Den började som ett sarkastiskt svar till USAs 45:e president, men den här fotoboken med sina bilder av allt från körrepetitioner och IT-projektmöten till Afghanistanutvisningar och epatraktorer berättar en rätt tänkvärd historia om hur vi alla relaterar till varandra. ”Ett samhälle bygger på miljontals individuella mikrobeslut; nationen är den dagliga folkomröstning där vi väljer vilken sorts människor vi vill vara.” Se där ett julevangelium så gott som något.
In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious …
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Now this was just... fun. Action-packed, inventive, funny and sad in equal measure, sarcastic and foul-mouthed as fuck, and with just enough historical worldbuilding (it's essentially Magical Venice, after all) to give it depth without getting lost in Stories Of Ye Olden Dayes.
Now this was just... fun. Action-packed, inventive, funny and sad in equal measure, sarcastic and foul-mouthed as fuck, and with just enough historical worldbuilding (it's essentially Magical Venice, after all) to give it depth without getting lost in Stories Of Ye Olden Dayes.
"A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named …
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Rescue distance: The distance at which the parent of a small child knows they can always drop everything and sprint to rescue their child from whatever may happen to them. Grows shorter around swimming pools, kitchens, strangers.
Except it's not always that easy to know where the dangers are. Fever Dream takes a familiar horror concept - no, I won't say which one - and turns it around, casting the whole thing as a feverish post-game analysis where we're not sure what has happened and what may still be done about it, one long dialogue between two people who may or may not be culpable, may or may not be victims, may or may not even be at all. Engrossing, chilling, and tragically vivid.
Rescue distance: The distance at which the parent of a small child knows they can always drop everything and sprint to rescue their child from whatever may happen to them. Grows shorter around swimming pools, kitchens, strangers.
Except it's not always that easy to know where the dangers are. Fever Dream takes a familiar horror concept - no, I won't say which one - and turns it around, casting the whole thing as a feverish post-game analysis where we're not sure what has happened and what may still be done about it, one long dialogue between two people who may or may not be culpable, may or may not be victims, may or may not even be at all. Engrossing, chilling, and tragically vivid.
Börjar som en satir över livet på Ordfront, mynnar ut i en satir över vänsterns riktningslöshet under 2000-talet som gav oss nya moderater och nygamla fascister, och slutar i en förbannad spya över ett debattsamhälle som sätter Kontrovers och Röra Om I Grytan framför allt annat. Klenell gör sina poäng väl och är rolig, men samtidigt aspirerar berättelsen aldrig högre än att vara just... ja, en satir över livet på Ordfront, en satir över vänsterns riktningslöshet under 2000-talet som gav oss nya moderater och nygamla fascister, och en förbannad spya över ett debattsamhälle som sätter Kontrovers och Röra Om I Grytan framför allt annat.
The Zigzag Way is a 2004 novel by Anita Desai. The novel is about an …
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3.5/5.
A slightly feverish story of 20th century colonialism that goes both ways, of Cornish miners emigrating to Mexico and fleeing the revolution, and of their children returning as rich tourists two generations later in search of Themselves. Peyote used more as an established metaphor than an actual drug. I really like Desai's writing, but the novel feels underdeveloped for all the different viewpoint characters she introduces.
3.5/5.
A slightly feverish story of 20th century colonialism that goes both ways, of Cornish miners emigrating to Mexico and fleeing the revolution, and of their children returning as rich tourists two generations later in search of Themselves. Peyote used more as an established metaphor than an actual drug. I really like Desai's writing, but the novel feels underdeveloped for all the different viewpoint characters she introduces.
"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the …
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Tempted to give it a 5, we'll see how it holds up when I've thought about it a bit more. But easily Smith's best since White Teeth, perhaps even better.
A novel about and of dance; big structures and everyday moments captured mid-movement, in positions that could never be held statically without falling over, but constantly propelled by their own movement and a polyrhythm stretched across three continents. A hell of a novel.
Tempted to give it a 5, we'll see how it holds up when I've thought about it a bit more. But easily Smith's best since White Teeth, perhaps even better.
A novel about and of dance; big structures and everyday moments captured mid-movement, in positions that could never be held statically without falling over, but constantly propelled by their own movement and a polyrhythm stretched across three continents. A hell of a novel.
"Wij kunne nw hwarken seya Ney eller Ja, med mindre sådana eedher skole whara der med." - Olaus Petri, 1539
Känns mer som en smått kverulerande, om än ofta väldigt rolig, kåserisamling om sådant som "alla vet" om språk, som inte hade tagit skada av att tackla färre myter lite mer ingående. Men bra att sätta i handen på folk som hävdar att det var bättre förr.
"Wij kunne nw hwarken seya Ney eller Ja, med mindre sådana eedher skole whara der med." - Olaus Petri, 1539
Känns mer som en smått kverulerande, om än ofta väldigt rolig, kåserisamling om sådant som "alla vet" om språk, som inte hade tagit skada av att tackla färre myter lite mer ingående. Men bra att sätta i handen på folk som hävdar att det var bättre förr.
"The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most …
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2.5, really. More thoughts to come. It's a big topic and the way he flits from one angle to the next is fascinating, but at the same time...
"Your women characters are awful. None of them have anything to say for themselves, and most of them either get shot or stabbed to death within five minutes... and the ones that don't probably will later on." "Well... it's a hard world for women. You know? I guess that's what I'm trying to say." "Yeah, it's a hard world for women, but most of the ones I know can string a sentence together!" - Seven Psychopaths
2.5, really. More thoughts to come. It's a big topic and the way he flits from one angle to the next is fascinating, but at the same time...
"Your women characters are awful. None of them have anything to say for themselves, and most of them either get shot or stabbed to death within five minutes... and the ones that don't probably will later on." "Well... it's a hard world for women. You know? I guess that's what I'm trying to say." "Yeah, it's a hard world for women, but most of the ones I know can string a sentence together!" - Seven Psychopaths
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, [Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut]) is a …
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It bugs me how much I end up disliking this book. Initially it's brilliant, taking the history of humanity and flipping it to present Homo Sapiens Sapiens as, if not nothing but, then certainly to a large extent a carrier of memes, myths, genes, and even other species. The idea that we didn't consciously decide to settle down and eat grass for all time but that wheat essentially hijacked us to spread across the globe is an intriguing one, and he takes a long-term view of human history that certainly casts ideas about free will etc into a much dimmer light. It feels a lot like a companion piece to Lasse Berg's Dawn Over The Kalahari and its sequels, which I loved.
But then... he just gets lost. The trouble with a view like this is that he takes it as licence (there's human nature for ya) to apply it …
It bugs me how much I end up disliking this book. Initially it's brilliant, taking the history of humanity and flipping it to present Homo Sapiens Sapiens as, if not nothing but, then certainly to a large extent a carrier of memes, myths, genes, and even other species. The idea that we didn't consciously decide to settle down and eat grass for all time but that wheat essentially hijacked us to spread across the globe is an intriguing one, and he takes a long-term view of human history that certainly casts ideas about free will etc into a much dimmer light. It feels a lot like a companion piece to Lasse Berg's Dawn Over The Kalahari and its sequels, which I loved.
But then... he just gets lost. The trouble with a view like this is that he takes it as licence (there's human nature for ya) to apply it to everything, and the latter two thirds of the book basically feel like you're sitting in the back seat of a very talkative cab driver who's Figured It All Out and needs to tell you about it. Blah blah hunter-gatherers, blah blah capitalism, blah blah human rights is a sham, blah blah blah. He makes some interesting points, and I kinda like the irony that a book that starts out trying to say something about Homo Sapiens as a whole ends up saying at least as much about Yuval Harari in particular, but damn this book became a chore quickly.
