Björn recenserade The Water Dancer av Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Not sure what to make of this. Maybe it's the Swedish translation, maybe it's the bit where RL forced me to take a long break in the middle of the book, maybe it's just me, but I couldn't quite get into this. Which is a real shame because when it's good, it's really good; a story that starts out like one man's story and expands to take on a whole national myth. There are just a few too many bits where the narration feels more Coates than Walker, where the plot becomes too episodic, where the narrator's plot-convenient amnesia becomes too much so.
Blessed, for we do not bear the weight of pretending pure. I will say that is has taken some time for me to get that. Had to lose some folk and truly understand what that loss mean. But having been down, and having seen my share of …
Not sure what to make of this. Maybe it's the Swedish translation, maybe it's the bit where RL forced me to take a long break in the middle of the book, maybe it's just me, but I couldn't quite get into this. Which is a real shame because when it's good, it's really good; a story that starts out like one man's story and expands to take on a whole national myth. There are just a few too many bits where the narration feels more Coates than Walker, where the plot becomes too episodic, where the narrator's plot-convenient amnesia becomes too much so.
Blessed, for we do not bear the weight of pretending pure. I will say that is has taken some time for me to get that. Had to lose some folk and truly understand what that loss mean. But having been down, and having seen my share of those who are up, I tell you, Robert Ross, I would live down here among my losses, among the muck and mess of it, before I would ever live among those who are in their own kind of muck, but are so blinded by it they fancy it pure. Ain't no pure, Robert. Ain't no clean.