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[b]Mart wrote:[/b]
[quote]I have only read one Indian novel, which was about 30 years ago, I don`t have a copy anymore,(no idea of the title) but it was so well written that to this day I still recall a brilliant and descriptive line which said that the woman, as the main character went near her smelt of the &quot;stale end of a cucumber&quot;.
An incredibly strange and quite horrid observation, but it does show the power of literature in how I have never forgotten the line.

There are very few passages in books that stay with us for all time after one reading (studying does not count), I wonder if the Booker Prize people take this into consideration?

We finish books and often only feel that we achieved something by doing so.

Indian music, another thing altogether, I love the culture of how they put the &quot;notes between the notes&quot; against Western music scales.
Mick Karn from the band Japan illustrated this superbly on pop hits in the 80`s on a western bass guitar instrument, by playing the notes not in the general scales.

A great musician, wonder what he is doing now?[/quote]

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Mart	I have only read one Indian novel, which was about 30 years ago, I don`t have a copy anymore,(no idea of the title) but it was so well written that to this day I still recall a brilliant and descriptive line which said that the woman, as the main character went near her smelt of the "stale end of a cucumber". An incredibly strange and quite horrid observation, but it does show the power of literature in how I have never forgotten the line. There are very few passages in books that stay with us for all time after one reading (studying does not count), I wonder if the Booker Prize people take this into consideration? We finish books and often only feel that we achieved something by doing so. Indian music, another thing altogether, I love the culture of how they put the "notes between the notes" against Western music scales. Mick Karn from the band Japan illustrated this superbly on pop hits in the 80`s on a western bass guitar instrument, by playing the notes not in the general scales. A great musician, wonder what he is doing now?
JK2006	It's interesting that The White Tiger has won the Booker. Looking forward to reading it but my favourite finalist last year was Animal's People - another Indian novel. It failed to win and the one that did (about an Irish funeral) was the only one of the six I didn't like. One of the three other first novel winners in the history of the Booker was the fabulous God Of Small Things. And of course, bloody unreadable Rushdie is constantly winning the best of prizes. There is something very interesting coming out of Indian literature. And Bollywood in films, of course. How about music?