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Frederik Backman Fans: News

LoriLori — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:52:01 GMT

In June of 2018 a sequel to "Beartown" will be published in English. The title is "Us Against You." It continues where "Beartown" left off.

Interesting fact, the name was changed for the U.S. -- "Beartown" was published in the UK and Australia as "Scandal." This happened with "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" also. It was published in the UK etc. as "My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises."

I wonder what is it about US that we need different titles? Like "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" instead of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", everywhere else.

"Deal of a Lifetime" was released here today (and oh, the feels) and film rights have already been purchased here, by the indie company that adapted "Room" for film.

And there's going to be an American remake of "A Man Called Ove" produced by and starring Tom Hanks. The Swedish film was perfection so I have mixed feelings, but given that they're doing it Tom Hanks is a perfect choice.

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Wendy Lou Hoo — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:22:41 GMT

I wanted to be a Frederik Backman fan, but when I read "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry", they kept feeding that poor dog chocolate. Chocolate is poison to dogs, so that ruined the story for me. I haven't read "A Man Called Ove", but may later on.

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CareBears — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:06:45 GMT

@LoriLori Yes, YES & YES! One happy camper hearing this news!

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insomniac2 — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:19:12 GMT

I think it's ridiculous that Tom Hanks is going to remake an absolutely PERFECT movie.

I've always liked Hanks, but this smacks of greed.

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insomniac2 — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:24:03 GMT

WendyLooWho, I kept wondering about that chocolate bit too. (Of course, the animal was not technically a dog, but still. . .)

While I'm about it, I loved A Man Called Ove, disliked Britt-Marie was Here, and am quite indifferent to the Grandmother book.

I'm off Backman for a while.

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LoriLori — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:28:52 GMT

@insomniac2 wrote:
I think it's ridiculous that Tom Hanks is going to remake an absolutely PERFECT movie.

I've always liked Hanks, but this smacks of greed.

@insomniac2, it is standard Hollywood to remake a foreign-language film based on a book that was a bestseller in English. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the two sequels, for example.. "The Snowman." It happens quite often.

I don't judge a film that hasn't even been made yet; I don't judge a film until I see it. That Tom Hanks is executive producing is a good sign and he certainly doesn't need to do it out of greed.

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LoriLori — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:31:35 GMT

@CareBears wrote:
@LoriLori Yes, YES & YES! One happy camper hearing this news!

@CareBears, great to see you here. It's a free forum yet I didn't expect Backman to get slammed in this thread LOL....So "The Deal of a Lifetime" is a deeply moving book and IMO one you want to own it so you can read it over and over. It's only 62 pages and that's with illustrations. It's so beautiful.

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CareBears — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:33:17 GMT

@insomniac2 I have read that a few people have had problems with Britt Marie, I loved her, and want him to continue on with her character. And I actually bought the Grandmother book, and refer back to it often, I am somewhat like Britt Marie, I am not comfortable in social settings, I am OCD in organization, and cannot stand anything out of place, and love my alone time, I am not as severe as Britt=Marie, but I loved how Fredrick (notice we are on the first name basis) developed Britt-Marie over time, and when I turned the last page that Britt-Marie was featured in, I said aloud I am going to miss you Britt-Marie, I just love everything he writes so much! Not maybe as much as LoriLori, but almost , LOL!

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kitty45 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:53:58 GMT

Beartown is up for best fiction on Goodreads. I haven't read it so I didn't vote for it.

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Judaline — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:04:22 GMT

@CareBears wrote:
@insomniac2 I have read that a few people have had problems with Britt Marie, I loved her, and want him to continue on with her character. And I actually bought the Grandmother book, and refer back to it often, I am somewhat like Britt Marie, I am not comfortable in social settings, I am OCD in organization, and cannot stand anything out of place, and love my alone time, I am not as severe as Britt=Marie, but I loved how Fredrick (notice we are on the first name basis) developed Britt-Marie over time, and when I turned the last page that Britt-Marie was featured in, I said aloud I am going to miss you Britt-Marie, I just love everything he writes so much! Not maybe as much as LoriLori, but almost , LOL!

Uh-oh, looks like I'd better read the Britt Marie book. That's me, too, carebears. She must be really cool

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Judaline — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:10:12 GMT

@LoriLori I just had a flashback of me in London. Went to a bookstore and my favorite author prevailed there!!! (she was English, Catherine Cookson). I was in book heaven. All of these books I had never heard of! I bought them all-paperbacks. When I started reading them it hit me. I had read them all, under different names in US. In my haste to grab them, I neglected reading the (formerly blah, blah, blah notice) or however it was worded. A real shockeroo. So there they sit in my bookcase, untouched, but it lifts my spirits just to think of them.

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LoriLori — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:03:11 GMT

@Judaline, I love that story! Thanks!

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QVCkitty1 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 02:04:17 GMT

@Wendy Lou Hoo wrote:
I wanted to be a Frederik Backman fan, but when I read "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry", they kept feeding that poor dog chocolate. Chocolate is poison to dogs, so that ruined the story for me. I haven't read "A Man Called Ove", but may later on.

When I was a kid I had a poodle named Angel. We didn't know about chocolate being bad for dogs, she ate chocolate and drank cocoa. We were very fortunate, as she lived almost 18 years. When I learned about chocolate later, I was horrified, we were so lucky.

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CareBears — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 02:48:51 GMT

@Judaline I think you almost have to be somewhat like Britt-Marie to understand her, I identified with her right away, she is afraid to show the world her true self as her self image is just not there, but you know she has a beautiful heart she just has trouble showing it to people as she has been hurt so much in the past, she puts up the walls to protect herself, I have done that most of my life, so I think Britt-Marie & myself could be soul sisters, LOL!

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insomniac2 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 07:51:42 GMT

I actually enjoyed the character Britt-Marie, but her practice of feeding a rat Snickers bars repulsed me.

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LoriLori — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:49:11 GMT

@Judaline, I have a huge fear of rodents but I hope you don't let the above comment deter you. Britt-Marie feeding the rat a Snickers is part of her opening herself up to the world and to some of us it's as lovely as it is gross LOL.

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sunala — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 02:23:36 GMT

@CareBears wrote:
@insomniac2 I have read that a few people have had problems with Britt Marie, I loved her, and want him to continue on with her character. And I actually bought the Grandmother book, and refer back to it often, I am somewhat like Britt Marie, I am not comfortable in social settings, I am OCD in organization, and cannot stand anything out of place, and love my alone time, I am not as severe as Britt=Marie, but I loved how Fredrick (notice we are on the first name basis) developed Britt-Marie over time, and when I turned the last page that Britt-Marie was featured in, I said aloud I am going to miss you Britt-Marie, I just love everything he writes so much! Not maybe as much as LoriLori, but almost , LOL!

@CareBears- I also had a problem with Britt-Marie. I tried two times to read it, but I pulled the bookmark when the rat came out. Nothing made sense to me, and I didn't understand what those noisy kids were talking about.

Nope, not for me. I loved Ove but this one...feh.

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CareBears — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 02:31:12 GMT

I have actually had 3 pet rats, Susie, Katie & Sallie, very loving animals, they each had their own little personalities, I think rats are adoable!

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Judaline — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:09:11 GMT

@LoriLori Since I just read Britt-Marie, I didn't see this reply , but kind of came looking for it and glad you felt like I did about the rat. I loved that part. I guess because I love animals, but there was so much more to it. The woman is so lonely she has to have someone to talk to. And she picks a rat. So cute. It shows what a big heart she has. But dinner at six kills me, hahahahaha

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insomniac2 — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 23:00:24 GMT

My primary issue with the rat is that I believe there would ultimately be a whole mess of them.

Yuck.