Monday, July 03, 2006
Orange Award Announced.
I have been hearing Zadie Smith's name for all too long now to not have read anything. Well, kind of. I picked up "On Beauty" a while back in the bookstore when some friends decided to read her, but was bored before the first paragraph ended. Be it my mood, or my taste I don't know. But apparently most people disagree with me, the 2006 Winner for The Orange Award for Fiction is none other than Zadie Smith's "On Beauty." Doesn't mean I will read it, but it does mean that maybe I should reconsider.
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I don't think you were alone in being bored. I had to read it for my book club and found it taxing and boring and even annoying. But then around page 150 it finally got good. Unfortunately, I lost my copy on a camping trip right when it got good and haven't gone and finished it yet.
I will say that every time I read a book about academia, it gives me a resolve to not want to be around those people in any way, shape, or form...
White Teeth was one of those precocious works that comes along once in our lifetime; however, I can't vouch for her later stuff. Salman Rushdie--not too bad himself--was praising her endlessly in the early part of the millennium.
I have been interested in reading "White Teeth" for a while now. I suppose, with praise from both Bryant AND Salman Rushdie I should push it up to the top of the reading list.
accorinding to the times, on beauty should have won the booker, too.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2249529,00.html
Should have won...despite the fact that it wasn't finished for the deadline...
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