I was going to put these into two different posts but they’re so similar that I decided to link them. Both of these books won the Booker Prize in their respective years, early to mid 90s and early 2000s. And in both cases, I can’t imagine a less good or less interesting book to win. It seems like for both, there was a kind of “this will shake things up” kind of element to their winning that it’s everything bad I can imagine about prizes. […]