Bookday with the Professor

This Saturday 10 November I declare as Vix Book Day with the sub theme bike hikeing. I have studied the book Hiking in the Rocky Mountains from Lonely Planet Publishing corporation. What could be more relaxing than take a ride on your mountain bike in the nature with some packing on your back and sit down and rest reading a book drinking hot coffee or tea with a sandwich.

Prof. Leif GW Persson is working as a criminology professer at the Police Accademy of Stockholm and is also a famous thriller writer here in Sweden. He is visiting the local bookstore Klackenberg today signing his latest book. He has latele been in a controversy with a female criminal author Läckberg declaring that she write in style/manner of little girls horse books like "Min Häst" (My Horse).

Alexander Bard’s Netocrazy

Netocracy: The new power elite and life after capitalism, is available as an eBook distributed by eLib 2004. The book is written by Alexander Bard and Jan Soderqvist. The main author is the famous and awarded musician Alexander Bard from powerpop bands BWO, Vacuum and Army of Lovers. By the way Alexander and his friends are using laptops on their live performances as laptopartists. Now over to the eBook. Netocrazy describes life in a new class society in a post-capitalistic era. The national state is erodating and new unclear rules are valid. The ways people percepting and understanding the world and democrazy are changeing. A digital revolution is transforming society in a brutal way.

In order to make the right decisions enought relevant information is needed. Netocrazy is a concept developed by the editiors of Wire Magazine used instead of an emerging digital upper class. Power is based upon technology, networking etc. in a creative urban class. The antithesis and negational field of the dicotomy is the consumtariat.

The book is also available in paper format in english from Reuters, London. [trans. N. Smith]
Bard, A. (2004) Netocrazy Stockholm: Pocky/Tranan/eLib [eBook]

What is EU?

What is EU — and what could it be is a book written by Birger Möller on Santerus Publishing. Different themes are presented: what could new countries memberships from Bulgaria and Rumania in 2007 mean, trade conflicts with China, the discussions on a mebership from Turkey in the future. Moller has earlier worked as lecturer at Gothenburg School of Economics.

Nobel Prize in Litterature

English writer Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in Litterature 1:00 PM today in Stockholm, Sweden. She was born in Persia 1919 by brittish parents. Read more on her biograpy on her web
She lived in different of England’s collonies in Africa and she was first published when she was 19. Bibliography could be read here

Amberville

Tim Davys is the author of a new book published today Thuesday 2 October 2007 by Albert Bonnier Publishing Company. The book is the debut for the author writing under pseudonym. € 15,5 is the prize for the book 365 pages in soft binder. I was surprised by two men in black coats and hoods comming out from a van at the Goth Street, Sodermalm/Stockholm giving away an exemplar of the book to each person comming by. A smart marketing trick with a visual street team event directed by the publisher.

The Evil Eye

Bjorn Larsson, born in Jonkoping, now living in Gilleleje in Denmark and working as professor in French at Lund University in Sweden. The author is famous in Germany, Italy and France. ”The Evil Eye” is a thriller about the construction of a new big subway station in Paris. A terrorist organistation is planning to flood the new subway station.

I find the book as we say in swedish — förutsägbar — easy to predict and not an exciting thriller worht several hours of turned off internet, in my opinion. One lead theme, the characerization of evil white studpid nationalists versus hard working, overeducated, missunderstood imigirant underdogs is also a bit to often used and not to say too political correct. The theme with a bored middle aged man with a middle class middle age crisis leaving his dull wife for a younger, effective, office working african-frensh girl gives also not a deeply engageing and interesting background in the storytelling. I give the book a 1,5 Gubbbsnusks (GS) out of 7. As a book aimed to be red when frequenting the WC it’s ok.

“Witty for a Buck …

… smart for a hundred, I recognize that, but now I have a question. The big laughter that liberates, who can afford it? Ho ho, laughing until the train has passed.” (Rönnblom 1983, p. 43)

Who is Anders F. Rönnblom? When I was a young dude one of my best friends had an obscure worn tape recording with some strange rocksinger/-poet singing in a sensitive way with a clear sarcastical and ironical undertone. I instantly liked this music, the voice and lyrics. I listened to the tape repeatedly on and on again at my friends mono tape recorder in his summer house.

The citation above is from one of Anders F’s tunes from 1977. The book 48 tunes (48 låtar) is a personal collection of the best songs by the composer with lyrics, scores, comments and harmonical analysis. The excellent portrait photos reproduced is taken by Mariann Eklund, Studio Matchbox.
Photo above: linked in from www.boogieproduction.se

Litterature Anders F. Rönnblom (1983) 48 låtar Stockholm: Air Scandinavia (128 p.)

Visit Anders F’s myspace web site where the song above is uploaded · Anders F live video from the music steamboat S/S Blidösund