16th of february Patos went to the Big Apple - a trip that had been planned while John was still with us - in order to celebrate "Paul Auster Day" 21st of february, a day that turned out not to be annually recurring... On the way over Ola caught a cold so he got the single-bed in the room we stayed in at Hotel 17 (where Woody Allen filmed his movie "Manhattan Murder Mystery") while Anders and Krister bundled up in the slightly wider twin-bed. It was a severe cold, as Ola spent an entire day sitting in the same chair in Café Think with a book in his hand without managing to read a single sentence, while Anders were working and Krister watched hockey. Anders kept working next day and the Auster-duo took a stroll across Brooklyn Bridge. Ola got better and all three attended a live performance by Richard Buckner in Union Hall - a place that turned out to not be situated at Union Square (close to where we presided) but in Brooklyn. Breakfast was often digested at Silver Spurs and one fine evening we had our Patos meeting in the revolving rooftop restaurant "The View" (in the hotel New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square) where we had some exquisite drinks while discussing literature. We had dinner at a hole-in-the-wall kebab place just outside before we entered the hotel - in order to be able to focus our hard earned cash where most needed... Patos loves "Barnes & Noble" in Union Square where we spent many hours - we missed an appearance by Paul Auster by only a few days but we met an x-girlfriend of Arthur Nersesian (the author of "The Fuck-Up")!? As Ola got better Anders and Krister fell ill - unsynchronized indisposition in Patos...21st of february we travelled for 33 hours (New York - Stockholm - Zermatt) and on the 25th of february at least six bottles of Laphroaig was taken into the mouth and swallowed in North Wall.
We will forever remember this journey as Patos Sick Trip.
Book 15 - "The Golden Compass" (His Dark Materials I/III) by Phillip Pullman (1995)
Anders 2 - A fantasybook ought to include sudden death and should not have a twelve year old as the main character. The main villain seems porny and I would like to meet her - she should have been the main character...
Ola 2 - The first book in this trilogy is pretty much an introduction, and it is in the second and third book that the story moves from a children's book to a book for grownups filled with teenage adventure, doors to other worlds, intrigues, war and politics - and religion gets its share.
Krister 1 - Piss. I have passed the stage of reading children's books a long time ago.
Average rating 1,66
Book 16 - "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk (2002)
Anders 4 - Upon reading the first 50 pages I thought I had found myself a new Tom Robbins, but then it never really took off - the author whet the appetite though...
Ola 4 - An abundance of ideas and a way of writing that makes you wonder where it all is heading. A lot of it fascinates but for some reason it never truly touch me to the core, and a strange tinge of plastic refuses to part with my taste buds.
Krister 4 - A hell of a pleasant book, where you never know how it will end while reading - and you still do not know.
Book 17 - "En Tid För Allt" (A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven) by Karl Ove Knausgård (2004)
Anders 5 - Imagine Bellori's ideas gaining credence and Newton's ideas sinking into oblivion - we would have lived in a different world.
Ola 5 - It is not the divine that is immutable and the human that is variable - it is quite the reverse.
Krister 5 - God is dead. Long live Bellori.
Average rating 5
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