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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd go for the Hugo, because I know it's almost certainly going to be something I'll enjoy.
The "mainstream" book awards - the Booker prize, for example - seem to always go the "highbrow art" books which I wouldn't read in a million years  . |
You see, I don't mind the Booker prize, because its books aren't always completely highbrow (and I promise I am not biased by the fact that the only two people to have one twice are Australian
). Peter Carey, J.M.Coetzee (thought I'd just pop them in first
), Margaret Atwood, Graham Swift, Roddy Doyle (my favourite), Thomas Keneally, Salman Rushdie...all of them are fairly easy reading in that they don't delve into
Gravity's Rainbow-like difficulty. Hell, even Iris Murdoch's
The Sea, The Sea is quite approachable (if, for me, unlikable).
I still think Roddy Doyle deserved the Booker in 1991 for
The Van, which would have made him the first two-times winner.
I agree though...I'm far more likely to enjoy a Hugo than a Booker.
Cheers,
Marc