The Man Booker Prize is just based on who is cool and quirky to like at the time, decided by a group of people who probably aren't that dissimilar to Will Self. It's up there with the Turner Prize and Mercury Music Award for bullshit "let's be a bit different and crazy" type awards.
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Yes but does he really need to use a complex word in every sentence? Surely if you want to get a point across it's a lot more effective to use words that most people understand, except on the VERY RARE occasions when there aren't any mainstream words to get exactly what you mean.
I just caught some of that on the TV in our "social area", she was suggesting we have PORRIDGE for breakfast at Christmas. Yes that's exactly what I'll do, maybe I'll have a caesar salad for lunch too.
As for Will Self, his stupid whiny voice just emphasises the ego-enhancing shit that comes...