The weakened book club took Juliet (a classic sailing boat) into the archipelago of Stockholm and anchored at the island Lökholmen close to Sandhamn. Ola brought three copies of his favourite short story by Edgar Allan Poe, "Ligeia" (1838), which was read before the the actual book club meeting took place in the old lighthouse facing the open water towards our eastern neighbours the finns. It was a solemn occasion.
Book 10 - "Gentlemen" by Klas Östergren (1980)
Anders 4 - An impressive journey - linguisticaly as well as narratively.
Ola 4 - A book that is what "Röda Rummet" set out to be...
Krister 6 - It doesn't get any better than this, in swedish.
Average rating 4,66
Book 11 - "Gangsters" by Klas Östergren (2005)
Anders 4 - Brilliant the first 140 pages, but then it lost pace.
Ola 5 - An utterly sparkling first third, that elevates both books. Maturation.
Krister 4 - Good start, but does not hold.
Average rating 4,33
"I saw not then what I now clearly perceive, that the acquisitions of Ligeia were gigantic, were astounding; yet I was sufficiently aware of her infinite supremacy to resign myself, with a child-like confidence, to her guidance through the chaotic world of metaphysical investigation at which I was most busily occupied during the earlier years of our marriage. With how vast a triumph - with how vivid a delight - with how much of all that is ethereal in hope - did I feel, as she bent over me in studies but little sought - but less known - that delicious vista by slow degrees expanding before me, down whose long, gorgeous, and all untrodden path, I might at length pass onward to the goal of a wisdom too devinely precious not to be forbidden!"
Edgar Allan Poe, "Ligeia" (1838)
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