I missed the longlist announcement, but I saw the shortlist today. Except for two books that go back a few centuries, all the finalists are 20th century history. If it’s not your wheelhouse, it’s not a good shortlist for you. For my part, I quite like it. I like recent history. My main beef with the choices is that most of them are giant bricks of 800 pages. Even if I just wanted to read the three finalists, there is no guarantee I would have time to read them before the winner is announced…
If you're not interested in very many of these books, don't force yourself to read them. They're going on various lists of mine for future reference, but I probably won't get to them either, at least in the near future.
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I missed the longlist announcement, but I saw the shortlist today. Except for two books that go back a few centuries, all the finalists are 20th century history. If it’s not your wheelhouse, it’s not a good shortlist for you. For my part, I quite like it. I like recent history. My main beef with the choices is that most of them are giant bricks of 800 pages. Even if I just wanted to read the three finalists, there is no guarantee I would have time to read them before the winner is announced…
This year's prize is definitely an off year for me.
If you're not interested in very many of these books, don't force yourself to read them. They're going on various lists of mine for future reference, but I probably won't get to them either, at least in the near future.
@@TimeTravelReads You're right. After sleeping on it, I'm going to pass on this year's prize.