after Pippi", so this means a bit of a period... joking; Lisbeth .. she's cool, but i don't know what to tell you, it's more of a brotherhood when she undresses and dunno empty hearts means means empty vessels. also fatigue .. is what I can discern when I let my mind fly, I mean it's not a onesided opinion - the opinion is fluctuating, it's being born in the very present and whether it's imagining or sealing the fate of man who happens to be in the position of speaker and given the right to make a monkey out of himself if we have in mind the option for growth of the very present we seem to be trapped in.

bokmål = Bergen, nynorsk = Oslo? which is the newly made language, which comes out of old Dansk?

It's not that simple, since every people in Norway speak a different language (if only slightly different).
Nynorsk is more spoken in Bergen, and bokmål in Oslo, but like I said, these speeches are tainted by regional accents and specificities.

Guess this would go here...

Unfortunately, Border's Bookstore, a national chain bookstore in the US, is going out of business.

Fortunately this means I picked up copies of Beowulf, The Saga of the Icelanders, the Poetic Edda, The Prince, and the Malleus Maleficarum for $70 total.

just flushed a short story by this boy of fame Andrew Porter ("The Theory of Light and Matter", 2008), "who is capable of achieving in few pages more than others accomplish with whole novels, titled Coyotes, 18 pages, pure slaughter... made me regrett taking seriously this guy while following him.. unfortunately, today i think, that his ambition is way over what he can ever possibly achieve,, way too ambitious, should I say young, to deal with such bestial matters... dunno may have been some auto-bio-necessity to tell the story b/w his mother and father - pure massacre of that which happened ... unfortunately, today i think, a writer shouldn't abstract, one can happen but extract from the trails of real life. not speaking is sometimes better, I'd say noble, a nobility a man makes by himself and for himself.

http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/A ... Matter.htm

the piece in bold on that site is a mislead, it's from the same short story, but it's not even on its surface, now, guess, the sole morale of such a story would be helplessness. Andrew Porter's grown-man-boy-writer's helplessness, that's all he could do about it, except his inward feelings, of course.

I received "Metalion - the Slayer Mag diaries" the other day, and I must say... wow. I never read the magazine while it was still alive, especially none of the classic issues from the late eighties/early nineties, so this is just worth gold. For some information: http://www.bazillionpoints.com/metalion ... g-diaries/

It's thick and heavy. 720 pages, every issue of SLAYER mag reproduced, with additional photography and comments to each issue by Metalion himself. I'm reading it chronologically; by now, death metal has exploded with Morbid angel, Nihilist etc, and Dead has just joined Mayhem - shit is brewing. The fascinating thing is that this is the ultimate insider story of the birth and early development of extreme metal in itself; rather than a journalist trying to explore the past, these issues are insider snap-shots of the growing global death/thrash/grind/black metal scene. You have Napalm Death on the verge of releasing Scum, you have the story behind Euronymus, Necrobutcher and Metalion himself trying to raise money for Deathcrush, you have all the bands that got nowhere and all the bands that grew huge. For anyone with the least interest in extreme metal in general, & Norwegian black metal in particular, this tome is mandatory reading. Especially the typical, childish fanzine style of the early issues is just lovely. The interview with Jim PLotkin and Alan Dubin of Regurgitation (later Old Lady Drivers, down the road Khanate) is worth the book in itself. + all the weird & absurd cartoons. That book is pure bliss.

That sounds very, very interesting. A snapshot of the early scene. I would love to read it all but $75 is a bit expensive right now.

Do you have Adlibris in Denmark? I think it's only 250 sek, which should amount to approx. 200 dkk I think.

I read the section discussin the events in 1992-1993; him coping with the death of his best friends at the hands of a close friend, and his central part in the investigations afterwards. Really touching, actually, especally to have a personal perspective on events that have grown so mythologized and exploited by mainstream and metal media sensationalists & thrill-seeking black metal tourists alike.

Yes, we do, fortunately. Thanks. I can get it for DKK 258 which is a lot cheaper. Perhaps something for the Christmas wishlist. I am sure Euronymous would have appreciated that.

what should be few last words to our friend Jeffrey Eugenides and his The Virgin Suicides book, his debut in 1993. i think it's necessary to consider that when he won the Pulitzer for Middlesex in 2002, maybe have been later, i'm not sure, surely not before 2002... those were 8-9 years in between.

obviously the man knows what he's doing. what i mean is that he didn't start a conveyor line for royalties, writing 1-2 books a year, because imo he's aware of the course our present day world literature should keep. which is the word fiction should sound the marginal, the unthinkable maybe...

his couple of books aren't interpretable in common terms, at least that's how i read them: the saying goes that the phenomena are making the message unspeakable. when it comes to the cleverness to construct a language, if we haven't dropped that course altogether... Jeff is making a language that happens like something that cannot be told.

my reasons for keeping the points here are the weaknesses filming that was supposed to speak to the masses in the States at least. dunno if he was pleased with the script, but the choices of actresses and the below fragmentary storytelling that's been filmed.., i doubt he liked the result, in comparison with the suggestion of the book.

the text, didn't say something like no hope or they knew everything before the f*** was to come, but essentially Jeff deals for something the advocates the tool of words aiming beyond the very common of voices, and for that one needs a tale so extraordinary that it risks acceptance.

let him be the one who was/is in charge of our literature's course, i have no grudge. anyone else outthere, walking in his shoes, is pure hilariousness to me.

my first swedish novel (translated) : handling the undead

fukin awesome !

Yeah, John Ajvide Lindqvist is really a great author; the bleak everyday misery combined with traditional horror is a grip that've plunged him into the higher ranks of Swedish literature fame the past few years (of course a lot to the credit of Let The Right One In or wahtever the movie's called in English). Hopefully his popularity will lead to more companies publishing contemporary Swedish horror literature. Handling the undead is bloody creepy.

i look forward to reading others...that was a very original look at zombies

i wish i could read the original swedish version since it surely looses something in translation

Anyone here read "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline yet? This is a great book for eighties geeks and gamers - lot's of 1980's references to classic "geek" movies, D&D, TRS-80, Commodore 64 users, etc.

Cline is the guy who wrote the story for the movie "Fanboys".