The Nobel Prize for Literature: A Sign of Must Reading or Kiss of Death

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: The Nobel Prize for Literature: A Sign of Must Reading or Kiss of Death

Are you more or less inclined to want to read a book by a Nobel-Prize winning author? How many of you will rush right out an load up on JM Coetzee novels?

[BurtWorm]

1. Kiss of Death

I'm guessing from the lack of responses to this very poll that most people see the words "Nobel Prize" on anything and they run in the other direction.

[LearnedHand]

2. Wrong!

I buy the books immediately, and always wait on the edge of my seat for the science, etc., awards! This stuff is IMPORTANT (and maybe the only thing left in our society that shows class, higher-order thinking, and a bit of elegance).

[On the Road]

3. Yes, If Voting Were Mandatory,

I would guess #2 would win in a landslide.

Personally, I like fiction with high literary qualities but also high entertainment value. Vladimir Nabokov and Iris Murdoch do it for me in different ways. V.S. Naipul some of the time. But a Nobel does suggest to me -- maybe unfairly -- that a book is "serious" and "artistic" in a way I might not like.

[DemExpat]

4. The winner, Coetzee, is one of my favorite authors....

nothing too complicated or 'artsy' about his books.

:kick:
DemEx