Comments on: Our Dark Horse https://booksquare.com/our-dark-horse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=our-dark-horse Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/our-dark-horse/#comment-119 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:00:56 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/08/27/550/#comment-119 I’m quite amused by the handicapping of the awards –in a way, it restores my faith in readers. And the press, at least in the UK. I’ve pre-ordered the Clark book — the Napoleonic Wars were truly one of the most fascinating periods of modern (such as it is) history — from a societal and technological perspective. Plus it sounds like a fun story (yes, deeply intellectual, that’s me!).

Gwenda — thanks so much for the mini-review. Almost makes me wish I were still in the “getting lots of ARCs” game…alas, I can’t be a fair reviewer. Too much mental rewriting of perfectly good sentences so they’ll read the way I’d write them.

]]> By: gwenda https://booksquare.com/our-dark-horse/#comment-108 Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:49:39 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/08/27/550/#comment-108 Maybe it’s because they made so many ARC’s? I’ve been reading Clarke’s book with great pleasure and was very happy to see it on the list.

]]> By: Dan Wickett https://booksquare.com/our-dark-horse/#comment-105 Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:04:35 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/08/27/550/#comment-105 Ah Booksquare, remember that last year, Vernon God Little was not the favorite. Not at all, yet it walked away with the prize.

I too look forward to Clark’s novel and have a copy on the way. I did read the Adichie Purple Hibiscus and can say that I thought it was an incredible novel, let alone how impressive it was as a debut novel.

Enjoy,

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