Pål Hernes Fiva

Bought it on a whim. Contains some interesting ideas and observations, but they drown in the tsunami of logical fallacies, junk science and overall mumbo jumbo.

Bored. Gave up.

Uneven

Entertaining story, with some emotional depth and some belaboured writing.

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.

«...only like an unreasoning wheel, which also hummingly soliloquizes; or rather, his body was a sentry-box and this soliloquizer on guard there, and talking all the time to keep himself awake.»

Too long. Too predictable. The few bright ideas are mercilessly elaborated, crushing this reader's enthusiasm and revealing that the author has nothing to say. Boo!

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.

Middle part is good, but Roth exhausts the subject and then the reader.

Made me cry.

I wanted something easy and entertaining and this delivered. A tad too predictable. YA.