salman Rushdie. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence was simply not a good enough book to make it past the longlist stage of this year's Booker prize, according to the chair of judges, Michael Portillo. To add insult to the double Booker of Booker winner's injured pride, Portillo added that the judges didn't even spend that much time discussing it. "I can say that the discussions we had about Salman Rushdie, as with all the other books, was a discussion about the book and not about the author. It was about the merits of the book," he told guardian.co.uk after the press conference at which the shortlist was announced. View Complete Article - Within 4 days not 7 mmm.. I must admit the more often I see Mr Rushdie in the press at one social gathering after another, the less inclined I am to wade through another of his books. His appearance in Bridgit Jones dodn't help matters. If he wants to be considered an intellectual, worthy of literary attention, why does he behave like such a prat?
'Don't pay any attention to critics - don't even ignore them.' - Sam Goldwyn
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sophiemp
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Quote: Lawrence Poole, Monday, 15 Sep 2008 18:50If he wants to be considered an intellectual, worthy of literary attention, why does he behave like such a prat? Someday people will ask the same question about you, Lawrence.
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Lawrence Poole
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Quote: sophiemp, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 15:06Quote: Lawrence Poole, Monday, 15 Sep 2008 18:50If he wants to be considered an intellectual, worthy of literary attention, why does he behave like such a prat? Someday people will ask the same question about you, Lawrence. wanker
'Don't pay any attention to critics - don't even ignore them.' - Sam Goldwyn
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Quote: Lawrence Poole, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 17:32Quote: sophiemp, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 15:06Quote: Lawrence Poole, Monday, 15 Sep 2008 18:50If he wants to be considered an intellectual, worthy of literary attention, why does he behave like such a prat? Someday people will ask the same question about you, Lawrence. wanker prat
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NickP
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Quote: sophiemp, Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 01:12Quote: Lawrence Poole, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 17:32Quote: sophiemp, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 15:06Quote: Lawrence Poole, Monday, 15 Sep 2008 18:50If he wants to be considered an intellectual, worthy of literary attention, why does he behave like such a prat? Someday people will ask the same question about you, Lawrence. wanker prat Welcome to the You Write On Literary Forum, Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker.
"...the likes of NickP can rant on if they like" I occasionally rant on at http://amonsterinthemirror.blogspot.com/
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sophiemp
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Quote: NickP, Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 09:47Quote: sophiemp, Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 01:12Quote: Lawrence Poole, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 17:32Quote: sophiemp, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 15:06Quote: Lawrence Poole, Monday, 15 Sep 2008 18:50If he wants to be considered an intellectual, worthy of literary attention, why does he behave like such a prat? Someday people will ask the same question about you, Lawrence. wanker prat Welcome to the You Write On Literary Forum, Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker. And you, sir, are a tosser. (I'm learning to speak British.)
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NickP
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Quote: sophiemp, Thursday, 18 Sep 2008 02:55Quote: NickP, Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 09:47Quote: sophiemp, Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 01:12Quote: Lawrence Poole, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 17:32Quote: sophiemp, Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 15:06Quote: Lawrence Poole, Monday, 15 Sep 2008 18:50If he wants to be considered an intellectual, worthy of literary attention, why does he behave like such a prat? Someday people will ask the same question about you, Lawrence. wanker prat Welcome to the You Write On Literary Forum, Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker. And you, sir, are a tosser. (I'm learning to speak British.) Your majesty is like a stream of bat's piss...
"...the likes of NickP can rant on if they like" I occasionally rant on at http://amonsterinthemirror.blogspot.com/
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Cordero
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The whole lot of you are like a dose of clap, or rust in the case of the robot. I didn’t write that; it was one of Wilde’s.
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NickP
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Quote: Cordero, Thursday, 18 Sep 2008 07:57The whole lot of you are like a dose of clap, or rust in the case of the robot. I didn’t write that; it was one of Wilde’s. Well, Oscar? We're waiting.
"...the likes of NickP can rant on if they like" I occasionally rant on at http://amonsterinthemirror.blogspot.com/
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Mulberry
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I wouldn't trust Cordero to sit the right way on a lavatory.  Rowan Atkinson. Belfast. 1979.
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Quote: Mulberry, Thursday, 18 Sep 2008 17:34I wouldn't trust Cordero to sit the right way on a lavatory. Rowan Atkinson. Belfast. 1979. ‘This doesn’t surprise me, Cordero.’ ‘Oh yeah, is that right, Wilde.’ ‘Yes, that is correct. Apparently, you are unable to position your posterior in the appropriate fashion.’ ‘Well at least I didn’t get banged up for getting it wrong!’ ‘True, dear boy, very true. However, you are not a published author.’ ‘I’ll be buggered if I go that far to get my work into print.’ ‘There lies the problem.’ 
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Fight! Fight!
(From Bridgitte Jones, where another fat american spoke proper English)
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Rushdie 'not good enough' for Booker shortlist
09 Sep 2008, 23:09
