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Building Blocks(By Design, #7)

J.A. Armstrong

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It’s often said that in life everything happens all at one. New York’s new First Family is about...

Lesbian Politics Family Life

Stories of Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare,...

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Bill Watterson

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Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles another segment of the multifarious adventures of this wild...

Peranakan Chinese Home: Art and Culture in Daily Life

Ronald G. Knapp and A. Chester Ong

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Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today...

Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much; Just Right

Niki Brantmark

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Uncover the secrets of the Swedish philosophy of life called Lagom - meaning 'just enough'. At its...

Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Naïve. Super in Books

Aug 27, 2017

Naïve. Super

Erlend Loe | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry

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Can't empathise with main character, seems a bit pointless

This is one of those random quirky Scandinavian books that leaves you scratching your head, asking what was the real point of it. The book called "Super naive" pretty much sums up the main character, a 25-year-old university dropout who is contemplating the meaning of life. He seems to have some difficulty grasping his existence and time, coping by playing ball and using a hammering toy to stay calm. I felt his sense of privilege made him slightly irritating, jetsetting, buying cars on a whim - you can't really sympathise with his plight, he just seems like a layabout. But I think he had some underlying mental health issue that was never explored. There could be a translation issue causing it to lose its original tone.