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Clearly, Amsterdam owes its Booker to committee embarrassment over not tapping (or even shortlisting) Enduring Love . It's rather like the Nobel committee's honoring Hemingway for his vapid The Old Man and the Sea . This leads me to realize that "minor" is most often used as a synonym for "bad" or "short."