Escape from boredom

Boka er historien om Setskog fra de eldste tider til i dag…

Quite interesting the first part about the old days, the last part about starting from WW2 up until year 2000…boring.

Got it as a Christmas present, the history of the industry in my hometown Mo i Rana from 1892 up until now. Read more about it here http://www.mip.no/2012/na-er-boka-her-ranaindustrien-i-bilder-en-historie-fra-1892-til-2012/

About Norwegian war sailors sailing for the Norwegian Merchant Fleet during WW2. Had to read it as a follow up of my previous book Skogsmatrosen and as a teaser before starting on part two of Skogsmatrosen, the second book Skytteren.

Fiction, but still very close to reality – a must read for anyone with just a slight portion of interest in the history of WW2.

A Hero of the Sea is a high point in Jon Michelet´s impressive writing career and is nothing less than the great Norwegian sea novel. Written with authority and warmth, this is a gripping, epic tale of the war at sea.

http://www.aschehougagency.no/Books/Fiction/Novels/Michelet-Jon-A-Hero-of-the-Sea

Mark Owen (a pseudonym off course) tells his own story about being part of SEAL and the hunt for Bin Laden. Easy read, did not really enjoy the book, but still interesting to read. Read more about it at N.Y Times

Worth spending time reading, the book about Trond Bolle – “Krigshelten“

Gjennom bruk av en rekke konkrete eksempler, tegner Strømme et sammensatt, men tydelig bilde av det anti-islamske Europa – fra konspirasjonsteoretikerne til demografipanikerne, fra forfatterne Oriana Fallaci til høyreskstreme partier som Vlaams Belang og Front National, i tillegg til en hær av islamkritiske bloggere, med norske Fjordmann som en av de mest markante stemmene. Forfatteren forteller også historien om høyreekstrem terror de siste tiårene, som bomben i Oslo i 1985, brannstiftelser mot asylmottak på 1980 og 1990-tallet, og om andre typer politisk vold fra ekstremhøyre, som de to lasermennene i Sverige.

Cappelen.no

Read more at http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/kultur/litteratur/1.7878474 (both in Norwegian)

Frithjof Jacobsen aka Biff Malibu (or is it the other way around?), former lead singer in Gluecifer “The Kings of Rock”. A hell of a band, no dobut. The book about 101 concerts back in 2004. Not sure if he tried to write the Norwegian version of The Dirt, if so, no success. Not sure what the correct phrase would be, but in Norwegian I would say “perfekt toalettlektyre”.

My latest book: Joseph Goebbels – en biografi, written by the Swedish author Lars Ericson Wolke.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

Recommended reading for everyone, nothing more to say!