Did Peter Carey deserve his Booker?

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Well, did he?

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, Beryl Bainbridge deserved it, but she wasn't in the shortlist.
I haven't read Carey's Ned Kelly book (yet) so I can't say, but 'Jack Maggs' and 'Oscar & Lucinda' were superb. At least it wasn't Ian McEwan.

― DavidM, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah he probably did. i started re-reading The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith the other day and man, it's so twisted. but in a good way!

― katie, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

grab a handful of ass and eat it

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get thee behind me, Hanley.

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

he'a an overrated fuckknuckle - mitchell should have won.

― Geoff, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The preceding three comments gladden me greatly.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eighteen years pass...

True History of the Kelly Family has finally been adapted for film... George Mackay gets his kit off and Nicholas Hoult interrogates a baby at gunpoint, so I'll probably take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAzi43pUqoY

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 December 2019 14:41 (six years ago)

Kelly Gang, sorry

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 December 2019 14:42 (six years ago)

I’d have liked Carey to have written that one, actually. The True History of the Kelly Family

― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 22 December 2019 14:57 (six years ago)

Earl Cave and Charlie Hunnam too! yes yes I will watch this. Blonde ned seems a bit weird canonically but i am ok w it. Also: i loved the book.

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 December 2019 04:05 (six years ago)

book was fantastic, partly for the voice iirc but hell of a good story too.

― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 23 December 2019 20:22 (six years ago)

not sure how or why you'd adapt the book to film since it's just historical events with a stylish narrator. the trailer makes it look like a trainspotting knockoff.

― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 23 December 2019 20:29 (six years ago)

George Mackay fascinates me. He's so blank-looking but I like it.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 23 December 2019 20:41 (six years ago)

I wouldn't say blank-looking -- he does the Sensitive Young Men alright in Pride, Capt Fantastic etc -- but like young William Hurt he has a wide-eyed thing like he's just been whacked in the forehead with a plank. Not in this trailer though.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 December 2019 21:25 (six years ago)

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