Wednesday, March 07, 2007
DAR Wins Commonwealth Prize?
I don't quite understand how David Adams Richard's The Friends of Meager Fortune won this prize. Yes, he's a great writer, but it's not a great book, and the subject matter makes it a heck of a lot more interesting than the prose itself, which says a lot. But maybe I just need to give it another chance?
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I am in total agreement. I couldn't even get through that book, and he is one of my fave authors.
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