#fredagsbog — Public Fediverse posts

Staten og revolutionen var nem og hurtig at komme igennem, og vi er ude i endnu et hæsblæsende skarpt genreskift: Som #Fredagsbog er jeg nu gået i gang med Ken Macleod's Beyond The Light Horizon, den sidste bog i hans Lightspeed trilogi.

Macleod betyder spekulativ science fiction med teknooptimsme og et stærkt strøg af politisk thriller. Og en stærk forankring i Skotlands natur og kultur, uanset hvor langt ud i rummet og fremtiden man kommer.

Hanne-Vibeke Holst: Kongemordet #fredagsbog fra byttereolen. Den her bog er dårlig for mig at læse, fuld af onde ting (politik, politikere samt hustruvold). Men den en spændende eller snarere fængende. Jeg har ikke brug for at læse mere af den slags pt, men kan man lide genren er den udemærket skrevet. Og jeg prøver at huske tilbage og regne ud, hvilke personer den er baseret på...

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

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I was about to say 'this book could have been a blog post', but perhaps it's fairer to say 'this book was not for me'. It came so recommended that I tried switching between the original Danish and the English translation. This only confirmed that it's doubly not for me. On the plus side, the publishers name the translators on the cover. That shouldn't be so rare that you notice it, but alas it is.

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I idly picked this up yesterday, thinking I’d read a few pages. Before I knew it, I was late for everything and had read half of it. Engrossingly slow-paced and peculiar. And just to make it even better, the translator is credited on the cover. This shouldn’t be so unusual that you notice it. It is lovely to see.

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