October 2011

A plague on both your houses: should a book be well written, or a good read?

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I’ve given this blog a kick to wake it from its slumber, so that I can rant a little: Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song… There’s been a debate, here in the UK, sparked by The Booker prize. It’s a literary prize for the year’s best novel. It’s been controversial this year, [...]

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