The Booker Prize winner will be announced tomorrow, and we don't seem to have a thread about it.Post ITT with your predictions, complaints about the competition or past winners, or just a general moan about the state of contemporary literature.Finalists and odds:Marlon James "The Disappearers" 9/4Douglas Stuart "John of John" 5/2Rebecca Perry "May We Feed the King" 7/2M. John Harrison "The End of Everything" 4/1Elizabeth Strout "The Things We Never Say" 6/1Luke Kennard "Black Bag" 6/1
Marlon James will win, and next month they'll find that he wrote his book with AI.
I'm from the future. The winner of the Booker prize is going to be woke LGBTQ shit.
>>25641652I'd like Harisson's The End of Everything to win but I think you're right and The Disappearers will win.
>>25641662Crazy
>>25641634>and we don't seem to have a thread about itIt's almost like nobody gives a fuck.
>prize for books>called bookerBravo Wallace
>>25642361Not true. People like to moan about it. You wait until the winner is announced and you'll see literally dozens of angry posts about the winner, the booker prize and the state of contemporary literature in general.
>>25641634I will probably win it this year.
>>25641634Is any of those books any good?
How many booker related books to have a life beyond it being booker related?
>>25641634'OPENING POSTER HANDLES DISCUSSING 'THE BOOKER PRIZE' AS IF HE'S A BOOKIE AND AUTHORS ARE RACING HORSES'ODDS OF ORIGINAL POSTER BEING AN ILLITERATURE FAGGOT: 100:1, TRANSLATED INTO CHANCE STATISTIC: P=1.00
>>25641662OH SNAP, THAT'S ALSO IN MY DIARY DESU!
>>25641634May We Feed the King, Black Bag and The End of Everything seem interesting
>>25643343I put a five-spot on the nose for Marlon James at 5/1.
the old sci-fi writer won!
>>25644082Genuinely impressed. Good for him. Maybe /lit/ will read Viroconium or Climbers now.
>>25644082>The story takes place in a near-future south-east England devastated by the iGhetti: "monstrously sized, extremely powerful and strange lifeforms" of unknown origin and uncertain purpose. The protagonist, Philip Tennent, lives with his aunt Marnie in the coastal town of Dalston-on-Sea and ekes out a living by collecting – and endeavouring to sell – iGhetti "artefacts" that wash up on the shore. One particular artefact he finds has the potential to change their lives forever.Definitely doesn't sound like it should've won at I guess I'll wait for bongs and sci fi retards to tell me why I'm wrong.
>>25644082This was the first physical book I bought in about 10 years or so. I bought the signed edition, seemed like a good investment lol as he might croak soon.I read a pirated edition my phone tho, reading from a paper book is too corny/cumbersome.There are some very nice sentences in it
>>25643343over under on the winner being Asian female stinky lunchbox?
>>25644309>I read a pirated edition my phone tho, reading from a paper book is too corny/cumbersome.
Over his right shoulder:>SCENE WHERE BOTH LEOPARD AND TRACKERS ARE SLAVES:>THEY WEIGHED THEIR FLESH>COUNTED THEIR TEETH>MEASURERED(sic) THEIR COCKS>MEASURED THEIR BICEPSThis is the frontrunner, lol.
>>25644498>This is the frontrunner, lol.>This was the frontrunner, lol.FTFYan 81 yr old heterosexual, white fucking male won.
>>25644520>Too old and out of touch to use AIThey avoided scandal.
The part where it used to be the NO AMERICANS prize then they allowed Americans for some reason and immediately gave it to Americans twice in a row was very good. The seething was unreal.
>>25644498i read his book that was billed as the african game of thrones and it was horrible
>>25644498Guy looks insufferable
>>25644588His only good book is "seven killings...
Booker prize is ass every single year
>>25644588Why would you read a book pitched to you as an African Game of Thrones?
>>25644667it sounded interesting
>>25644685The other part of the pitch must have been really good then.
>>25644667I wanted to see if Pygmies warg.
>>25644082>won at 81There is hope for us all
>>25644082FUCK YEAHTRANSGENDERISTS ARE OFFICIALLY DONE AND DUSTEDFUCK YEAH BROS
>>25644588The only good bit was the little demons that come out of the ceiling if he sleeps under a roof. But what a bag of shite.
>>25645399you didn't like the part where he was gang-raped by a pack of hyenas?
why did they give an award to an old white guy? seems sus
>>25645452check the early life
>>25645461idk i don't see anything
>>25645452I suspect their way of AI-proofing the award is to pick an old fart who's been writing since the 60s.
>>25645510if he's old as shit maybe he's a communist or something?
>>25645518He's some 60s """anarchist"""
>>25645510Lmfao just because he doesn’t support transgenderists don’t cry broHe’s a fucking great writer
>>25644309>reading from a paper book is too corny/cumbersome.literally kys
>>25644082>based old white man wins major book award>goodreads foids seething about itpirating ts immediately
>>25644588>african game of throneslollmao even
Really glad he won. Initially I didn't expect Mike to win as there's not much hope in "the end of everything" and I thought it was a very British orientated book (booker wants to attract global interest) . A big theme or allegory running through it is the sense of ennui in the aftermath of brexit. The UK is not permitted a merciful "end of everything" . Instead we're left suspended in this new catastrophe, left “trembling on the edge of some disaster or immanence at the very limits of our perception ”. And in typically, pathetically British fashion we keep calm and carry on, we get used to it. "No one had expected the utter banality of it."But then I thought the book could easily apply to the general collapse of post cold-war liberalism in the west. We've reached the moment at which the sense of crisis has become acute but no one seems ready to accept defeat. We still think like Francis Fukuyama, even as we mock his ridiculous arguments and conclusions. I've lost my train of thought. Glad Marlon didn't win as it wasn't his best work and I think he knew that.
>>25644498Shocked he didn't win given the state of awards
>>25644601Probably plagiarized like that DEI hire at Cambridge that killed itself
>>25646103He won one already.
>>25646164It was written before AI you manky cunt
>>25646176That and the departeded isn't that great compared to seven killings or the books he wrote before it
The only white, male, heterosexual wins with a book that is devoid of identity politics and faggotry ........and /lit/ is still fucking mad.
>>25646690LMFAOYOU DONT NEED AI TO PLAGIARIZE IMAGINE KILLING YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU LIVED A LIEIM GLAD THAT DEI THING KILLED ITSELFTHE WORLD IS BETTER WITHOUT ITGO WRITE A REAL BOOK BROTHATS THE LESSONFAFO IN OTHER WORDSM JOHN HARRISON IS SO FUCKING SUPERIOR TO THAT SOCALLED “AUTHOR” YOU POSTED IT ISNT EVEN HUMANLY POSSIBLEJUST LIKE TRANSGENDERISTSTHE DEI THING WAS FAKEEVERYBODY KNEW IT BUT PEOPLE COULDNT HELP BUTDOUBLETRIPLEQUADRUPLEINFINITYDOWNON THE DEI CRAPGOOD HONEST LITERATURE WILL *NEVER* DIEWHYBECAUSE I*NEVER*LOSE
>>25646176No that thing didn’t. Literally zero actual literary awards given to that thing.
>>25646699Just goes to show that chud complaints have no real substance and it is all based in simple ignorance and resentment lol
>>25646761Ok unc serious question:Do you believe in transgenderism?
>>25646766Yeah I believe it did wonders for your sister
>>25645729why
>>25644309>I bought the signed edition, seemed like a good investment lol as he might croak soon
>>25646699>this guy writes for the biggest, stinkiest, libshit newspapers in the world>and his wife is an editor at OpenDemocracy
>>25647427>his wife is an editor at OpenDemocracywhere are you getting that from
>>25647427>>25647427Moan moan moan
>>25646787So this is what it did for my sister:She is female and was sexually assaulted when a teenager, a transgenderist talked her into believing she was “born into the wrong body” because she hated being sexually attractive because of the assault, got put on dangerous cross sex hormones, had a full double masectomy, was taken from our family because we did not affirm the delusion of “being born into the wrong family”, we were told she was a suicide risk, after two years of estrangement she finally figured out she was not “born into the wrong body” detransitioned and because she could not gain back her breasts killed herselfThat/s what transgenderists do to children.
>>25647741There are three parties in that story with culpability in your sister's suicide, not just one. Sorry that you lost her.
>>25647311it's quit obvious why, zoomer.
It is funny how much people hate this book from all directions. It is either actually truly shit or is so good at filtering people that it is genius. This book has a 2 on goodreads with most of the 2IQ slop readers describing it as difficult to read and not understanding the words on the page. I've seen right wing types complain that it is a hoity toity snob book because it isn't written like George Orwell or Tom Wolfe. Just an all around winner of a book.
>>25646699If chuds weren't in a constant state of mindless seethe they wouldn't be chuds.
>>25647757>transgenderists>the doctors bankrolling them>lawmakers (libshits)
>>25647823im 40
>>25648484why are you here, unc?
>>25649726
>>25649747ngmi
>>25648484Have you ever felt the touch and warmth of a woman?
>>25645729Foolish luddite, seek clarity and good sense. Get on with the times, uncle.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Stocking_Frames,_etc._Act_1812
