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The Long Ships
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bookshelves: europe, sweden, words-without-borders, male-identified-authors, exuberant-books, favorites-of-all-time, favorites-20th-century, my-kind-of-book
Jan 19, 2016
bookshelves: europe, sweden, words-without-borders, male-identified-authors, exuberant-books, favorites-of-all-time, favorites-20th-century, my-kind-of-book
Read 2 times. Last read February 23, 2025 to March 30, 2025.
There is no interior monologue in this novel. It's all on the outside. And even so when I think how to describe my feeling about this book, the words that come to mind are "what a lark! what a plunge!" The prose is one fresh breeze of a story after another. I loved it the way I loved Star Wars circa 1977: it allowed me to enter a world completely unlike the one I'm living in, and to know with confidence that there was going to be a happy ending.
Mar 30 2025…my second time through and it was just as witty. Maybe the word is ‘droll.� It’s incredibly good at making me feel as if I know these folks and what motivates them. This might be my favorite book of all time. It’s certainly one of the most enjoyable to read.
Mar 30 2025…my second time through and it was just as witty. Maybe the word is ‘droll.� It’s incredibly good at making me feel as if I know these folks and what motivates them. This might be my favorite book of all time. It’s certainly one of the most enjoyable to read.
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Reading Progress
January 19, 2016
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January 19, 2016
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at-my-local-library
January 24, 2016
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waitlist
January 27, 2016
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Started Reading
January 27, 2016
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"Am I really going to read a 503-page book about Vikings? I'm intrigued by the number of people I know with this book on their TBR list, and also by its lone 1-star review, which ends with such a gloriously alliterative phrase that itsounds insulting even though I don't know Swedish: "Överskattat skräp!"
I've read a lot of heavy books lately and so it's possible I'm exactly in the mood for some Överskattat skräp."
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I've read a lot of heavy books lately and so it's possible I'm exactly in the mood for some Överskattat skräp."
February 6, 2016
– Shelved as:
europe
February 6, 2016
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sweden
February 6, 2016
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words-without-borders
February 6, 2016
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male-identified-authors
February 6, 2016
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Finished Reading
September 9, 2017
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exuberant-books
September 9, 2017
– Shelved as:
favorites-of-all-time
September 18, 2017
– Shelved as:
favorites-20th-century
March 8, 2022
– Shelved as:
my-kind-of-book
February 23, 2025
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Started Reading
March 30, 2025
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Finished Reading
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Feb 08, 2016 01:25PM
Loved that book, surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I had no familiarity of Norse culture and Vikings... what a great read!
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I love this book too! I gave it to my son who read it as a young teenager. That was one of the most gratifying moments of something I offered as a father.
Lemar wrote: "I love this book too! I gave it to my son who read it as a young teenager. That was one of the most gratifying moments of something I offered as a father."Isn't it wonderful? Now I want to read it again. No one writes like this any longer. The way stuff keeps -happening-.
Ooh, I’ve got this on my TBR shelves! Thanks for the inspiration to actually read it!!
Jan, it's delightful. You just need to let it carry you off. And not worry about how many pages are ahead.
Sometimes I find a book on my TBR list and I can't remember how it got there -- I really need to create a bookshelf for all the books that I want to read based solely on your recommendations.
Tamara wrote: "Sometimes I find a book on my TBR list and I can't remember how it got there -- I really need to create a bookshelf for all the books that I want to read based solely on your recommendations."I can’t remember who first recommended it to me and I really wish I could! It’s definitely popular among people who have hear of it at all :-)
