Internet at home isn’t working, we’re suspecting it has something to do with all the snow… blaming the snow for everything going wrong these days! Right now I’m at the school library waiting for a very late Linda (probably the snow is to blame for that aswell..)
I’ve been reading! Week 6, 7 & 8.
11. Bat Seba – Torgny Lindgren
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Not my favourite Torgny Lindgren book, probably my least favourite. Though I do really like to read about romans so I still liked it. And even a least favourite book by his is better than most other books you know…
12. Thinking about development – Björn Hettne
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This is a school book. It was interesting and structured my head up a bit more on what to think about how the world is shaped as of now. Not much more to say, not well read enough in the subject of development to critique it anyway.
13. Wto bakom fasaden – Susan George
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A short pamphlet about the WTO, what it does, what Attac wanted in 2001 etc… some really good facts and some that I guess are pretty dated now almost 10 years later. I thought it was fitting with the development studies so I read it in like an hour and felt a bit more sane afterwards.
14. Vägen (The Road, that is) – Cormac McCarthy
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I really did not like this book much at all, and I expected I would. Mainly I just can’t stand short sentences for some kind of dramatic effect. Reminds me too much of a pile of annoying swedish bloggers… Sentence not common in my head: the movie was better than the book. (A bit of my liking of it was of course related to the fact that Nick Cave & Warren Ellis made the music for the film… which lead me to my next thought of disappointment which was Nick liked the book??) I still very much like the subject & story but the language was just too much (or too little) for me to enjoy it.
(I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it but I am taking Global Development studies for half this school year before going back to Human Ecology, because I’ve already taken the classes the rest of the human ecology class is reading right now)
I ususally dont like books with short sentences either. But I think it worked very well in the Cormac Mc Carthy book. The language gave me a feeling of emptiness and stillness
I disliked “The Road” for the same reason. I thought that the story was interesting, but the writing was very poor. Being a writer is difficult because you must *work* to create complete sentences from the imagery you want to share, but McCarthy’s writing feels so lazy and amateur because he doesn’t even try.