Kern wrote:
Went onto the local library service's website today and reserved every single entry on
the Booker shortlist so that I can finally start my
New Year challenge! If nobody returns a book by next month, I might have to actually buy one or two of them.
Finished Paul Beatty's 'The Sell-Out'. Some laugh-out-load parts and many brilliantly worded ramblings but once you get past the humour and the whole shock value* the thing gets wrapped up pretty quickly. Some of the humour relies on detailed knowledge of American culture so I probably missed out on some of it. I'd never heard of the little rascals, for instance. I'll probably re-read it, or at least dip into it to relish and savour the author's turn of phrase.
Now to start the second book on the shortlist: Szalzy's 'All that man is'.
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* a black man with a slave and trying to reintroduce segregation to give his community back its sense of identity, all whilst using the Bad Word repeatedly