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Forlag Back Bay Books
Utgivelsesår 2006
Format Paperback
ISBN13 9780316066525
Språk Engelsk
Sider 1104
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En fenomenal bok om avhengighet, depresjon og fremmedfølelse. En tilsynelatende overintellektuell bok, som tvert imot er morsom, medrivende og sylskarp. Ja, enkelte kapitler burde vært redigert ned, og boken kan tiltider føles utmattende. Men da jeg hadde lest dens 1079 sider tok det ikke lang tid før jeg savnet samværet.
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
“The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in who Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from buring windows. The terror of falling from a great height is still as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and "Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling”
“That everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
...morning is the soul's night.
Det går openbart ikkje an å seie at ei bok er skuld i sjølvmord likevel finn ein bøker hos forfattarar som tilsynelatande er så gjennomsyra med dysterhait og melankoli at ein må kunne spyrje om det er noko samanheng med litteraturen og forfatterens død. Vil her berre legge ut nokon bøker av fofatterar som har begått sjølvmord, ellers legg eg meg ikkje så langt inn i relevansen for kopling mellom litteraturen og sjølvmordet..
Rangering fra 1 til 100. 138 anonyme medlemmer stemte på bøkene. Samlet 3. april 2014.
Drukkenskap i litteraturen. Bøker der romanfiguren drikker, alkoholrus skildres eller alkoholbruk på en eller annen måte er tema.
Listen er inspirert av Fredrik Wandrups artikkel "Romanskikkelser som raver rundt i litteraturen", og starter med bøkene (eller forfatterne) han lister opp,
men jeg fyller på med alt som passer inn. Vet du om noe?
Bøker av forfattere som begikk selvmord. De av bøkene jeg har lest, med unntak av Levés Suicide, har jeg likt veldig godt.
bøkene lest i 2013. målet var 50.
to tusen og tretten er det året da de postmoderne klassikerne og der nye forfattere vekket min oppmerksomhet.
Prøver meg på Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge. Selv om det er noen punkter jeg kommer til å ha vanskeligheter med å finne bøker i. Legger inn bøker etterhvert som jeg finner dem:)
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