{"id":4489,"date":"2008-10-14T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2008-10-14T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:13:00","slug":"readable-and-page-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/readable-and-page-turning\/","title":{"rendered":"Readable And Page-Turning?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alison Flood writes<\/a> in The Guardian<\/i> that this years Booker Prize judges have described the books on the shortlist as “intensely readable” and “page-turning”, but junta doesn’t think so. <\/p>\n

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This year the lifetime [sales] figures for the six shortlisted titles are 32,342 – less than this year’s edition of the Guinness World Records achieved in a week. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[Linda] Grant’s “The Clothes on their Backs”, about a young woman’s fascination with the black sheep of her family, has sold 3,074 copies in the four weeks since the shortlist announcement, according to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan – considerably more than second placed Aravind Adiga, whose “The White Tiger” has racked up 2,588 sales since the announcement on September 9.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These are stunningly low figures, and I’m quite taken aback. Clearly the prize doesn’t cast quite the aura it once used to. It will be awarded sometime today, and I hope whoever wins is rewarded by a massive rise in sales. Otherwise what’s the point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alison Flood writes<\/a> in The Guardian<\/i> that this years Booker Prize judges have described the books on the shortlist as “intensely readable” and “page-turning”, but junta doesn’t think so. <\/p>\n

\n

This year the lifetime [sales] figures for the six shortlisted titles are 32,342 – less than this year’s edition of the Guinness World Records achieved in a week. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[Linda] Grant’s “The Clothes on their Backs”, about a young woman’s fascination with the black sheep of her family, has sold 3,074 copies in the four weeks since the shortlist announcement, according to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan – considerably more than second placed Aravind Adiga, whose “The White Tiger” has racked up 2,588 sales since the announcement on September 9.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These are stunningly low figures, and I’m quite taken aback. Clearly the prize doesn’t cast quite the aura it once used to. It will be awarded sometime today, and I hope whoever wins is rewarded by a massive rise in sales. 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