Pål Hernes Fiva

“It is sort of an atrocity contest.”

Despite some major flaws (one of the villains is immersion-breakingly one-dimensional), it is so much fun!

Noe av styrken til boken ble et problem for meg; grundigheten i beskrivelsen av diverse forkvaklede teorier gjorde slitsomt å lese. Samtidig viser bredden og grundigheten hvor seiglivet dårlige ideer kan være. Boken var for meg mest interessant når den kobler sammen ulike emner (historie, filosofi, økonomi) og viser hvordan disse påvirket ideene om raser.

Seneca: “Far too many good brains have been afflicted by the pointless enthusiasm for useless knowledge.”

Lettlest, konkret og engasjerende bok som jeg håper/tror kan fungere for mange. Har ikke angst selv, men også for meg var det interessant å lese om opplevelse og behandling.

It kept me interested for about two thirds, but the final third was a slog as the story became increasingly predictable. For a story about occult knowledge and the power of intuition is especially disappointing that the author feels the need to spell things out. Disappointed.

Abandoned after 200 pages. Loads of conspiracies sounds fun, but when the narrator/protagonist is so vile the stakes become curiously low, and the sheer amount of conspiracies end up being a slog. If I wanted to read misanthropic conspiracies without any sort of human understanding, I could just browse the worst parts of the internet.