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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Superb quick read. Appeals greatly to my love of cold wild places.
Tämä kirja tuli myös Helmet -lukuhaasteeseen kun piti lukea kirja joka sijoittuu syntymävuodelle, eli mun kohdallani 70-luvulle. Tämä oli ihan kiva! Jännä ja vaiheteleva ja tykkäsin enemmän kuin olin kuvitellut. Kivaa että eläin näin muutti ihmisen elämää ja että ihminen teki repäisyn tavallisesta arjesta ja kokeili jotain muuta. Oli kiva ylläri, en ollut aiemmin lukenut Paasilinnaa, joten tässäkin suhteessa lukuhaaste laajensi mun horisonttia.
adventurous
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I have been reading a few books by Scandinavian authors lately, most of them crime novels. This is my first by a Finnish author and not a crime novel. I am somewhat puzzled by the book. It is supposed to be humorous and parts of it were but such odd humor. Of course, it was originally published in 1975 and political changes have occurred everywhere and so to me this means it is mostly satirical.
Ovo je priča o oslobođenju iz okova modernog društva i bekstvu u prirodu, ali ne bekstva radi već zbog samospoznaje u izolovanosti divljine i približenja pravoj svrsi. Ona je za svakog ko je često promišljao da napusti sve i uskoči u nepoznato, u život avanture i neizvesnosti.
U prvi mah delovalo je da neću uživati, pisana je jednostavno i pravolinijski, bez mnogo zadržavanja na opisima i unutrašnjim razmišljanjima, već sa fokusom na događanjima, gotovo kao bajka. Smeštena je u Finsku i prati Vatanena, novinara nezadovoljnog svojim životom, koji nakon ranjavanja malog zeca odjuri za njim u šumu i impulsivno odlučuje da se više ne vrati. Putujući sa svojim novim ljubimcem kroz snežne predele finskog severa on upada u niz ludih pustolovina i nedaća, komičnih i na ivici verovatnog, i upoznaje zanimljive ljude koje fasciniraju ova dva neobična drugara.
Knjigu odlikuje veoma suptilan humor i satira i predstavlja kritiku savremenog puta kojim čovečanstvo ide, koji ostavlja ljude mizernim i neispunjenim. Ne očekujte previše jer knjiga nije ambiciozna već zabavna i jednostavna i u toj jednostavnosti se krije njena čar.
3.75/5
U prvi mah delovalo je da neću uživati, pisana je jednostavno i pravolinijski, bez mnogo zadržavanja na opisima i unutrašnjim razmišljanjima, već sa fokusom na događanjima, gotovo kao bajka. Smeštena je u Finsku i prati Vatanena, novinara nezadovoljnog svojim životom, koji nakon ranjavanja malog zeca odjuri za njim u šumu i impulsivno odlučuje da se više ne vrati. Putujući sa svojim novim ljubimcem kroz snežne predele finskog severa on upada u niz ludih pustolovina i nedaća, komičnih i na ivici verovatnog, i upoznaje zanimljive ljude koje fasciniraju ova dva neobična drugara.
Knjigu odlikuje veoma suptilan humor i satira i predstavlja kritiku savremenog puta kojim čovečanstvo ide, koji ostavlja ljude mizernim i neispunjenim. Ne očekujte previše jer knjiga nije ambiciozna već zabavna i jednostavna i u toj jednostavnosti se krije njena čar.
3.75/5
This is fast and fantastic and just the kind of gentle escapism I was looking for this week. I pulled it off a library shelf completely randomly, was encouraged by the “International Bestseller” banner on the cover, and was sold by the first sentence of the foreword: “Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?”
This isn’t ha-ha funny or sanctimonious in the way a lot of off-the-grid books can be, and it was just so nice to read about someone making decisions without much of an agenda (neither in his world nor in ours). It’s not a book about what to do or how to be (or about what *not* to do or how *not* to be) but just about what can happen if you indulge your curiosity and follow where life leads you (a bit like Alice following her own rabbit, perhaps?). It reads like good popular journalism and gave me a pleasant zen-like feeling of detachment and I really enjoyed it. What a nice surprise from a Finnish novel from 1975.
This isn’t ha-ha funny or sanctimonious in the way a lot of off-the-grid books can be, and it was just so nice to read about someone making decisions without much of an agenda (neither in his world nor in ours). It’s not a book about what to do or how to be (or about what *not* to do or how *not* to be) but just about what can happen if you indulge your curiosity and follow where life leads you (a bit like Alice following her own rabbit, perhaps?). It reads like good popular journalism and gave me a pleasant zen-like feeling of detachment and I really enjoyed it. What a nice surprise from a Finnish novel from 1975.