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Staten er rik, men oljefondet brukes på en måte som gir en rekke følgefeil: Offentlige utgifter eser ut. Både norsk og utenlandsk kapital flyttes ut av landet. Nordmenn tror staten sparer for dem, og har skyhøy gjeld med stor risiko. Uten rakettmotoren økonomien trenger blir resultatet i stedet seiglivet nedtur.
Det finnes en vei tilbake til sunn velstandsvekst. Men finnes det lederskap til å finne den i tide? Landet som ble for rikt er økonomen Martin Bech Holtes varsku til norske politikere og velgere.]]> Martin Bech Holte 8248938255 Erik 4
Visst har forskermiljøer, spesielt hos SSB, kommet med betimelig kritikk av metode- og datavalg. Og ja, begrepsbruken, med Drillo-lag, «end of history» og Amazon-sjargong (Dag 1/Dag 2) er til tider banalt forenklende.

Men er det nyttig å fremstille norsk økonomi på denne måten?

For å selge bøker: helt klart. For å skape etterlengtet interesse for hvordan vi har økt offentlig pengebruk og svekket konkurranseevne på samme tid? Høyst sannsynlig.

Offentlig pengebruk til side finnes det én måling av konkurranseevnen vår som selv SSB-forskere vil slite med å argumentere mot: langsiktig valutakursfall.

Norske kroner har nemlig, jevnt og trutt, tapt seg i verdi mot alle våre viktigste handelspartneres valutaer siden 2013 � året for «end of history» i denne fortellingen.

Ser man på et land som en butikk, er valutakursen på lang sikt et mål på hvor attraktive varene til landet er, sammenlignet med andre lands varer:

For å kjøpe varer fra et land trenger man byttemidlene (valutaen) deres. Derfor vil et mer attraktivt vareutvalg, alt annet likt, gi en mer attraktiv og dermed høyere priset (les: sterkere) valuta.

Butikken Norges viktigste enkeltvare har i lang tid vært fossile investeringer i norsk sokkel. Sokkelinvesteringer har siden rundt 2013 hatt en rekke år med flat utvikling,

Geopolitisk usikkerhet har bidratt til å gjøre norsk sokkel mer attraktiv å investere i de siste 2-3 årene, men det forventes nedgang i investeringsnivå i årene som kommer.

Så, hva kan vi lese av det langvarige valutakursfallet fra 2013-ish til i dag?

At vi sliter med å finne andre ting å selge enn sokkelinvesteringer. I samme periode har handelspartnerne våre gradvis skapt et vareutvalg kundene liker bedre enn vårt.

For å banke det inn: varene i butikken vår har, relativt til handelspartnerne våre, blitt mindre etterspurte. Derfor har krona, relativt til handelspartnerne våre, blitt mindre etterspurt, og svekket seg i verdi.

Hvor skal jeg med denne utgreiingen?

Tilbake til bokas premiss, som står støtt gjennom Maddison-datakluss, sparetall-bommerter og folkelig narrativisme:

Vi må gjøre noe.]]> 4.18 2025 Landet som ble for rikt
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Som økonom med iboende opprørstrang liker jeg premisset her: Vi må gjøre noe.

Visst har forskermiljøer, spesielt hos SSB, kommet med betimelig kritikk av metode- og datavalg. Og ja, begrepsbruken, med Drillo-lag, «end of history» og Amazon-sjargong (Dag 1/Dag 2) er til tider banalt forenklende.

Men er det nyttig å fremstille norsk økonomi på denne måten?

For å selge bøker: helt klart. For å skape etterlengtet interesse for hvordan vi har økt offentlig pengebruk og svekket konkurranseevne på samme tid? Høyst sannsynlig.

Offentlig pengebruk til side finnes det én måling av konkurranseevnen vår som selv SSB-forskere vil slite med å argumentere mot: langsiktig valutakursfall.

Norske kroner har nemlig, jevnt og trutt, tapt seg i verdi mot alle våre viktigste handelspartneres valutaer siden 2013 � året for «end of history» i denne fortellingen.

Ser man på et land som en butikk, er valutakursen på lang sikt et mål på hvor attraktive varene til landet er, sammenlignet med andre lands varer:

For å kjøpe varer fra et land trenger man byttemidlene (valutaen) deres. Derfor vil et mer attraktivt vareutvalg, alt annet likt, gi en mer attraktiv og dermed høyere priset (les: sterkere) valuta.

Butikken Norges viktigste enkeltvare har i lang tid vært fossile investeringer i norsk sokkel. Sokkelinvesteringer har siden rundt 2013 hatt en rekke år med flat utvikling,

Geopolitisk usikkerhet har bidratt til å gjøre norsk sokkel mer attraktiv å investere i de siste 2-3 årene, men det forventes nedgang i investeringsnivå i årene som kommer.

Så, hva kan vi lese av det langvarige valutakursfallet fra 2013-ish til i dag?

At vi sliter med å finne andre ting å selge enn sokkelinvesteringer. I samme periode har handelspartnerne våre gradvis skapt et vareutvalg kundene liker bedre enn vårt.

For å banke det inn: varene i butikken vår har, relativt til handelspartnerne våre, blitt mindre etterspurte. Derfor har krona, relativt til handelspartnerne våre, blitt mindre etterspurt, og svekket seg i verdi.

Hvor skal jeg med denne utgreiingen?

Tilbake til bokas premiss, som står støtt gjennom Maddison-datakluss, sparetall-bommerter og folkelig narrativisme:

Vi må gjøre noe.
]]> <![CDATA[The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust]]> 13151167
The laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out, have a lot to do with male hormones. In a series of startling experiments, Canadian scientist Dr. John Coates identified a feedback loop between testosterone and success that dramatically lowers the fear of risk in men, especially young men; he has vividly dubbed the moment when traders transform into exuberant high flyers "the hour between dog and wolf." Similarly, intense failure leads to a rise in levels of cortisol, which dramatically lowers the appetite for risk. His book expands on his seminal research to offer lessons from the exploding new field studying the biology of risk.

Coates's conclusions shed light on all types of high-pressure decision-making, from the sports field to the battlefield, and leaves us with a powerful to handle risk isn't a matter of mind over body, it's a matter of mind and body working together. We all have it in us to be transformed from dog to wolf; the only question is whether we can understand the causes and the consequences.]]> 320 John Coates 0307359670 Erik 0 to-read 3.88 2012 The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything]]> 204236707 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk—and the players raising the stakes In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life.These professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21stcentury. By embedding within these worlds, Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all, from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI.The River has increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society, and understanding their mindset—including the flaws in their thinking—is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today. There are certain commonalities in this otherwise diverse high tolerance for risk; appreciation of uncertainty; affinity for numbers; skill at de-coupling; self-reliance and a distrust of the conventional wisdom. For the River, complexity is baked in, and the work is how to navigate it, without going beyond the pale.Taking us behind-the-scenes from casinos to venture capital firms to meetings of the effective altruism movement, On the Edge is a deeply-reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of powerbrokers and risk takers.]]> 576 Nate Silver 1594204128 Erik 0 currently-reading 3.61 2024 On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty]]> 12158480 Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

- China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed andoverwhelm the West?
- Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
- What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More
philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.]]> 529 Daron Acemoğlu 0307719219 Erik 0 to-read 4.06 2012 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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]]> <![CDATA[The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999]]> 87923 752 Misha Glenny 0140233776 Erik 3 to-read
Du har selvsagt helt rett.

Boka er antakelig helt klinkers for dem som vil lese om alle mer eller mindre viktige hendelser på tvers av hele regionen de siste 200 årene, beskrevet i veldig høy oppløsning. Og her høres jeg kanskje spydig ut, men dere hyller jeg, dere sta jævler.

Jeg tilhører ikke nevnte gjeng. Her er det spennende historier, ok+ språk og etter sigende korrekte fremstillinger, men det er for mye å gape over for en historie-casual.]]> 4.10 1999 The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
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average rating: 4.10
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En 700-siders murstein om Balkans historie fra 1804 til 2012. Du skulle kanskje tro denne er mest spennende å lese ø/under oppholdet i Balkan?

Du har selvsagt helt rett.

Boka er antakelig helt klinkers for dem som vil lese om alle mer eller mindre viktige hendelser på tvers av hele regionen de siste 200 årene, beskrevet i veldig høy oppløsning. Og her høres jeg kanskje spydig ut, men dere hyller jeg, dere sta jævler.

Jeg tilhører ikke nevnte gjeng. Her er det spennende historier, ok+ språk og etter sigende korrekte fremstillinger, men det er for mye å gape over for en historie-casual.
]]> Flowers for Algernon 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.

Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence � a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X Erik 4
Vi følger Charlie, en såkalt tilbakestående (forfatteren bruker begrepet) ung mann som går gjennom en eksperimentell behandling. Målet med behandlingen er å gi han intelligens på et normalt nivå, og vi får oppleve Charlies ferd ut av Platons hule.]]> 4.19 1966 Flowers for Algernon
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Vond og fascinerende historie om hvordan vi behandler de svakeste i samfunnet.

Vi følger Charlie, en såkalt tilbakestående (forfatteren bruker begrepet) ung mann som går gjennom en eksperimentell behandling. Målet med behandlingen er å gi han intelligens på et normalt nivå, og vi får oppleve Charlies ferd ut av Platons hule.
]]> <![CDATA[Kärleken (Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar, #1)]]> 15768119 291 Jonas Gardell 9113043927 Erik 0 to-read 4.22 2012 Kärleken (Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar, #1)
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]]> Nature and Madness 1607092 200 Paul Shepard 0820319805 Erik 0 to-read 4.26 1982 Nature and Madness
author: Paul Shepard
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]]> The Death of Ivan Ilych 18386
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]> 86 Leo Tolstoy Erik 5
Store smerter, overfladiske familiemedlemmer, streberske kollegaer og nedlatende leger gjør juristens siste dans ganske jævlig, men også tankevekkende og underholdende.

Boka er drøye 90 sider lang, og det er mer enn nok til å rekke innom interiørfetisjer, selvbevisste begravelsesgjester, kranglevorne sofapuffer, vonde familierelasjoner, en angrende manns siste livsfunderinger � og mer til.

Kunne fint klart minst tre ganger så mye av dette.]]> 4.12 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych
author: Leo Tolstoy
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average rating: 4.12
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Vi følger juristen Ivan Iljitsj� siste dager.

Store smerter, overfladiske familiemedlemmer, streberske kollegaer og nedlatende leger gjør juristens siste dans ganske jævlig, men også tankevekkende og underholdende.

Boka er drøye 90 sider lang, og det er mer enn nok til å rekke innom interiørfetisjer, selvbevisste begravelsesgjester, kranglevorne sofapuffer, vonde familierelasjoner, en angrende manns siste livsfunderinger � og mer til.

Kunne fint klart minst tre ganger så mye av dette.
]]> Morgenstjernen 53416861
Handlingen utspiller seg noen dager sent i august. Litteraturprofessoren Arne og kunstneren Tove er sammen med sine barn på feriestedet på Sørlandet. Deres venn, rikmannssønnen Egil, befinner seg på en hytte i nær-heten. Presten Kathrine er på vei hjem fra et seminar, barnehageassistenten Emil er på øving med bandet sitt, journalisten Jostein er ute på byen, kona hans Turid som er hjelpepleier har nattevakt. Over dem og alle andre dukker det plutselig opp en enorm stjerne på himmelen. Ingen, selv ikke astronomene, vet sikkert hva slags fenomen det er. Er det en stjerne som brenner ut? Hvorfor har da ingen sett den ø? Eller er det en helt ny stjerne? Langsomt legger nyhetens interesse seg, og livet går videre, men ikke helt som ø, for uvanlige fenomener begynner å inntreffe i utkanten av menneskenes tilværelse.

"Morgenstjernen" er en roman om det vi ikke forstår, om det store dramaet sett gjennom det lille livets begrensede linse. Men øst og fremst er det en roman om hva som skjer når de mørke kreftene i verden settes fri.]]> 663 Karl Ove Knausgård 8249521536 Erik 0 to-read 4.17 2020 Morgenstjernen
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]]> Ulvene fra evighetens skog 59536144
«Ulvene fra evighetens skog» åpner i 1986. Det er regjeringskrise i Norge, og en atomreaktor langt borte i Tsjernobyl har eksplodert. Syvert Løyning, en ung mann på tyve år, vender hjem fra militæret til sin mor og bror i huset deres utenfor en større by på Sørlandet. En natt drømmer han om sin døde far. Det er som om faren vil ham noe. Men hva? Han begynner å undersøke det som ligger igjen etter faren. Sporene leder til Sovjetunionen.

Romanens andre del foregår i Russland i vår tid. Vi møter biologen Alevtina som en helg drar til Samara sammen med sin sønn for å feire farens åttiårsdag. Som ung stilte Alevtina de helt store spørsmålene, som hvor livet kommer fra og hva det egentlig er. Disse dagene har hun mer enn nok med sitt eget liv - forholdet til sønnen, og til faren, som hun alltid har vært nært knyttet til. Vi møter også hennes venninne Vasilisa, en poet som skriver en bok om et særegent og gammelt trekk ved den russiske kulturen: troen på evig liv.

«Ulvene fra evighetens skog» er en suggestiv og dypt engasjerende roman som utvider utforskningen av den tiltakende apokalyptiske situasjonen som ble beskrevet i Karl Ove Knausgårds forrige roman, «Morgenstjernen».]]> 776 Karl Ove Knausgård 8249523903 Erik 0 to-read 3.99 2021 Ulvene fra evighetens skog
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]]> <![CDATA[Nattskolen (Morgenstjernen, #4)]]> 197851917
«Nattskolen» begynner i 1985, da en ung mann fra Norge flytter til London for å studere fotografi. Han heter Kristian Hadeland, og han er ambisiøs, ærgjerrig og skånselløs av natur. Vi følger hans øste år i storbyen, gjennom mange nederlag, men også noen viktige møter. Særlig betydningsfull skal den ti år eldre nederlenderen Hans vise seg å bli. Hans er besatt av teknologi, fra fotografiet og grammofonens spede begynnelse til datamaskinenes langsomme overtakelse av virkeligheten. Samtidig treffer Kristian også Vivian, som er teaterregissør og som skal sette opp Doktor Faustus av Christopher Marlowe, en forestilling hun ber Kristian om å ta bilder for. I romanens andre del møter vi Kristian igjen fireogtyve år senere, da han er en framgangsrik kunstner med en større retrospektiv utstilling i New York på trappene. Han har nådd sine mål, men til hvilken pris?

«Nattskolen» er en roman om hvordan kunst skapes, og om hvordan menneskeliv ødelegges. Det er en roman om de kreftene som omgir oss, både de mørke og lyse, og om et menneskes oppgang og fall.]]> 484 Karl Ove Knausgård 8249526961 Erik 0 to-read 4.36 2023 Nattskolen (Morgenstjernen, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Det tredje riket (Morgenstjernen, #3)]]> 63142122
Noe er i bevegelse i verden, det er som om den er hjemsøkt - men av hva, og hvorfor?

«Det tredje riket» er en del av storverket «Morgenstjernen», en romanserie som har fascinert og begeistret lesere og kritikere verden over. Fortellingen settes i gang av en ny stjernes plutselige tilsynekomst på himmelen. Under denne stjernen lever menneskene sine liv som ø mens verden rundt dem langsomt forandrer seg. Det handler om det vi ikke forstår, det store dramaet sett gjennom det lille livets linse, og om hva som skjer når de mørke kreftene i verden settes fri.]]> 482 Karl Ove Knausgård 8249525582 Erik 0 to-read 4.34 2022 Det tredje riket (Morgenstjernen, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Då Ivan Iljitsj døydde (SKALDS klassikarar #15)]]> 213502732 78 Lev Tolstoj 8279593640 Erik 0 to-read 4.14 Då Ivan Iljitsj døydde (SKALDS klassikarar #15)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Trading Game: A Confession]]> 188543465
'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?

Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger.

Then he won a competition run by a 'The Trading Game'. The a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family. Where soon you're the bank's most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars. A day . Where you dream of numbers in your sleep - and then stop sleeping at all.

But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? When the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer and poorer - and, as the economy starts slipping off a precipice, your own sanity starts slipping with it? You want to stop, but you can't. Because nobody ever leaves .

Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?]]> 352 Gary Stevenson 0593727215 Erik 0 to-read 4.20 2024 The Trading Game: A Confession
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]]> Jævla menn 214198085
Andrev Walden romandebuterer med en vill fortelling om å vokse opp i kjølvannet av 68-bevegelsen, om mødre som står under kjøkkenvifta og sier jævla menn, om hvordan kjærlighet begynner og slutter, om en skalpert hamster, men mest av alt om menn. Man rekker å lære mye om denne besynderlige arten når man har sju fedre på sju år.]]> 375 Andrev Walden 8248935663 Erik 0 to-read 4.41 2023 Jævla menn
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]]> <![CDATA[The Balkans, 1804 - 2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers]]> 19463797 800 Misha Glenny 1847087728 Erik 0 currently-reading 4.40 1999 The Balkans, 1804 - 2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
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]]> <![CDATA[Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies]]> 1842
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal]]> 498 Jared Diamond 0739467352 Erik 0 to-read 4.04 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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]]> Følelsen av forskjell 50504225 223 Keith Payne 8282260738 Erik 0 to-read 4.33 2018 Følelsen av forskjell
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]]> <![CDATA[Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment]]> 55339408 From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking exploration of why most people make bad judgments, and how to control for that noise.�

Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients � or that two judges in the same courthouse give different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different food inspectors give different ratings to indistinguishable restaurants � or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to be handling the particular complaint. Now imagine that the same doctor, the same judge, the same inspector, or the same company official makes different decisions, depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical.

In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Olivier Sibony show how noise contributes significantly to errors in all fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, police behavior, food safety, bail, security checks at airports, strategy, and personnel selection. And although noise can be found wherever people make judgments and decisions, individuals and organizations alike are commonly oblivious to the role of chance in their judgments and in their actions.

Drawing on the latest findings in psychology and behavioral economics, and the same kind of diligent, insightful research that made Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment � and what we can do about it.
]]> 454 Daniel Kahneman 0316451401 Erik 5
Nok en gang er formålet å hjelpe leseren til å ta bedre beslutninger. Men der Thinking, Fast and Slow handlet om bias, handler denne om den andre hovedårsaken til suboptimale beslutninger: støy.

La oss bruke en noe forenklet dart-analogi med 3 piler i spill. Biaset er hvor langt unna bullseye de 3 pilene i gjennomsnitt har havnet, mens støyen er hvor langt unna hverandre de 3 pilene ligger, altså spredningen.

Biaset er ofte enklere å måle. Dette krever bare at man måler hver enkelt beslutning opp mot «bullseye», som man gjerne vet hva er/ble. Måling av støy krever flere målinger, gjerne over tid, og mer sofistikert analyse.

Det er allikevel fullt mulig, og Kahneman byr på en rekke sjokkerende funn fra blant annet finans, medisin og jus.
Som i Thinking Fast and Slow får leseren samtidig en smørbrødliste med teknikker for å unngå å gjøre disse tabbene selv.

For deg som fortsatt er med: strålende bok både for den samfunnsinteresserte, den som er fys på å ta bedre valg, eller deg som bare er litt nørd.]]> 3.64 2021 Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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Ahhh, verdens beste (og kanskje eneste interessante) selvhjelpsforfatter Daniel Kahneman � fred over hans minne.

Nok en gang er formålet å hjelpe leseren til å ta bedre beslutninger. Men der Thinking, Fast and Slow handlet om bias, handler denne om den andre hovedårsaken til suboptimale beslutninger: støy.

La oss bruke en noe forenklet dart-analogi med 3 piler i spill. Biaset er hvor langt unna bullseye de 3 pilene i gjennomsnitt har havnet, mens støyen er hvor langt unna hverandre de 3 pilene ligger, altså spredningen.

Biaset er ofte enklere å måle. Dette krever bare at man måler hver enkelt beslutning opp mot «bullseye», som man gjerne vet hva er/ble. Måling av støy krever flere målinger, gjerne over tid, og mer sofistikert analyse.

Det er allikevel fullt mulig, og Kahneman byr på en rekke sjokkerende funn fra blant annet finans, medisin og jus.
Som i Thinking Fast and Slow får leseren samtidig en smørbrødliste med teknikker for å unngå å gjøre disse tabbene selv.

For deg som fortsatt er med: strålende bok både for den samfunnsinteresserte, den som er fys på å ta bedre valg, eller deg som bare er litt nørd.
]]> <![CDATA[Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)]]> 112537 243 Arthur C. Clarke 1857231589 Erik 4
Vi følger astronautene som utforsker dette mystiske objektet, og bokens største styrke ligger i den evige undringen over hva de møter rundt neste sving. Leseren fôres med tvister og overraskelser � men interessant nok er det astronautene ikke finner vel så spennende som det de faktisk støter på.

Boka vil utvilsomt teste tålmodigheten til dem som liker klare konklusjoner og svar på sølvfat. Selv liker jeg løse tråder, men jeg må innrømme at denne kostet meg et par hårstrå.

Likevel: fremragende sci-fi for åpne sinn!]]> 4.12 1973 Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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En gåtefull flyvende tallerkenstabel, eller sylinder om du legger godvilja til, entrer solsystemet: Rama.

Vi følger astronautene som utforsker dette mystiske objektet, og bokens største styrke ligger i den evige undringen over hva de møter rundt neste sving. Leseren fôres med tvister og overraskelser � men interessant nok er det astronautene ikke finner vel så spennende som det de faktisk støter på.

Boka vil utvilsomt teste tålmodigheten til dem som liker klare konklusjoner og svar på sølvfat. Selv liker jeg løse tråder, men jeg må innrømme at denne kostet meg et par hårstrå.

Likevel: fremragende sci-fi for åpne sinn!
]]> The Remains of the Day 28921 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.]]> 258 Kazuo Ishiguro Erik 0 to-read 4.14 1989 The Remains of the Day
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]]> The Fall of Yugoslavia 328476 314 Misha Glenny 014026101X Erik 0 to-read 3.85 1992 The Fall of Yugoslavia
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]]> The Balkans: A Short History 278216 240 Mark Mazower 081296621X Erik 0 to-read 3.72 2000 The Balkans: A Short History
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]]> <![CDATA[Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future]]> 18050143
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.]]> 195 Peter Thiel 0804139296 Erik 0 to-read 4.15 2014 Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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]]> <![CDATA[Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies]]> 20527133 Superintelligence asks the questions: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful—possibly beyond our control. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence.

But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation?]]> 352 Nick Bostrom 0199678111 Erik 0 to-read 3.86 2014 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World]]> 10483171
In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue infinitely?

In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility.

'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement

'Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive' Economist

'David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age' Scotsman]]> 487 David Deutsch 0670022756 Erik 0 to-read 4.16 2011 The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention� and How to Think Deeply Again]]> 57933306 Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back.

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.]]> 357 Johann Hari 0593138511 Erik 0 to-read 4.22 2022 Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness]]> 171681821
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.� —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood� has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]> 400 Jonathan Haidt 0593655036 Erik 0 to-read 4.36 2024 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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]]> Holes (Holes, #1) 38709
It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.]]> 272 Louis Sachar 0439244196 Erik 0 to-read 4.01 1998 Holes (Holes, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology]]> 60321447
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything� from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market � runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge isslipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea,Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil,is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand.America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.]]> 464 Chris Miller 1982172002 Erik 0 to-read 4.38 2022 Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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]]> The City and the Stars 250024
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars.

But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.]]> 255 Arthur C. Clarke Erik 0 to-read 4.08 1956 The City and the Stars
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]]> Childhood’s End 414999
But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?]]> 224 Arthur C. Clarke Erik 0 to-read 4.12 1953 Childhood’s End
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]]> Kvitleik 77922788 71 Jon Fosse 8234009818 Erik 2 3.70 2023 Kvitleik
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Passe uinteressant novelle om døden.
]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Erik 5
Neida, jeg kan faktisk si det med en gang: én av grunnene er alle frampekene.

Dostojevski gir alltid akkurat nok informasjon til at jeg (tror jeg) forstår greia, samtidig som jeg undres over hvordan dette skal gå.

Det er rett og slett en fryd hvordan Dostojevski ruller opp denne russiske Orderud-saken, der man etterhvert blir godt kjent med horebukken Fjodor Pavlovitsj, brushanen Dimitri, bezzerwizzeren Ivan og Messias-figuren Aljosja, som sammen utgjør origo i bokas gigantiske persongalleri.

Utover spennende karakterer og god historiefortelling byr Brødrene Karamasov på utallige filosofiske passasjer. Sentralt er kirkens plass i samfunnet, lov og rett, det ondes problem og hvordan vi møter samfunnets svakeste. Disse passasjene er stort sett interessante, selv om enkelte av resonnementene sikkert var mer originale i samtiden enn de er i dag.

Alt i alt er Brødrene Karamasov en uimotståelig alt-i-ett-pakke på 1,2 kg. Du får familiekrønike, rettsdrama, krimroman, historisk roman og filosofisk mesterverk � på én og samme tid!]]> 4.36 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
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En nydelig bok som til tider er umulig å legge fra seg. Og grunnen til at jeg sier dette vil jeg komme tilbake til på et passende tidspunkt i anmeldelsen.

Neida, jeg kan faktisk si det med en gang: én av grunnene er alle frampekene.

Dostojevski gir alltid akkurat nok informasjon til at jeg (tror jeg) forstår greia, samtidig som jeg undres over hvordan dette skal gå.

Det er rett og slett en fryd hvordan Dostojevski ruller opp denne russiske Orderud-saken, der man etterhvert blir godt kjent med horebukken Fjodor Pavlovitsj, brushanen Dimitri, bezzerwizzeren Ivan og Messias-figuren Aljosja, som sammen utgjør origo i bokas gigantiske persongalleri.

Utover spennende karakterer og god historiefortelling byr Brødrene Karamasov på utallige filosofiske passasjer. Sentralt er kirkens plass i samfunnet, lov og rett, det ondes problem og hvordan vi møter samfunnets svakeste. Disse passasjene er stort sett interessante, selv om enkelte av resonnementene sikkert var mer originale i samtiden enn de er i dag.

Alt i alt er Brødrene Karamasov en uimotståelig alt-i-ett-pakke på 1,2 kg. Du får familiekrønike, rettsdrama, krimroman, historisk roman og filosofisk mesterverk � på én og samme tid!
]]> Men du ser ikke syk ut 53265455
Hun er en av flere hundre tusen nordmenn som lever med en usynlig sykdom. Selv om de har ulike diagnose, kan de oppleve samme bagatellisering og mistenkeliggjøring - fra leger, Nav og arbeidsgiver, til og med fra venner og familie. De får høre at de må skjerpe seg. Slutte å syte. Bare tenke positivt.

I boken "Men du ser ikke syk ut" utfordrer Holmås denne mistenkeliggjøringen. Hun inviterer leseren med bak kulissene til en person som later som om hun er frisk i frykt for å bli mistenkt for å late som hun er syk.

Hennes historie om skjuling, skam og selvbedrag flettes sammen med korte essays og kreative elementer til en sjarmerende, men samfunnskritisk bok. Med humor og lekenhet utforsker hun hvor fordommene kommer far, hvorfor kunnskapshullet om sykdommer som rammer flest kvinner er så stort, og hvorfor i alle dager folk prøver å kurere henne med yoga og rare juicer.]]> 236 Ragnhild Holmås Erik 4
Derfor er denne full av lærdom og tilsynelatende åpenbare ting sånne som meg aldri har tenkt på � både når det kommer til egen fremferd rundt kronisk syke, og hvordan vi som samfunn forholder oss til denne gruppa.

Til tross for det tunge temaet er boka skrevet med en forbløffende lekenhet om en tar forfatterens livssituasjon i betraktning, selv om humoren til tider blir i overkant koselig for min smak.]]> 4.57 Men du ser ikke syk ut
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Jeg har begrenset erfaring med langvarig sykdom.

Derfor er denne full av lærdom og tilsynelatende åpenbare ting sånne som meg aldri har tenkt på � både når det kommer til egen fremferd rundt kronisk syke, og hvordan vi som samfunn forholder oss til denne gruppa.

Til tross for det tunge temaet er boka skrevet med en forbløffende lekenhet om en tar forfatterens livssituasjon i betraktning, selv om humoren til tider blir i overkant koselig for min smak.
]]> <![CDATA[Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West]]> 394535 Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.]]> 351 Cormac McCarthy Erik 0 to-read 4.18 1985 Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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]]> No Country for Old Men 23515727 No Country for Old Men is a triumph.]]> 309 Cormac McCarthy 0375706674 Erik 0 to-read 4.25 2005 No Country for Old Men
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]]> The Road 6288
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 241 Cormac McCarthy 0307265439 Erik 0 to-read 3.99 2006 The Road
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]]> Player Piano 9597
Alternate cover edition here]]> 341 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385333781 Erik 0 to-read 3.90 1952 Player Piano
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]]> Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.�

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.]]> 275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Erik 0 to-read 4.10 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: Erik
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]]> <![CDATA[Ved elven Piedra satt jeg og gråt]]> 1907956 En magisk historie om to unge elskende og deres kamp for å finne kjærligheten og livets mening.

Hun er en moderne ung kvinne som har lært seg å kontrollere følelsene sine og se rasjonelt på tilværelsen. Han er en mann som kan gjøre undere, og som har søkt seg til religionens verden og blitt en karismatisk åndelig leder.
I barndommen var de uatskillelige, men i tenårene gikk de ulike veier. Når de nå møtes etter elleve år er det mye som skiller dem fra hverandre.
Samen gir de seg ut på en reise gjennom Pyreneenes storslåtte landskap, og vi får følge dem på deres vanskelige vandring for å finne hverandre på nytt.
De må kjempe mot sine egne fordommer og redsler, men underveis oppdager de hjertets og sjelens hemmeligheter - og til slutt også sin dype kjærlighet til hverandre.

Paulo Coelho har skrevet en poetisk og tankevekkende kjærlighetsroman om livets dypeste mysterier.]]> 206 Paulo Coelho 8280870024 Erik 0 to-read 3.23 1994 Ved elven Piedra satt jeg og gråt
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Erik
average rating: 3.23
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]]> Lolita 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]> 368 Vladimir Nabokov 0679723161 Erik 0 to-read 3.87 1955 Lolita
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: Erik
average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[All Quiet on the Western Front]]> 355697
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war�. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier� experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.]]> 296 Erich Maria Remarque 0449213943 Erik 0 to-read 4.04 1928 All Quiet on the Western Front
author: Erich Maria Remarque
name: Erik
average rating: 4.04
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]]> Maskiner som tenker 144711751
Når du ikke klarer å slutte å scrolle på sosiale medier er det databaserte algoritmer du kan takke for minuttene du aldri får tilbake. Sommeren 2022 varslet en Google-ingeniør om et dataprogram som hadde blitt bevisst, og få måneder senere sendte norske lærere bekymringsmelding til Stortinget på grunn av en intelligent chatbot. Alt dette � fra algoritmer som påvirker enkeltpersoner, til intelligente dataprogrammer i samfunnet � koker ned til ett spørsmål: Hvordan fungerer kunstig intelligens?

I Maskiner som tenker skriver Inga Strümke om hvordan vi mennesker prøver å lage kunstig intelligens, om vi endelig er i ferd med å lykkes, og om vi i det hele tatt kan fatte hva den nye teknologien vil innebære.]]> 309 Inga Strümke 8248932508 Erik 4 When I die, bury me inside the Louie store (True)"

Har maskinlæringsmodeller rett til å bruke mesterverk som Birthday Song til å trene modellene sine, uten noen form for kompensasjon til artisten? Og bør 2 Chainz beskyttes i møte med sine kunstige likemenn?

Juridiske og etiske spørsmål à la dette er det hundreogørten av, og Strümke legger dem frem på en ikke-tørr måte som bør fascinere alle med et moralsk kompass. Mange av problemstillingene var nye for meg. Digger også kapittelet om sikkerhetsproblematikk ved modellene, her var det meste nytt.

Om man (dvs. meg) har litt småpeil på data, algoritmer og sentrale AI-konsepter (skryter voldsomt nå) uteblir dog den store a-ha opplevelsen som hadde vippet boka opp på 5 stjerner. Men uansett en kul bok jeg anbefaler varmt.]]> 4.22 2023 Maskiner som tenker
author: Inga Strümke
name: Erik
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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"When I die, bury me inside the Gucci store (Tell 'em)
When I die, bury me inside the Louie store (True)"

Har maskinlæringsmodeller rett til å bruke mesterverk som Birthday Song til å trene modellene sine, uten noen form for kompensasjon til artisten? Og bør 2 Chainz beskyttes i møte med sine kunstige likemenn?

Juridiske og etiske spørsmål à la dette er det hundreogørten av, og Strümke legger dem frem på en ikke-tørr måte som bør fascinere alle med et moralsk kompass. Mange av problemstillingene var nye for meg. Digger også kapittelet om sikkerhetsproblematikk ved modellene, her var det meste nytt.

Om man (dvs. meg) har litt småpeil på data, algoritmer og sentrale AI-konsepter (skryter voldsomt nå) uteblir dog den store a-ha opplevelsen som hadde vippet boka opp på 5 stjerner. Men uansett en kul bok jeg anbefaler varmt.
]]> <![CDATA[Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams]]> 34466963 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318.

Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.]]> 368 Matthew Walker Erik 3 4.37 2017 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
author: Matthew Walker
name: Erik
average rating: 4.37
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)]]> 70535
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.

But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...

One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.]]> 297 Arthur C. Clarke Erik 4
På den ene siden setter boka i gang små eksistensielle kriser hver gang jeg tar den opp (det er bra). Og den er deilig abstrakt, oppfinnsom og uforutsigbar.

På den andre siden er den proppfull av tekniske beskrivelser av romfartsteknologi som jeg skumleste gjennom uten å føle noen verdens ting.

Realistiske teknologiskildringer er visst noe Stanley Kubrick og Arthur Clarke tok stor prestisje i da de skrev 2001, ettersom den ble utgitt kun ett år ø månelandingen. Kult det, men 10 sider på rappen med detaljerte beskrivelser av romferjas eksteriør og interiør beveger meg ikke.

Alt i alt lander jeg (foreløpig) på at boka er original, forutseende, og interessant nok til å fortjene 4-stjerner, til tross for teknologikrimskramset.]]> 4.17 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Erik
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1968
rating: 4
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Godt over en måned siden jeg fulløte den, men har ennå ikke helt bestemt meg.

På den ene siden setter boka i gang små eksistensielle kriser hver gang jeg tar den opp (det er bra). Og den er deilig abstrakt, oppfinnsom og uforutsigbar.

På den andre siden er den proppfull av tekniske beskrivelser av romfartsteknologi som jeg skumleste gjennom uten å føle noen verdens ting.

Realistiske teknologiskildringer er visst noe Stanley Kubrick og Arthur Clarke tok stor prestisje i da de skrev 2001, ettersom den ble utgitt kun ett år ø månelandingen. Kult det, men 10 sider på rappen med detaljerte beskrivelser av romferjas eksteriør og interiør beveger meg ikke.

Alt i alt lander jeg (foreløpig) på at boka er original, forutseende, og interessant nok til å fortjene 4-stjerner, til tross for teknologikrimskramset.
]]> Krig og fred 15738417 Russia. Balls and soirées, the burning of Moscow, the intrigues of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles, the quiet moments of everyday life--all in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The Maudes' translation of Tolstoy's epic masterpiece has long been
considered the best English version, and now for the first time it has been revised to bring it fully into line with modern approaches to the text. French passages are restored, Anglicization of Russian names removed, and outmoded expressions updated. A new introduction by Amy Mandelker considers
the novel's literary and historical context, the nature of the work, and Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical aims. New, expanded notes provide historical background and identifications, as well as insight into Russian life and society.]]> 1440 Leo Tolstoy 8702012308 Erik 0 to-read 4.22 1869 Krig og fred
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]]> I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) 41804
I, ROBOT

They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should ' remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either.

As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete?

In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man's dream to play god. with all its rewards—and terrors.
--front flap]]> 224 Isaac Asimov 0553803700 Erik 5
Ta for eksempel den telepatiske roboten Herbie i novellen Liar. Herbie kan lese tanker og har lest store mengder litteratur, men eksistensgrunnlaget hans er å gi mennesker tilfredsstillende svar på spørsmålene deres � ikke nødvendigvis sannheten. Minner om noen du kjenner?

Jeg drister meg til å si at I, Robot er det naturlige startpunktet hvis man vil lese skjønnlitterært om nåtidens største hype. Tankene den setter i gang fortjener 5 stjerner, selv om handlingen vært kunne vært spritet opp med litt ekstra nerve her og der.]]> 4.22 1950 I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Erik
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1950
rating: 5
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Novellesamlingen utforsker AI-etikk og filosofi både spist og bredt. Utgitt i 1950, men har neppe vært mer relevant enn nå.

Ta for eksempel den telepatiske roboten Herbie i novellen Liar. Herbie kan lese tanker og har lest store mengder litteratur, men eksistensgrunnlaget hans er å gi mennesker tilfredsstillende svar på spørsmålene deres � ikke nødvendigvis sannheten. Minner om noen du kjenner?

Jeg drister meg til å si at I, Robot er det naturlige startpunktet hvis man vil lese skjønnlitterært om nåtidens største hype. Tankene den setter i gang fortjener 5 stjerner, selv om handlingen vært kunne vært spritet opp med litt ekstra nerve her og der.
]]> <![CDATA[The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)]]> 386162
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 193 Douglas Adams Erik 0 to-read 4.28 1979 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
author: Douglas Adams
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> Pesten 17404457
Romanen demonstrerer således, at der findes en human eksistentialisme. Hovedværk fra 1947 i forfatterskabet.]]> 380 Albert Camus 8702120011 Erik 0 to-read 3.66 1947 Pesten
author: Albert Camus
name: Erik
average rating: 3.66
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]> 13651 387 Ursula K. Le Guin Erik 0 to-read 4.24 1974 The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 16690 288 Robert A. Heinlein 0340837942 Erik 0 to-read 4.16 1966 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
author: Robert A. Heinlein
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]]> Stranger in a Strange Land 350 NAME: Valentine Michael Smith
ANCESTRY: Human
ORIGIN: Mars

Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.]]> 525 Robert A. Heinlein Erik 0 to-read 3.93 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Erik
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1961
rating: 0
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]]> Skolens omsorgssvikt 128580594 130 Ole Martin Moen 8202794048 Erik 0 to-read 4.16 2023 Skolens omsorgssvikt
author: Ole Martin Moen
name: Erik
average rating: 4.16
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]]> The Selfish Gene 61535 360 Richard Dawkins 0199291152 Erik 5 Where we ain't scared to run up on ya
You ain't prepared when it go down
You already dead right about now»

Hvorfor er det slik i nabolaget rapperen Jay Rock skildrer her, mens det finnes andre nabolag som derimot preges av tillit, samarbeid og altruisme?

Dette, og mange andre spørsmål, vil Dawkins gi deg særdeles overbevisende svar på. Strålende bok som utfordrer mye av det jeg trodde jeg visste om evolusjon.

IKKE les den norske oversettelsen, virker å være gjort i Google Translate.]]> 4.15 1976 The Selfish Gene
author: Richard Dawkins
name: Erik
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1976
rating: 5
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«Welcome to Watts, California
Where we ain't scared to run up on ya
You ain't prepared when it go down
You already dead right about now»

Hvorfor er det slik i nabolaget rapperen Jay Rock skildrer her, mens det finnes andre nabolag som derimot preges av tillit, samarbeid og altruisme?

Dette, og mange andre spørsmål, vil Dawkins gi deg særdeles overbevisende svar på. Strålende bok som utfordrer mye av det jeg trodde jeg visste om evolusjon.

IKKE les den norske oversettelsen, virker å være gjort i Google Translate.
]]> Prosessen 16118476 198 Franz Kafka 8252520634 Erik 0 to-read 4.14 1925 Prosessen
author: Franz Kafka
name: Erik
average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]> 80571
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.

When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America’s nuclear secrets.

In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the authors capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.]]> 721 Kai Bird Erik 0 to-read 4.27 2005 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
author: Kai Bird
name: Erik
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2005
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]]> &Dz;ééԱ𳾱Գ 819954 130 Annie Ernaux 2070419231 Erik 0 to-read 4.35 2000 L'événement
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Erik
average rating: 4.35
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]]> On Ugliness 520738 Eco's encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling skills combine in this ingenious study of the Ugly, revealing that what we often shield ourselves from and shun in everyday life is what we're most attracted to subliminally. Topics range from Milton's Satan to Goethe's Mephistopheles; from witchcraft and medieval torture tactics to martyrs, hermits, and penitents; from lunar births and disemboweled corpses to mythic monsters and sideshow freaks; and from Decadentism and picturesque ugliness to the tacky, kitsch, and camp, and the aesthetics of excess and vice. With abundant examples of painting and sculpture ranging from ancient Greek amphorae to Bosch, Brueghel, and Goya among others, and with quotations from the most celebrated writers and philosophers of each age, this provocative discussion explores in-depth the concepts of evil, depravity, and darkness in art and literature.]]> 456 Umberto Eco 0847829863 Erik 0 to-read 3.85 2007 On Ugliness
author: Umberto Eco
name: Erik
average rating: 3.85
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]]> Foucault’s Pendulum 17841
Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled � a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.]]> 623 Umberto Eco 015603297X Erik 0 to-read 3.92 1988 Foucault’s Pendulum
author: Umberto Eco
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]]> History of Beauty 10505 History of Beauty, making this intellectual and philosophical journey with one of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers available in a more compact and affordable format.

From the Trade Paperback edition]]> 438 Umberto Eco 0847826465 Erik 0 to-read 3.83 2004 History of Beauty
author: Umberto Eco
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> The Name of the Rose 119073 552 Umberto Eco 0156001314 Erik 0 to-read 4.13 1980 The Name of the Rose
author: Umberto Eco
name: Erik
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1980
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]]> <![CDATA[Sove ute : håndbok for netter i sovepose]]> 54564163 Tenk å sovne under stjernene. Våkne med sola i øynene. Den opplevelsen ligger lett tilgjengelig for de fleste. Vi må bare ut og finne den. Med denne boka blir terskelen for å komme dit mye lavere. Marius Nergård Pettersen har totalt tilbragt flere år under åpen himmel. Denne boka er hans feltguide for nettene der ute. Den er lettlest og konkret, variert og fylt med informasjon. Her er alt du trenger å vite om overnattingsformer, nødvendig utstyr, naturopplevelser, utfordringer, planlegging og pakking. Boka er også full av inspirerende turbilder fra hele landet, i tillegg til intervjuer med erfarne utefolk. Kom deg ut. Og sov godt.]]> 225 Marius Nergård Pettersen Erik 0 to-read 3.96 Sove ute : håndbok for netter i sovepose
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]]> Tante Ulrikkes vei 36275478
«Det er tradisjon å kalle den østefødte Mohammed, og Profeten er alle muslimers forbilde, men liksom, de som er så opptatt av at jeg skal komme ut dit og få en fin jobb og alt det der, jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor de ga meg det navnet.»

Det er Norge på 2000-tallet. To gutter vokser opp i Tante Ulrikkes vei på Stovner i Oslo. Foreldrene hadde et håp. Selv står de midt i brytningen mellom drabantbyen og storsamfunnet, mellom vaskehallen og studentkantina, karakterer og keef.]]> 432 Zeshan Shakar 8205509352 Erik 3
Egentlig ikke. Og det er jo bra � heldigvis for samfunnet og uheldigvis for min leseropplevelse er problematikken høyere opp i dagen enn da boka ble utgitt. Selv om det fortsatt er en vei å gå.

3,49 stjerner.]]> 4.22 2017 Tante Ulrikkes vei
author: Zeshan Shakar
name: Erik
average rating: 4.22
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rating: 3
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Kult fortalt, sprek slutt og alt i alt en bedre bok enn den gule. Men gir boka noe mer innsikt i fenomenet Groruddalen enn det jeg har fra groruddalske venner, Gul Bok, riksmedia og en oppvekst på et sted med liknende sosioøkonomiske forhold?

Egentlig ikke. Og det er jo bra � heldigvis for samfunnet og uheldigvis for min leseropplevelse er problematikken høyere opp i dagen enn da boka ble utgitt. Selv om det fortsatt er en vei å gå.

3,49 stjerner.
]]> Gul bok 53419067 Mani er nyutdannet økonom og har nettopp fått jobb i Oppvekstdepartementet. Han er en ung mann som bor sammen med faren sin i en leilighet på Haugenstua, og som har en kjæreste han tror han skal gifte seg med. Helst ville han ha brukt evnene sine i det private næringsliv, der prestisjen og pengene sitter, for han er smertelig klar over at både kjæresten og miljøet rundt ham bare ser med forakt på «offentlig sektor». Lavt lønnet er det også.
Den nye jobbtilværelsen innebærer tilpasning til helt nye verdiskalaer, der en gammel leilighet i Gamlebyen er mer ettertraktet enn Manis nye, og dyre, leilighet på Skillebekk, og der Manis faste kebabsjappe er «genuin» og rangeres høyere enn Theatercaféen. Samtidig blir Mani også en stolt bidragsyter til det store felles prosjektet som kalles Staten.

Gul bok er en roman om klasse og tilhørighet, om livet vi lever og rammene rundt det. Det er også en fortelling om hvor man kommer fra og hvor man er på vei. Det er langt fra Haugenstua til Y-blokka.]]> 286 Zeshan Shakar 8205538212 Erik 3
For handlingen kunne med fordel tatt flere fiffige vendinger, avslutter lederen i foreningen "Vi som ikke uten videre sluker hyperrealistisk samtidslitteratur" i sin uttalelse til ŷ.]]> 3.85 2020 Gul bok
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Bra skrevet, gjenkjennelig og et interessant innblikk i livet som minoritetsmann i et hvitt arbeidsmiljø. Og det er spennende å lese om hverdagen i Groruddalen. Helt frelst er jeg dog ikke.

For handlingen kunne med fordel tatt flere fiffige vendinger, avslutter lederen i foreningen "Vi som ikke uten videre sluker hyperrealistisk samtidslitteratur" i sin uttalelse til ŷ.
]]> <![CDATA[Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany]]> 29429893 360 Norman Ohler 0241256992 Erik 0 to-read 4.04 2015 Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
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]]> Georg-komplekset 61429509

Engang var han en succesrig forfatter, som solgte bøger i massevis, og både læserne og anmelderne elskede ham. Nu er han bare en midaldrende mand i skrivekrise. Men det er ikke engang det værste. Det værste er, at hans kone er begyndt at skrive en roman, og den er blevet antaget på et stort forlag, og de garanterer, at den bliver en kæmpe bestseller. Georg går i panik, og i sin desperation beslutter han sig


1. at sabotere sin kones bog


2. at skrive en bestseller ø sin kone, om han så skal plagiere sig til det


GEORG-KOMPLEKSET er en rablende, paranoid og pinligt ærlig kriseroman om, hvor langt man vil gå for succes. Et blodigt ægteskabsdrama med voodoo, mord og djævelskab � og alle de grimme følelser, som kan være lige så svære at rejse sig fra som en behagelig lænestol.]]> 245 Kirsten Hammann 8702381826 Erik 0 to-read 3.18 2022 Georg-komplekset
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]]> Lost Horizon 39092290 James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La.

Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane.

When his plane crashes high in the Himalayas, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La.

Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise—a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley. But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war.

Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century.
]]> 166 James Hilton Erik 0 to-read 4.01 1933 Lost Horizon
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]]> The Other Side 847735 The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Perle, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconscious. Or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'.

Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake.]]> 320 Alfred Kubin 1873982690 Erik 0 to-read 3.82 1909 The Other Side
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]]> <![CDATA[Hvis det skulle komme et menneske]]> 123274003 Korsgaard er mottaker av De Gyldne Laurbær - Danmarks viktigste bokpris. Første bind i trilogien som har solgt mer enn 320 000 eksemplarer i Danmark.

Hvis det skulle komme et menneske er en sterk roman om fattigdom i utkanten av det danske velferdssamfunnet, om å være barn i en familie som mangler overskudd både av penger og følelser. Og om å være overlatt til seg selv og måtte ta altfor mye ansvar altfor tidlig i livet. Men det er også fortellingen om en oppfinnsom og nysgjerrig gutt med stor skapertrang. En gutt som kommer til å vokse opp og finne sin egen vei, uansett hvilken motgang livet byr på. Og ikke minst å aldri, ALDRI glemme hvor man kommer fra. Korsgaard forteller med så mye svart humor og så sterk empati med personene sine, at boken er umulig å legge fra seg.

Danske kritikere har ikke spart på superlativene og har blant annet beskrevet den som «brutal, bevegende og rørende vakker ... uhyre vellykket debutroman ... på samme tid overbevisende og livsbejaende.» Thomas Korsgaard er født i 1995. Han har utgitt én novellesamling, som han ble nominert til EUs litteraturpris for, og trilogien om Tue, som han blant annet har blitt æret med De Gyldne Laurbær for.]]> 280 Thomas Korsgaard 8234710923 Erik 0 to-read 3.95 2017 Hvis det skulle komme et menneske
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]]> <![CDATA[Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals]]> 26535513 Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how
Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data � Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it.]]> 288 Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic 1119002257 Erik 4 4.39 2015 Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
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Ble litt distrahert av den pretensiøse business-streiting-språkdrakten («leverage a friend for their fresh perspective»
]]> <![CDATA[The Creative Act: A Way of Being]]> 60965426 From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.

"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment." --Anne Lamott

"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Rick Rubin

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments--and lifetimes--of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.]]> 406 Rick Rubin 0593652886 Erik 3
Men som megafan av Rick Rubin er dette ok, nesten meditativ lesning. Skipper dog rådet hans om å la sprukne blindtarmer være i fred.]]> 4.00 2023 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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Den midterste tredjedelen er byr på praktiske råd, resten består av kvasireligiøse new-age-greier, teknobabbel og selvmotsigelser.

Men som megafan av Rick Rubin er dette ok, nesten meditativ lesning. Skipper dog rådet hans om å la sprukne blindtarmer være i fred.
]]> <![CDATA[Den som jubler sist: Siste nytt ø sammenbruddet 001]]> 139706769 Den som jubler sist er en hyperaktuell fortelling om tiden som går og tiden vi lever i, om innovasjon og stagnasjon, om historiens lange linjer og kronglete sidespor, om de mørke kreftene som lurer i hverdagen og glimtene av lys og håp. Boken byr på underholdning, spenning og tilløp til erotikk, og vil egne seg for alle som har sittet i en komité eller et møte, som har skrevet eller lest en rapport, jobbet på kontor eller angret seg etter en firmafest � kort sagt folk flest.

Vy sliter med omdømmet. Jernbanens forestående 175-årsjubileum kan bli en mulighet til å gjenopprette tilliten blant publikum. Til å utarbeide et passende konsept har ledelsen nedsatt en komité som forener noen av landets sterkeste kreative krefter.

Arbeidet går trått, inntil det i grevens tid dukker opp en genial idé: en togtur som sprenger alle grenser. Men kan konseptet gjennomøes? Og i så fall, til hvilken pris?]]> 192 Thomas Lundbo 8202786819 Erik 0 to-read 3.06 Den som jubler sist: Siste nytt ø sammenbruddet 001
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]]> <![CDATA[Outliers: The Story of Success]]> 3228917 Learn what sets high achievers apart � from Bill Gates to the Beatles � in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.]]> 309 Malcolm Gladwell 0316017922 Erik 4 4.19 2008 Outliers: The Story of Success
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]]> <![CDATA[The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece]]> 62673108 From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film . . . and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years.

Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero.

Cut to the present day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie.

Cue the cast: We meet the film's extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and everyone else on both sides of the camera.

Bonus material: Interspersed throughout are three comic books that are featured in the story--all created by Tom Hanks himself--including the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novel's major motion picture masterpiece.]]> 448 Tom Hanks 052565559X Erik 0 to-read 3.64 2023 The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
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]]> <![CDATA[Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction]]> 23995360
In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people—including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer—who set out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. They’ve even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are "superforecasters."

In this groundbreaking and accessible book, Tetlock and Gardner show us how we can learn from this elite group. Weaving together stories of forecasting successes (the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound) and failures (the Bay of Pigs) and interviews with a range of high-level decision makers, from David Petraeus to Robert Rubin, they show that good forecasting doesn’t require powerful computers or arcane methods. It involves gathering evidence from a variety of sources, thinking probabilistically, working in teams, keeping score, and being willing to admit error and change course. Superforecasting offers the first demonstrably effective way to improve our ability to predict the future—whether in business, finance, politics, international affairs, or daily life—and is destined to become a modern classic.]]> 352 Philip E. Tetlock 0804136696 Erik 4 4.06 2015 Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
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Spennende forskning, artige historier og gode tips til oss som må forutse fremtiden en gang i blant. OBS: Thinking Fast & Slow er obligatorisk pre-read.
]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Erik 0 to-read 4.48 2006 Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Forecasting: principles and practice]]> 21912876 292 Rob J. Hyndman 0987507109 Erik 0 to-read 4.43 2013 Forecasting: principles and practice
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]]> Silence: In the Age of Noise 36243813 Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion - silence - lies in wait. But what really is silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more important now than ever?

Erling Kagge, the Norwegian adventurer and polymath, once spent fifty days walking solo in Antarctica with a broken radio. In this meditative, charming and surprisingly powerful book, he explores the power of silence and the importance of shutting out the world. Whether you're in deep wilderness, taking a shower or on the dance floor, you can experience perfect stillness if you know where to look. And from it grows self-knowledge, gratitude, wonder and much more.

Take a deep breath, and prepare to submerge yourself in Silence. Your own South Pole is out there, somewhere.

]]> 131 Erling Kagge 0241981379 Erik 0 to-read 3.80 2016 Silence: In the Age of Noise
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]]> When Breath Becomes Air 25899336
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.]]> 208 Paul Kalanithi 0812988418 Erik 0 to-read 4.41 2016 When Breath Becomes Air
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]]> <![CDATA[The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy]]> 29502362 Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to insure a capitalism that works for us all.

In this scathing indictment of our current global financial system, The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been determined and reveals how the difference between value creation and value extraction has become increasingly blurry. Mariana Mazzucato argues that this blurriness allowed certain actors in the economy to portray themselves as value creators, while in reality they were just moving existing value around or, even worse, destroying it.

The book uses case studies - from Silicon Valley to the financial sector to big pharma - to show how the foggy notions of value create confusion between rents and profits, a difference that distorts the measurements of growth and GDP.

The lesson here is urgent and sobering: to rescue our economy from the next, inevitable crisis and to foster long-term economic growth, we will need to rethink capitalism, rethink the role of public policy and the importance of the public sector, and redefine how we measure value in our society.]]> 384 Mariana Mazzucato 161039674X Erik 0 to-read 4.08 2018 The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)]]> 61215384
The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The Return of the King is the third part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

The Dark Lord has risen, and as he unleashes hordes of Orcs to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into his realm in Mordor.

To defeat Sauron, the One Ring must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening. The Ring corrupts all who bear it and Frodo’s time is running out.

Will Sam and Frodo succeed, or will the Dark Lord rule Middle-earth once more?]]> 432 J.R.R. Tolkien Erik 5 Good shit 4.67 1955 The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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Good shit
]]> <![CDATA[Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy (Oxford Medical Publications)]]> 7943903
The scope of the book is comprehensive and international. The authors describe the conceptual basis for a rational alcohol policy and present new epidemiological data on the global dimensions of alcohol misuse. The core of the book is a critical review of the cumulative scientific evidence in seven general areas of alcohol pricing and taxation, regulating the physical availability of alcohol, modifying the environment in which drinking occurs, drinking-driving countermeasures, marketing restrictions, primary prevention programs in schools and other settings, and treatment and early intervention services. The final chapters discuss the current state of alcohol policy in different parts of the world and describe the need for a new approach to alcohol policy that is evidence-based, realistic, and coordinated.

It will appeal to those involved in both addiction science and drug policy, as well as those in the wider fields of public health, health policy, epidemiology, and practising clinicians.

A companion volume published by Oxford University Press, 'Drug Policy and the Public Good', is also available.]]> 320 Thomas F. Babor 0199551146 Erik 0 to-read 4.31 2010 Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy (Oxford Medical Publications)
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]]> Infinite Jest 6759
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.]]> 1088 David Foster Wallace Erik 0 to-read 4.27 1996 Infinite Jest
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)]]> 20518872 472 Liu Cixin Erik 0 to-read 4.08 2006 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)]]> 61215372
The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin—alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.]]> 448 J.R.R. Tolkien Erik 5 4.60 1954 The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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]]> Mamma er trygda 52366263
318.244 mennesker hever uøetrygd i Norge. En av dem er Marit Wilhelmsen. Hun er et trygdebeist, en udetonert bombe under velferdsstaten, en trussel mot alt det vi har kjært. I denne boka forteller sønnen, den profilerte forfatteren, politikeren og samfunnsdebattanten Mimir Kristjansson, den rørende historien om sin mor. Det er en fortelling om tiår med en alvorlig kreftsyk mamma, om drømmer som brast, en familie som går i oppløsning, om å foreta en klassereise bratt nedover. Det er en fortelling om å leve med en mor som har så store smerter at tenåringssønnen ikke ser noen annen mulighet enn å kjøpe hasj til henne i skolegården.

Varmt, inderlig og ofte humoristisk - samtidig med den hardtslående politiske retorikken som kjennetegner forfatteren - gir "Mamma er trygda" både en rystende familiehistorie og en innsideskildring av en samfunnsgruppe som ofte omtales, men som sjelden kommer til orde selv.]]> 189 Mímir Kristjánsson 8248922359 Erik 0 to-read 4.20 2019 Mamma er trygda
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]]> <![CDATA[Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life]]> 36064445 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility

In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life.

As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights:

� For social justice,focus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations.
� Ethical rules aren’t universal. You’re part of a group larger than you, but it’s still smaller than humanity in general.
� Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others.
� You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. “Educated philistines� have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.
� Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines.
� True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you’re willing to risk for it.

The phrase “skin in the game� is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, “The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster,� and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”]]> 272 Nassim Nicholas Taleb 0241300657 Erik 4 3.88 2018 Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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Mangler litt struktur, men hvem bryr seg? Ideen er god, og digresjonene er interessante om man klarer å filtrere ut (eller flire av) grenseløst bastante påstander om ting langt utenfor fagfeltet hans.
]]> What We Owe the Future 59802037 An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time.

The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more—or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today.

In What We Owe the Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human.

If we make wise choices today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.]]> 335 William MacAskill 1541618629 Erik 0 to-read 3.81 2022 What We Owe the Future
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]]> <![CDATA[The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically]]> 23168483
"Singer’s argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right. The world would be a better place if we were as tough-minded in how we donate money as in how we make it."—Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

"Bold, fresh, inspired, reasoned, optimistic."—Walter M. Bortz II, MD, Huffington Post Blog

Peter Singer’s books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation . Now he directs our attention to a new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profound idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the "most good you can do." Such a life requires an unsentimental view of charitable to be a worthy recipient of our support, an organization must be able to demonstrate that it will do more good with our money or our time than other options open to us. Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas, and shows how living altruistically often leads to greater personal fulfillment than living for oneself.

The Most Good You Can Do develops the challenges Singer has made, in the New York Times and Washington Post , to those who donate to the arts, and to charities focused on helping our fellow citizens, rather than those for whom we can do the most good. Effective altruists are extending our knowledge of the possibilities of living less selfishly, and of allowing reason, rather than emotion, to determine how we live. The Most Good You Can Do offers new hope for our ability to tackle the world’s most pressing problems.]]> 211 Peter Singer 0300180276 Erik 0 to-read 3.79 2015 The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
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]]> <![CDATA[One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest]]> 332613 9780451163967

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy � the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.]]> 325 Ken Kesey Erik 0 to-read 4.20 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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]]> Crime and Punishment 7144 671 Fyodor Dostoevsky Erik 0 to-read 4.26 1866 Crime and Punishment
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]]> Simple Passion 399257 80 Annie Ernaux 1583225749 Erik 0 to-read 3.92 1991 Simple Passion
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)]]> 61215351 One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.

In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.]]> 432 J.R.R. Tolkien Erik 5 4.52 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever]]> 62318410
This is the story of modern football’s great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game. Central to this cast is Chris Anderson, an academic with no experience in football, who saw data as an opportunity to fundamentally change a sport that did not think it could be changed. His aim: to infiltrate the strange, insular world of professional football by establishing a club whose entire DNA could be built around data.

Expected Goals charts his remarkable journey into the heart of the modern game and reveals how clubs across the world, from Liverpool to Leipzig and Brentford to Bayern Munich, began to see how data could help them unearth new players, define radical tactics and plot their path to glory.]]> 299 Rory Smith 0008484058 Erik 4 3.84 Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
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Endelig! En bok jeg likte skikkelig godt, etter en rekke 3-stjerners leseopplevelser. Suveren lesning for alle som er nysgjerrige på hva som skjer bak kulissene i internasjonal fotball.
]]> Children of Dune (Dune #3) 44492286
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities--making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.

Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure known only as The Preacher. Alia believes that by obtaining the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions, she can maintain control over her dynasty.

But Leto and Ghanima have their own plans for their visions--and their destinies....

Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert]]> 609 Frank Herbert 0593098242 Erik 3 3.96 1976 Children of Dune (Dune #3)
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Hovedingrediensene er fremsyn, indre kamper og knappe ressurser � med andre ord gjenoppfinner ikke Frank Herbert krydderet (
]]> Dette er nordmenn 62207143 141 Javad El Bakali 8248929795 Erik 3 3.76 Dette er nordmenn
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Helt ålreit observasjonshumor, må nevnes at jeg fikk høydepunktene spoilet av forfatteren selv i promopostene på insta.
]]> Den Fremmede 10889521 137 Albert Camus 8700456160 Erik 0 to-read 3.95 1942 Den Fremmede
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]]> The (Mis)Behavior of Markets 665134 352 Benoît B. Mandelbrot 0465043550 Erik 4
Skriver som Taleb (men uten arrogansen) om alt som er galt med antakelsene om normalfordelt avkastning, rasjonelle aktører og at kursutvikling er stokastisk.

Boka er velskrevet og pedagogisk, men det er en fordel å ha noen forkunnskaper om finans og statistikk.]]> 4.07 1997 The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
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average rating: 4.07
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rating: 4
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Bunnsolid av idolet til Taleb, mannen bak fraktalgeometri.

Skriver som Taleb (men uten arrogansen) om alt som er galt med antakelsene om normalfordelt avkastning, rasjonelle aktører og at kursutvikling er stokastisk.

Boka er velskrevet og pedagogisk, men det er en fordel å ha noen forkunnskaper om finans og statistikk.
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