The second novel by Karl Ove Knausgård is a sprawling, baroque text that revels in the art of storytelling. If only the author had taken heed of the novel’s title, this novel would have been superb. Continue reading
Alle som arbeider med nettutvikling har blitt møtt med sterke meninger om hva som er brukervennlig og hva som ikke er det. Det gjelder ofte brukere som forveksler egne preferanser med generell brukeratferd (vi kan alle falle i den fella at vi tror våre egne meninger er allmenne), men som eksperter på brukervennlighet er det vårt ansvar å møte dem med ydmykhet og tenke over om de faktisk har et poeng.
This is not me.
I just got to the part in My Struggle 2 (Min kamp 2) by Karl Ove Knausgård where he googles himself and thought it was time for me to do the same.
It’s just one of those things people in our generation do from time to time, especially if they have spent a significant portion of their professional and personal life online, as I have. Continue reading
Robot Soldier on the museum roof.
I spend a Sunday afternoon at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo and end up having the best museum experience thus far in my life.
Akihabara (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The name Akihabara Electric Town has a legendary air to it among computer and gadget nerds, video gamers and manga fans. While it is an interesting experience to walk its busy streets and many, many stores, I came away from it somewhat underwhelmed. Continue reading
If your impression of Tokyo is the hyper modern Bladerunneresque one with neon signs everywhere and chaotic crowds of well dressed and/or weird young people, Saturday night in Shibuya does not disappoint.
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, right? If there is one area where making things easier is appreciated, it is travel. This is how I used technology to prepare for my long weekend in Tokyo.
Before I even bought Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending, I heard anecdotes of people finishing it on the train home, yet sitting down on a railway station bench to immediately re-read it. Similar ones were common – people were talking just as much about their reading experience as the book itself. For such a short book, my reading of it was also quite unusual (and, yes, I also read it twice).
This, then, is not a review (you can read my review here). It is an article about my experience of reading this book and also of dreaming, thinking, talking, and writing about this book.
Believe the hype – Booker Prize winner The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes came recommended as precisely what it is; a very British novel that will stay with you long after you finish it. Twice. This remarkable book is a funny, poetic, philosophical mystery about time and memory.
Ikke før hadde jeg sagt til meg sjøl at nå må jeg faenmeg lese litt igjen og begynt på nok en runde med John McCarmacks The Road så tvitret min gamle venn og forfatter Ellisiv Lindkvist om en bloggpost om sin lesedvale – og satte ord på min tilstand.