"They’ll go out to a restaurant, and he’ll eat whatever he likes, and he’ll know that tomorrow he can do it all again. They’ll walk through the streets, looking through the windows of shops. There will be trees, their leaves green, and the buildings will be bright and without scars. No one will be on the hills with guns pointed at them, and after a while he won’t even think of this as a benefit, it will simply be an obvious thing, because that’s how life is supposed to be. They will be happy. They won’t hate anyone, and no one will hate them." Kenan dreaming during the siege. A really good read.
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The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2) by Bernard Cornwell (Saxon Chronicles (2))
Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance and adrift in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. He has …
Review of 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
"They’ll go out to a restaurant, and he’ll eat whatever he likes, and he’ll know that tomorrow he can do it all again. They’ll walk through the streets, looking through the windows of shops. There will be trees, their leaves green, and the buildings will be bright and without scars. No one will be on the hills with guns pointed at them, and after a while he won’t even think of this as a benefit, it will simply be an obvious thing, because that’s how life is supposed to be. They will be happy. They won’t hate anyone, and no one will hate them." Kenan dreaming during the siege. A really good read.
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The fourth world of the Hopis: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Thinking, Fast and Slow: 5 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Long Earth: 4 stars
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (The Long Earth, #1)
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong …
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? …
Review of 'In Defense of Lost Causes' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Profound. And messy. I'm confused. I'd like to give some parts of it 5 stars...
Profound. And messy. I'm confused. I'd like to give some parts of it 5 stars...
Eivind (like the Terrible) reviewed Nothing to envy by Barbara Demick
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a 2009 nonfiction book by Los …
Review of 'Nothing to envy' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A very interesting, and very grim, collection of stories from life (and death) in North Korea.
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Last Kindom: 4 stars
Bernard Cornwell: The Last Kindom (Paperback, 2005, Harper Collins Publ. UK)
The Last Kindom by Bernard Cornwell (Saxon Chronicles (1))
From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling author whom the Washington Post calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical …
Review of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
What a great story!
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Norvegr: 4 stars
From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism comes a definitive history that examines the …
Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Communism' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A very educational history of (capital c) Communism. Eye opening.
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Handmaid's Tale: 4 stars
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a …
In questi dodici interventi (originariamente pubblicati sulla rivista radicale In These Times, poi snobbati dalla …
Review of 'A man without a country' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
"So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and a Chicago paper called "In These Times.""
"So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and a Chicago paper called "In These Times.""
Eivind (like the Terrible) reviewed Norvegr by Hans Jacob Orning
Review of 'Norvegr' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Og så var firehundreårs-natten over.