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A review by stevendedalus
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg
3.0
One of those weird charming, meandering texts where some guy living remotely ponders life questions using some esoteric subject to bounce off of. I honestly feel like I've read this book a bunch of different times in a bunch of different versions.
I mean it IS charming. It bounces around, it's self-deprecating, you learn a few things, and contemplate for a bit the deeper questions of life.
The ending of this one going off a bit into art history doesn't gel all that well with the previous 250 pages, but it wraps up satisfyingly enough. There's really nothing to hate, it jist feels like a retread and a type that the more I dwell on the less I like. It feels bland, a mad libs philosophy text which only works at a surface, first-read level.
I mean it IS charming. It bounces around, it's self-deprecating, you learn a few things, and contemplate for a bit the deeper questions of life.
The ending of this one going off a bit into art history doesn't gel all that well with the previous 250 pages, but it wraps up satisfyingly enough. There's really nothing to hate, it jist feels like a retread and a type that the more I dwell on the less I like. It feels bland, a mad libs philosophy text which only works at a surface, first-read level.