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I am gonna play devil's advocate here.....I think this WILL be the end of books..or, not their end exactly but they will become very rare and expensive (shorter print runs) and therefore luxury items only. It is already almost impossible to run an independent bookshop with physical books.

Oh I just looked at Elling. Ya totally sold me on it. But I think I will watch the film (original Norwegian version) before I read any of the books. Was there ever an American version in the end? I DETEST it so much when Hollywood has to make an American version of a successful film and usually mess it up

Going to amazon to check out Across the Universe ......

Still have not read them all (Something I must redress this year) but so far it is P & P all the way...read that 4 times and enjoyed both the films. (Also I have read Northanger Abbey and Persuasion: both good)

Thanks Frankie I will check out Elling I have one locked in the basement that I feed on bread and water I hope he doesn't die before I get hold of the books.

Find someone Norwegian to translate them for me. The books I want were written by Norwegian army officers after the war, talking about the events of the German invasion in 1940; I have a "thing" about Norway in general and that time in particular. The stories of brave people like Anne Margarete Bang at Hegra... Have you seen the film Max Manus Frankie?

Hi Brian I liked your book reviews . I read The Reluctant Fundamentalist last year and reviewed it on here somewhere. I will be interested what you think of it, the style the book is written in and the main character too.

I looked at your discard list Kylie, Daphne Du Maurier jumped out, I have always felt strange about her, I know she was supposed to be super intelligent and liberated and all that but I heard in her private life was not very nice person. Not that that's got much to do with anything you were talking about ! I would also like to know what Billy is....does it have wheels?

Going off on a tangent, but when I turn off the kindle pictures of various authors replace the text on the page and one of them is Jane Austen. I feel a weird connection to her sometimes, that she lived so long ago yet speaks to me so easily through her writing. Men are not supposed to have a JA connection

Hi Frankie I am so glad that they did that for you. Now I can perhaps look for some out of print Norwegian books I have been Jonesing for a long time, or at least send an email in English to enquire. Great stuff !

I just spent a whole hour writing a massive review of another book and intended to copy it just in case so I did not lose it; then pressed control v instead of control c and the whole thing disappeared. I am sulking now so going to do some reading...

Thanks Chesilbeach. I will certainly look for more of her work.

Review: Out of India by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala I enjoyed this collection of short stories immensely. Not a very good analogy I know, but if life in India was a big cucumber then these are like little slices of that cucumber, each one acutely observed . The writing is a joy and the author does not shy away from any difficult subject of human interaction; in fact most (but not all)of the stories are about illicit sexual relationships of one kind or another. This was very interesting to me right now, as I know from recent experience that women do not believe marriage to be the invioable contract I always thought it was. I would read anything written by this lady in the future.

Review: Out of India by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala I enjoyed this collection of short stories immensely. Not a very good analogy I know, but if life in India was a big cucumber then these are like little slices of that cucumber, each one acutely observed . The writing is a joy and the author does not shy away from any difficult subject of human interaction; in fact most (but not all)of the stories are about illicit sexual relationships of one kind or another. This was very interesting to me right now, as I know from recent experience that women do not believe marriage to be the invioable contract I always thought it was. I would read anything written by this lady in the future.

Lol so WAP still might end up being the last one you finish in 2011 Vinay!

Don't feel guilty just pick one and start reading.... Just checked your list and I haven't read any of those..what is Slap about?

At my fingertips so many stories all so juicy what is a guy to do?

Quick update: I have sort of got kindle fever. Don't know how else to describe it. I downloaded another 20 books onto my device. Some were freebies and a couple I paid for. Trouble is I keep flicking from one to another. I am reading lots but not of any one book. This is wrecking my reading plan for January

Kylie 400 books that is incredible. I felt sort of oppressed last year when my TBR pile got over 10. I don't think it was ever more than 20. I read all but 2 of my TBR in the end.