Naïve Super

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  Why did you go to New York??

  The book was brilliant up to the first half. Then, since the trans-oceanic flight it gets really boring. The lists loose their meaning and minimalism and the books get filled with completely futile information (which trees should be cut on a lane, what are the results of looking for bad words in Nor ... (continue)

  The book was brilliant up to the first half. Then, since the trans-oceanic flight it gets really boring. The lists loose their meaning and minimalism and the books get filled with completely futile information (which trees should be cut on a lane, what are the results of looking for bad words in Norwegian on a library catalogue). It annoys me how one can ruin a good book just because he's short of ideas.

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  Suturn said on May 21, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  time.

  Today on the plane i red a norwegian novel called Naive. Super by Erland Loe ( a book translated in english that was given to me as Christmas present by Letizia).
  It's about a 25 years old man who is thinking a lot and doing not much.
  He thinks a lot about time.
  After reading it i th ... (continue)

  Today on the plane i red a norwegian novel called Naive. Super by Erland Loe ( a book translated in english that was given to me as Christmas present by Letizia).
  It's about a 25 years old man who is thinking a lot and doing not much.
  He thinks a lot about time.
  After reading it i thought that today is the 22 of january 2008, and 10 years ago, my friend M. and his brother M
  were or were about to be admitted to UCLA Hospital.
  It's incredible how fast time runs.
  At the same time if we look at ourselves or around us we notice how many changes have been occurred.
  We are pretty much the same, I guess, but the world is not.
  Time has always many scales depending on the perspective.
  Here we are, in the year 2009, but at the same time we are in the 1999 or even a while back, in the 1989.
  I can feel and see and experience as if i am stille there, staying at Jeff's house with W., or eating with B. at the indonesian place, or drinking a cup of coffe with M. at the caffetteria down on westwood.
  But, i am also here, on a plane going back to Florence from Lamezia Terme, reading e-mails on a cracked I-Phone, chatting on Facebook and Skype, 10 years later.
  I guess that the boy in the book is right. He does not correctly understand the concept of time.
  Niether do I.
  I finish quoting from this nice book:
  ``Things happen when you travel, he says. What things, I ask. Perspective, my brother says.''

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  Lagiarre said on Jan 22, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• eBook 208 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1847677126
• ISBN-13: 9781847677129
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Pub date: Dec 01, 2011
• Also available as: Paperback
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani, Norske Bøker, Svenska böcker, Suomenkielisiä kirjoja

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