Booker List discussion

I've just started Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"; Achebe won the International Booker Prize in 2007. This is my first Achebe book and the first book I've read by an author that has won the International Booker Prize

I'm reading The Luminaries. If I don't poke my eyes out by the end I'll let you know. Nothing happens. If you like that, this book is for you.

Are you still in Part 1 if so that does go on a bit hut I got into it surprinsgly - it was the last 5 or 6 parts that cover less than 50 pages that irritated me.

I've just started unexploded from last years longlist.

I've just started Julian Barnes's Arthur and George from the booker shortlist- I love Julian Barnes so I'm hoping this will be good!

Just finished Jumpa Lahiri's The Lowland, shortlisted for 2013. It's the story of two brothers growing up in post-independence India, and eventually one of them goes to the US to study. The characters are well fleshed-out, but as I read the first part, set in Kolkata during the Naxalite movement, I could sense the author's labors on her research on the subject. Lahiri is an outstanding writer to be sure, but I wouldn't put her in the same level as Rohinton Mistry, whose great eye for detail and flowing narrative engross the reader totally.

I'm reading a wonderful short story collection by Man Booker International Prize nominee Josip Novakovich.

I'm reading Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002.

I'm struggling with The Luminaries, but am determined to finish it.

Started Disgrace, the 1999 winner, totally sailing through it, don't think it'll take me very long to finish this