The Sense of an Ending

Another Booker Prize nominee and the actual Booker Mann winner. This is the most obviously well written of the others I have read this year. It is such an English book. Very very crisp and clean story of an older man looking back on an episode in  his young adulthood. Compared to Pigeon English or Jamrach's Menagerie Julian Barnes writes in such a thoughtful, intellectual way, he sets out to examine the nature of history and memory and explores them through the narrative in this novella. The other two novels just sweep you away in a voice or an adventure and while they completely contain you and move you, it's your heart that reacts. Julian Barnes goes for the brain. Completely different organs.

So all of them are excellent but to say one is better than another is comparing apples and oranges.....hey wait, isn't there the Orange Prize? So all we need is an Apple Prize and we can scrap the Booker.