Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!whuxle!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!drux3!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbscd5!trb From: trb@cbscd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Nobel Prize to William Golding Message-ID: <765@cbscd5.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 05:39:26 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscd5.765 Posted: Wed Oct 12 05:39:26 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 23:35:44 EDT References: <176@laidbak.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 22 Concerning other books by Golding; I have read two of his "older" works that I found very entertaining and thought provoking. The first is "Pincher Martin" which is about a survivor (?) of a torpedoed British destroyer who finds himself on a small (6' x 6') rock in the middle of the ocean (there is more to the story, but I do not want to be a spoiler). The second is "The Inheritors" which describes the rise of the Neanderthals from the point of view of one of the "people" in the tribe that they displace. These are not light reading, but very enjoyable. His latest (which I have not read) is "Darkness Visible". There are many more which I have not been able to find in bookstores, but a good library should have them (?). I have not heard of any grumblings becasue of Golding winning the prize, but I personally would have liked to have seen John Gardner ("Grendel","The Sunshine Dialogues",etc.) receive a posthumous award (is that done?).