Til tross for at både forsiden og tittelen indikerer at dette er crap i poketformat, er det ikke det. Det har blitt mye Palahniuk i det siste, noe en som kan jobben sin (mersalg!) på ARK i stor grad kan takkes for. Boken består av en rekke short-stories knyttet sammen med en overliggende historie. Kvaliteten på førstnevnte gruser sistnevte forøvrig, men det er alt god lesning. Forfatteren selv argumenterer i prologen med at svært få bryr seg med bøker. Bøker bør egentlig ikke defineres som massemedium. Ingen har tatt seg bryet med å forby en bok på flere tiår, skriver han. Og det kan syntes som man kommer unna med langt mer i bøker enn øvrige massemedier som musikk og film. Du kan ikke synge fuck i beste sendetid, MEN du kan publisere boken som har fått 73 personer til å besvime under høytlesning av den første short-storien guts. Jeg er egentlig fornøyd med den ordningen. Det har ikke noe for seg å dra det vidre. Betraktningene er så overfladiske at det ikke belyser debatten likevel.
Boken har gjort meg kvalm, fått meg til å le og av og til legge den vekk i avsky. Anbefaler den likevel. Jeg mener, dersom du har lyst til å føle noe annet enn du følte før du plukket opp en bok kan du likegjerne føle det skikkelig. Nok utenomprat.
Tittel:
Haunted - A novel of stories (2005)
I et nøtteskall:
Historier du ikke glemmer i ettertid.
Favorittutdrag/ -quotes:
"People in france have a phrase; "Spirit of the stairway" in french: Espirit d`Escalier. It means the moment that you find the answer but it is too late. Say you`re at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party... As soon as you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should have said" (ikke egentlig noe å tenke over, men OK å lære nye utrykk)
"When everyone can afford the best, the truth is, it does look a little - common."
"War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment"
"The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people"
"Abused kids abuse what they can"
"..they ain`t bad people, just typical of what we`re trying to rise above"
"I used to see photographs of those people behind barbed wire in death camps" she says. "those living skeletons. And I always thought: Those people could wear anything"
"In a world where the overall standard of living is at a peak...in a culture where each person is held responsible for their life - here, animals are fast becoming the last real victims. The only slaves and prey. Animals are how we define humans. Without animals there would be no humanity. In a world of people, people will mean nothing"
"We need some way to exhaust our fight-or-flight reflexes. Those skills we learned over the past thousand generations. If we ignore our need to hurt and get hurt, if we deny that need and let it pile up, that`s when we get wars. Serial killers. School shootings. You`re saying we have wars, Saint Gut-free says, because we have a low threshold for boredom? And the missing link says; we have wars because we deny that low threshold."
Tanker i ettertid:
Bortkastet var det ikke, men jeg er glad det er over.
Karakter: B
Boken har gjort meg kvalm, fått meg til å le og av og til legge den vekk i avsky. Anbefaler den likevel. Jeg mener, dersom du har lyst til å føle noe annet enn du følte før du plukket opp en bok kan du likegjerne føle det skikkelig. Nok utenomprat.
Tittel:
Haunted - A novel of stories (2005)
I et nøtteskall:
Historier du ikke glemmer i ettertid.
Favorittutdrag/ -quotes:
"People in france have a phrase; "Spirit of the stairway" in french: Espirit d`Escalier. It means the moment that you find the answer but it is too late. Say you`re at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party... As soon as you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should have said" (ikke egentlig noe å tenke over, men OK å lære nye utrykk)
"When everyone can afford the best, the truth is, it does look a little - common."
"War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment"
"The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people"
"Abused kids abuse what they can"
"..they ain`t bad people, just typical of what we`re trying to rise above"
"I used to see photographs of those people behind barbed wire in death camps" she says. "those living skeletons. And I always thought: Those people could wear anything"
"In a world where the overall standard of living is at a peak...in a culture where each person is held responsible for their life - here, animals are fast becoming the last real victims. The only slaves and prey. Animals are how we define humans. Without animals there would be no humanity. In a world of people, people will mean nothing"
"We need some way to exhaust our fight-or-flight reflexes. Those skills we learned over the past thousand generations. If we ignore our need to hurt and get hurt, if we deny that need and let it pile up, that`s when we get wars. Serial killers. School shootings. You`re saying we have wars, Saint Gut-free says, because we have a low threshold for boredom? And the missing link says; we have wars because we deny that low threshold."
Tanker i ettertid:
Bortkastet var det ikke, men jeg er glad det er over.
Karakter: B
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