onsdag 6. juli 2011

E.Donoghue - Room


Forfatter: Emma Donoghue


Tittel: Room (2010)


I et nøtteskall: Fritzel-kjelleren er trygghet og verden er usikker, den mest to-somme historien siden Albert Åberg.


Favoritt-utdrag:

“Before I didn’t even know to be mad that we can’t open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it. When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I’m five I know everything”


“Also everywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly don’t seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don’t want to actually play with them, they’d rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there’s a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn’t even hear”


“Lots of the world seems to be a repeat.”


Tanker i ettertid: Om du setter pris på godt språk og intelligente tankerekker blir du jo litt skuffet over at fortelleren er 5 år og aldri har vært utenfor hageskuret han ble født i, men interessant er det likevel – og ingen kunne fortalt historien bedre.


Karakter: B

tirsdag 5. juli 2011

B. Hale - The evolution of Bruno Littlemore

Etter flere dager under Gresk sol, med bøker om Keynes, Hayek og hvorfor politikere sier "this time it's different" hver gang en økonomisk krise løses med bailouts eller defaults - var jeg klar for skjønnlitteratur. Valget var ganske random, var innom NY times liste over beste bøker i 2011 og valgte to som ikke var krim. Planen var å lese disse på seilbåtferie i Kroatia. Vel, The evolution of Bruno Littlemore var ferdiglest før flyet ned var ferdig boardet.


Tittel: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (2011)

Forfatter: Benjamin Hale

I et nøtteskall: Hvor tynt er skillet mellom å være et menneske og det å være menneskelig?

Favoritt-utdrag:
"If you ever have children, tell them they must always be drunk. Drunk on love, drunk on poetry, drunk on wine, it doesn't matter. This world is too goddamn painful to waste a second of your existence sober."

"Religion says this world is not good enough for us—that there is more, or that there should be. What is religion but the philosophical hatred of the world?"

"We make meanings because meaninglessness terrifies us above all things. More than snakes, even. More than falling, or the dark. We trick ourselves into seeing meanings in things, when in fact all we are doing is grafting our meanings onto the universe to comfort ourselves. We gild the chaos of the universe with our symbols. To admit that something is meaningless is just like falling backward into darkness."

Tanker i ettertid:
ensom i din egen familie, delvis fordi du har glemt språket deres, og delvis - ikke fordi du ikke har noe å si-, men fordi du vet de ikke fatter. Evolusjon har en kostnad.

Anbefales:
Agnostikere liker den nok best, men religiøse bør lese den.

Karakter: A
 
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