Betting on the Man Booker prize has been suspended “after a flurry of bets supporting Tom McCarthy’s novel C.” How many bets, exactly, is a “flurry” you ask?
“The bookmaker’s spokesperson David Williams said £15,000-worth of bets were placed on C on Wednesday morning, completely outstripping all earlier betting on the prize, which had previously totaled just £10,000 since the announcement of the longlist in July.”
Daaaaaaaamn.
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Okay, I’ve just read 2 books on the long list – Harold Jacobson (which made the short list) and David Mitchell (which did not) – and I really think the committee is totally messed up in its choice of Jacobson over Mitchell (see my review of The Finkler Question – http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/114180823).
But that aside, I don’t know why, if you read reviews and blurbs on the shortlist, you wouldn’t vote on C. It is the logical choice? But that is still funny that they suspended betting.
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