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Books
I like books! But I do like books more than my time permits.
I have always (i.e. ever since I heard about it) wanted to
participate in the 52 books in 52 weeks
challenge - but I have come to accept that I do not have the
capacity to meet that challenge. But hats off to those who do.
I have tracked my reading habits since 2006 and I have noticed a few things so far. First off, I read about 10 books per year, give or take. Next, I read mostly during the spring, and generally only a few books during the summer and autumn. And I read books in English, with the only exceptions that I read books by swedish authors in swedish, and on occasion a book in german. What is a good book to me? My critera is simple - the book must be interesting. For example, a biography of an important historical figure is interesting; a book written by a renowned author is interesting; a book that conveys an interesting thought; a book that express a radical or new opinion is very interesting. Crap literature with no value except mental masturbation is not worth while, a waste of time, and I try to stay away from it whenever possible. A brief history of anxiety
Tropic of cancer
After having read Shoot the damn dog with great interest, I
picked up another book from the same category at the bookstore. An
unquiet mind is the memoir of manic-depressive Dr. Kay Jamison, who i...
It has been a while since I last read science fiction and it
was overdue. What better way to continue than to pick a classic by
Clarke, one of the most well known science and science fiction autho...
There were two things that struck me from the start. The
first being that the characters are very one dimensional and simple, and
the second that so is the story.
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Oscar Wilde would no doubt have fit right in today. Witty,
successful - a great celebrity of his time. If he had been alive today he
would have been a star, I am sure of that. But towards the end ...
"I know nothing compared to it except Lord of the Rings",
Arthur C. Clarke has noted on the back cover. We all know who Mr Clarke
is, famous author of the brilliant "2001", a novel that is the sis...
I have the habit of reading the New York Times on my mobile
almost daily, and that is where I first heard about Shoot the damn dog.
I believe it was in an article about the most interesting books...
I first read Neuromancer in my youth. It was good, but it
did not leave a lasting impression. I continued reading parts of The
Wheel of Time (which has been completed now I believe). Then came The...
It is one of the classic science-fiction books around and, I
would take a guess that it is aimed at a fairly young audience. But it
has exactly that what is so typical with one of the classics - t...
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