Just finished Tervo's 'Koljatti'. Vanhanen says the book is "an honour". I think he has no idea what he's talking about.
But very much worth reading; nice structure (similar to 'The Collector' by John Fowles, also similarities in themes) and very well written. It's like Six Feet Under "is this really happening or is this one of those imaginary realities?" style, except that whereas 6FU is most of the time absurd and funny, 'Koljatti' is most of the time absurd and gross... apart from the times when the absurdity is just so out there, regardless of being simultaneously very gross, then you can do nothing else but laugh.
Read it, if only for general knowledge since this is going to be in the headlines and talked about for quite a long time.
Post scriptum: I wonder how much -in percentage- Lahnanen has in common with Vanhanen, factually?
4 kommenttia
millikan
6.9.2009 12:51
While I am quite open-minded about many things, I do make sweeping refusals to read any book publisized on front page of tabloids...you are bigger person than I am (or possibly a voyeurist :) )
Splenetic
6.9.2009 14:12
A bigger person in a physical way, quite possibly but a voyerist... well, at least not consciously.
Actually, the books that get the tabloids' attention also get the attention of most Finns and thus people talk about them. In my social state, I need to know these things, too, since talking about Toni Morrison's latest or the last Nobel winner in literature is quite useless (okay, that sounds a bit elitistic, I know but it does have a grain of truth in it...). So I need to have a broad variety of books to read: not just the ones I read for my own interest but also those that have a heightened interest of the "general public". QED, tabloid books have to be read (like Hännikäinen's 'Ilman' which sucked, 'Pääministerin morsian' because of the final court ruling, and now Tervo).
Rokkihomo
7.9.2009 00:13
Elitistic = grain
Splenetic
7.9.2009 19:29
Whatever ;)