Comments on: 2008 CRB books of the year http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2008/12/31/2008-crb-books-of-the-year/ Bimonthly review of Caribbean literature and art Thu, 07 Nov 2013 03:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Anonymous http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2008/12/31/2008-crb-books-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Anonymous Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:15:00 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=331#comment-48 well said at 9.09 PM well said at 9.09 PM

]]> By: Anonymous http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2008/12/31/2008-crb-books-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Anonymous Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:03:00 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=331#comment-47 Very pleased to see that Jacob Ross' novel was one of your selections. I pride myself on having read a sizeable portion of Caribbean literature and this new and surprisingly fresh and profound narrative voice left me wonderstruck.<br/> Keep up the good work, CRB. Very pleased to see that Jacob Ross’ novel was one of your selections. I pride myself on having read a sizeable portion of Caribbean literature and this new and surprisingly fresh and profound narrative voice left me wonderstruck.
Keep up the good work, CRB.

]]> By: Judy http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2008/12/31/2008-crb-books-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Judy Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:09:00 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=331#comment-46 If the Naipaul bio qualifies, then what about Netherland, which I am quite sure was better by far than everything else on the list?<br/>And perhaps a simple and admirable resolution Antilles might adopt in the New year would be to stop talking down to its "dear readers"? If the Naipaul bio qualifies, then what about Netherland, which I am quite sure was better by far than everything else on the list?
And perhaps a simple and admirable resolution Antilles might adopt in the New year would be to stop talking down to its “dear readers”?

]]> By: FSJL http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2008/12/31/2008-crb-books-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-45 FSJL Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:35:00 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=331#comment-45 Reading French's biography of Naipaul, one thing that struck me (other than Naipaul having lived not that far from me in London when I was a boy), was Naipaul asking Lloyd Reckord if he knew any fast women. That's a seriously arresting image.<br/><br/>I note that Naipaul's long-time editor at André Deutsch, Diana Athill, got the OBE for services to literature in the New Year's Honours. Reading French’s biography of Naipaul, one thing that struck me (other than Naipaul having lived not that far from me in London when I was a boy), was Naipaul asking Lloyd Reckord if he knew any fast women. That’s a seriously arresting image.

I note that Naipaul’s long-time editor at André Deutsch, Diana Athill, got the OBE for services to literature in the New Year’s Honours.

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