And so the days are filled...
I love that there are Booker bookies. And what a great goal - to read all the winners (although I always hear the best books are overlooked). I may take a look at that list and join you, although I've got a lot of books to catch up on!
I'm full of admiration for your Booker reading. Though putting yourself through such an ordeal reminds me of school dinners at Kinsale Ave Junior, when we had egg-and-bacon pie (smelled like sick) and boiled grey cabbage ...
I happened to love Midnight's Children, but little else from the Booker schedule has inspired me. Bought The Sea last year and couldn't be bothered with more than about 20 pages.
You sure you want to go on with this when the 2008 list emerges?
This is the funniest, most honest review I've read in years. And I read a lot of them, in my job. A book about nothing, for 800+ pages? That's a lot of good knitting time wasted. 
Love this! Rohinton Mistry (love all three of those books), Life of Pi (just finished, had issues with some of the technique but oh what an ending), Booker life list crib sheet, hilarious non-review .... good stuff.
and to top it off, a dame edna reference.
Nice.
Reading the Booker Prize short lists, I realize exactly how much contemporary AMERICAN literature I read! I do believe I'll start on some of the winners to even things out a bit.
It's strange... I've read a few Rushdie books, and enjoyed them (The Moor's Last Sigh in particular), and started Midnight's Children. Oh, the detailed, lush, silly descriptiveness of it! I loved it so much I recommended it to several family members, all of whom bought it and started reading.
None of us finished. Somewhere very near the middle I just got tired of all the lush, digressive, magical, descriptive, ironic... just... so... tired. So you're not alone. Some of us just took a while to dislike this book. The dislike had to grow on us.
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