My Live Reaction To Booker Shortlist | Booker 2020
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- čas přidán 14. 09. 2020
- It's Kamil here, with a quick live reaction to Booker Shortlist.
Booker longlist:
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
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The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
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Real Life by Brandon Taylor
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So happy to see your live reaction Kamil! So many books to read! And what a scandal Hillary Mantel not being shortlisted haha
I won’t be surprised if she stops writing. In serious note though I’d be surprised if she cared
I agree. I remember reading Mantel will stop writing historical fiction, and may dive in short stories! She wants to live some life with her remaining days :)
I loved this video! I had zero own thoughts on the list but you keep me up to date 😅 also you convinced me to pick up Wolf Hall sometime.
It’s brilliant
So cool to see your live reaction of the list. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching
Thanks for the video Kamil
Thank you so much for watching
Great Video! I am not altogether disappointed. I think there was some really great picks. I just wish Zhang was on there. :(
Yes, shame it’s not here
I think they have had their share of controversy by giving Atwood the prize last year, and they dared to include Mantel in the long list. So, they have focused on shortlisting debut authors this year. Too much flack came their way when Mantel got to the longlist(Even I was a part of it because it is unprecedented and objective to include known and popular authors and drag them to winning almost every year) I hope the best one wins.
I think this award should be about literary merit so it shouldn’t matter who wrote a book. Its about literary merit. Mantel is fantastic so deserved the spot. It’s quite understandable why big names are on those lists, they are big names for the reason (most of the time). There are different awards for debut writers so that’s the place where those type of highlighting of new voices should be taking place. However If those debut writers are producing great works as those here I’m all for them to take the spot on booker shortlist.
So good to hear from you tonight. These all sound interesting - I’ll be looking forward to seeing you review them. I finished The Overstory today. There was a lot that I liked about it, but I found the ending to be underwhelming. And the characters’ romance with the trees to be overdone. But that’s how literature works with the suspension of disbelief. Now I’m reading Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago, historical fiction taking place in 18th century Portugal. Fifty some pages in and I’m loving it.
Thank you Kathleen for watching. This Saramago novel is still on my TBR list. My partner loves it, I should pick it up soon.
Had to put down Shuggie Bain less than a quarter in. Well-written or not, I just can't handle another slide into debauchery tale. I'd love to understand better why many find it fine literature. Looking forward to your review.
My socks weren’t falling off either when I was listening to it, but will try to pick it up in a physical copy to see how that goes.
Adore Mirror and the Light - but still loved the shortlist this year!
Yes, quite refreshing
COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED!
Wasn’t it
I’m really curious and excited by the shortlist. I haven’t read any of the ones shortlisted but surprisingly, I’m interested in all of them and also haven’t heard many terrible things about them. I don’t really care if or if not Mantel was shortlisted since the other books seem to be deserving of a spot on the shortlist, even if they can’t be compared to Mantel. A lot of what I’ve been hearing about her has been about her being a prolific author versus the book itself, which is also why I’m inclined to not be bothered by it at all.
Have you read Wolf Hall or Bring up the bodies?
@@WhatKamilReads haha, I wasn't denying her artistic abilities. I was more so talking about how it probably doesn't affect her since she's already a big name
Love these live videos.....but Real Life brilliant???....🤦🏻♀️
Will explain in my video and pay attention to brilliant “little” book 😊
It's a great shortlist. Interesting year for the Booker. Can't wait. I suppose with all that has happened in 2020 it is only natural that the prize be more inclusive. This taking nothing away from the brilliance of the writers' work. Have heard great things of all the shortlisted books and personally loved The Shadow King! Your Hilary humor....lol
What do you think now, that the award was given to Suggie Bain?
I am deeply disappointed that Apeirogon didn’t make the list - it is so inventive and well-crafted. Choices such as New Wilderness puzzle me.
Yes, I am too bcs of the the fantastic book it is, but this sexual harassment business McCann is involved with is very nasty so I can understand the fear of booker being involved with it... a difficult thing to judge, on one hand literary merit should rule but then when you give money to an individual ...
Thanks a bunch, dear friend.🇷🇺
Good morning, dear Kamil!
Where're you originally from?
What did you graduated from?
Greetings from Moscow, Russia.🇷🇺
Poland, I graduated from law and political science, work in finance though.
@@WhatKamilReads Thank you very much!
I’d be interested in your thoughts on the new wilderness I really didn’t get along with it. I felt a book about meandering around a wilderness literally felt quite meandering and most of the action was done after part 1- I assume it only made it because it’s about climate change and the world is burning down and there are like 5 hurricanes coming at us at a time but still I did not enjoy that read at all.
I had a similar feelings, I talk a bit about it in my Booker Reaction video.
Loving this shortlist! Hillary. who?
😂😂 yes, I think it’s quite refreshing
I was so disappointed...
:( its true. its so potent in your review!
wait till you read How Much of These Hills is Gold. you'll be even more crushed. :D
Zimm Reads I need to start it soon! But I need to finish my current read first, then I will know which side of the argument I am in
I’ll watch you reaction tomorrow
Very disappointed with the judges. Makes me question the validity of the Booker as a worthwhile prize to follow.
Because of Mantel or something else?
@@WhatKamilReads partially Mantel but I think in recent years, the prize has elevated qualities other than penmanship. That's not to say the books selected are poor - no doubt they are all of a high standard - no, it's more that factors such as diversity of authorship, the premise of the book (rather than how well it is actually written) and whether the author has any black marks against their name in terms of personal controversy, all seem to have vastly superceded the actual quality of the book itself. Apeirogon blasts the socks off Shuggie Bain for example...I'm sure that others have a different opinion but when I saw the shortlist, I just thought 'Uuuuuugh...'. Having said all that, there will always be SOME value to the prize, as it will no doubt spark interest from those who might only read a select handful of books a year.
Come on...Real Life sucks
But what sucks about it?
WhatKamilReads the characters 😭😭 oh my god, the characters. Wallace and his constant forgiving of horrible behaviour towards him. Like, what was that ending? Sorry, pass 😅
Harry Leighton yes, of course but that was exactly for the reason of recreating the frustration a reader felt reading Yanagihara’s A little life. When reading Taylor I felt like screaming “for fuck sake, say something to these bunch racist morons” ... but that was the point I felt.
WhatKamilReads I didn’t get that feeling at all in a little life 🙈 I think the backstory should have been more fleshed out for Wallace instead of only having nine pages
WhatKamilReads that being said..I did really like the dinner party section. And some of the social commentary was really well done. But I don’t think it should have been in the shortlist 😳😢