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As much as the circumstances behind Pasternak's not accepting the Nobel Prize are disgusting and wrong, he shouldn't have won in the first place. Zhivago is such poo poo.
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Currently reading The Enigma Of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul, the 2001 winner. I am seriously underwhelmed. I remember reading the beginning of John Steinbeck's East of Eden and thinking, 'drat, this description of the Salinas valley just goes on and on'. It extended for ten whole pages, no action, just describing the valley. It's the same here except it just doesn't end. Every couple of sentences there's some Hemingway-an description of the landscape and it really just gets tedious. So far I am just really bored. I've heard it picks up around the half-way point, so I'm going to keep reading, but so far really unimpressed.
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