Can't help feeling sorry for someone at the BBC...

[joanofarchitrave]

They've made an absolute cockup of the Booker prize announcement, anyone else watching?

We watched...in disbelief. I turned over from Professor Brian Cox for that!
And he was looking all sciencey and gorgeous and saying meaningful things.
The winning book sounds good though and will go on my list.

Didn't see it. What happened?

What happened?

What happened? I was following the bbc arts twitter feed hoping for a result, but couldn't see anything.

In fact, who won? I still can't find a result.

I found it. I think that was the right decision, although i was also hoping for Ali Smith.

What happened - pre-announcement discussion with Andrew Motion and Gaby [momentary lapse of attention] and [presenter]. And they kept trying to go over to the speeches from the platform but couldn't get the sound to work. Not beforehand, we missed the announcement but [presenter] chimed in and then we couldn't hear Richard Flanagan's speech either.

A tad shit, frankly. Though the book sounds good.

Yes, the book does sound good. Has anyone read it yet? The only one I've read on the list was the Karen Joy Fowler one.

Ooh was it good?

I loved The Finkler Question so would like to read J though it sounds very different. I still haven't got beyond page 12 of The Luminaries though so am somewhat behind, Booker-wise.

I really liked the Karen Joy Fowler one (seems to have a mixed reception on Mumsnet, though!) Although I normally like Howard Jacobson I'm putting off J as it sounds heavy-going.