Johnny

Possibly the best scenario-based work I have ever read.

It is a page-turner of cold war thriller quality. Yet you can inhale it in an afternoon - I was unable to put it down at least. The scenario is well developed, despite the compression and action focus. The analysis and argument is compelling.
If you read newspapers, own a social media account or vote in elections, you should read it.

Aimed at young men trying to find their legs, and situated largely in a US cultural context, I am not the target audience. Author does a god job for the audio book.

The five stars are really six stars; alternatively I should go back and rescore a lot of my past reading to make room. The empathy and sensibility in this perspective-flip of Lovecraft's canon lends a strong emotional grip to an already captivating plot.
I cant wait to read more from Emrys!

Thoroughly situated in American culture, probably of limited use to you if you're Scandinavian for example.

Super clear and to the point; impressive amount of knowledge conveyed in a very brief book.

Only criticisms from my point:
- it is ultimately Eurocentric in perspective; I'd have liked to have heard a bit more about other continents and places; Polynesia for example.

- it seems to want to stake a position in a current debate, but isn't taking the time to develop that position and it is largely unsubstantiated; why do the nations of the world need to come together to manage migration? Is that even possible? When has it worked?

We aren't told, and from a historian I would have liked that perspective.

5-star treatment of the topic, in a 3-star overly long format. I was often thinking while reading it that a point was made for - without exaggeration - the 20th time.

Still, I would recommend the book to anyone thinking that our perception of value is ..off. And perhaps more so to anyone thinking that it isn't.

Weekendavisens anmelder siger det meget godt: “I grænselandet mellem indsigt og ævl”.

Når det er sagt, så har denne bog startet en del gode samtaler ved middagsbordet, så det er ikke spildt læsetid.

En god dynamik mellem en progressiv Rane Willerslev og en mere konservativ Svend Brinkmann - med Tor Nørretranders som syntese. Det fungerer egentlig meget godt og giver plads til uenighed i samtalen. Ellers havde det været en frygtelig bog.

Højdepunktet er nok da Rane Willerslev fortæller om at være på feltarbejde i Sibirien under Sovjetunionens kollaps - som et eksempel på hvad der sker ved verdens undergang. Forsyningerne, lønnen, autoriteterne stopper - og hvad sker der så? Det ville jeg gerne høre mere om.

De er ellers hele tiden lige på kanten til at være for fjernt fra verden og for højtflyvende/abstrakte.