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Jørgen Arnor rated Tøyeneffekten: 5 stars
Tøyeneffekten by Bjarte Breiteig
«Jostein og jeg med vår lille gutt, sammen foran billedveggen, skolens hukommelse. Det vi så, var fortellingen om et land …
Jørgen Arnor rated The Road: 5 stars
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the …
Jørgen Arnor rated Liv Signe Navarsete: 4 stars
Liv Signe Navarsete by Jens Kihl
Tidlegare Senterparti-leiar Liv Signe Navarsete opnar opp om store gjennomslag og bitre nederlag. Og om forholdet til Oslo-eliten og møta …
Jørgen Arnor rated The Bell Jar: 4 stars
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the …
Jørgen Arnor rated Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: 5 stars
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …
Jørgen Arnor rated On Writing: 4 stars
On Writing by Stephen King
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class …
Jørgen Arnor rated På randen av Vigeland: 4 stars
På randen av Vigeland by Roy Jacobsen
Roy Jacobsens bejublede, personlige essay om Vigelandsparken, her utgitt som en liten gavebok med fotografier.
Jørgen Arnor rated Mørkemann: 4 stars
Mørkemann by Emil André Erstad
Som ung var Emil André Erstad stereotypien på ein kristenkonservativ mørkemann. I verda hans var det ikkje plass til nyansar. …
Jørgen Arnor rated Sea State: 3 stars
Jørgen Arnor rated Skikk og bruk: 4 stars
Skikk og bruk by Sigrid Sollund
Er det greit å svare kanskje når du blir invitert til fest via Facebook? Må vi ringe tilbake hvis vi …
Jørgen Arnor rated The Fran Lebowitz Reader: 5 stars
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
The Fran Lebowitz Reader is a 1994 collection of comedic essays by writer Fran Lebowitz.The book is a compilation of …
Jørgen Arnor rated What Strange Paradise: 5 stars
Jørgen Arnor rated Animal Farm: 4 stars
Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.
“All animals are …
Jørgen Arnor rated Four Thousand Weeks: 5 stars
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks …