Tim Worstall

Blooker Winner

So we have the winner of the inaugural Blooker:

The first Blooker Prize – for books that began life as
"blogs" (weblogs) on the worldwide web – was awarded last night to
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, an
American cult book about "extreme cooking" that has been described as
Nigella Lawson meets Bridget Jones.

British hopes
had been pinned on Belle de Jour: Intimate Adventures of a London Call
Girl, a book that grew out of an anonymous "blog" serialising the
reputed diary of a prostitute that caused a minor sensation two years
ago with up to 15,000 people a day logging on to its website.

British hopes were, in reality, focused on THE BOOK …..which didn’t even make the short list. You can read the whole thing online here.

Still, a worthy winner and all that.

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3 responses

  1. Scott Campbell at Blithering Bunny Avatar
    Scott Campbell at Blithering Bunny

    I think bloggers should give these competitions the cold shoulder. Blogs are supposed to be a way of getting through to people directly without the roadblocks set up in the way by the self-appointed elite. Literary prizes are — to some degree, I don’t want to overstate this — part of that mechanism. So screw ’em.

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  2. Andrew Duffin Avatar
    Andrew Duffin

    Just out of interest, did we ever find out who that “London Call Girl” actually was?
    I recall reading a few of the posts and thinking that it was almost certainly written by a man.
    Did I miss the denouement?
    Tim adds: Not as far as I know. Still writes the occasional post as well.

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  3. Andrew Ian Dodge Avatar
    Andrew Ian Dodge

    Tim was robbed!

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