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Border Liners by Peter Høeg

oceanlistener's review against another edition

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5.0

Like "The Quiet Girl" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow", I felt like I never fully understood what was going on in this book, but it was so lovely that I couldn't put it down. A feeling I very rarely have with books! Each page felt fascinating and contemplative. Hoeg has the ability to create mysterious characters like nobody else- a shame I can't read his work in the original Danish.

sabrinahughes's review against another edition

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Opted out at child sexual abuse
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alicemelvin's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

victoriabrohus's review against another edition

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4.0

Denne roman læste jeg til en gymnasieprojekt om autofiktion. Jeg endte dog med at nyde læsningen af den. Jeg er vild med fortælleren, der nu er voksen, men som ser tilbage på sin tid på skolen og hvor aktiv han er i fortællingen, bl.a. når han eksplicit fortæller om, at han skriver bogen. Og det er ekstra interessant, idet at det netop forestiller en selvbiografi, hvor det fortalte-jeg og det fortællende-jeg er den samme person, og der er navneidentitet, men Peter Høeg så siden har afsløret, at han slet ikke har levet det liv og opvokset på den måde. Det er altid skønt når litteratur, og kunst generelt skubber grænserne og "tager folk ved næsen", så de måske næste gang husker at reflektere over det, de læser eller oplever således at vi ikke bare bliver ukritiske individer. For som Roland Barthes sagde: "forfatteren er død". Vi kan ikke kæde fortælleren sammen med forfatteren, eller tillægge denne hensigter om tematikker og budskaber.
Fantastisk bog! Super meget spænding og gode filosofiske passager fra en ung dreng. Grunden til den ikke får fem stjerner, er de mange sider som er viet til at gengive forskellige tidsopfattelser og teorier om tid, hvilket bryder fortællingen på en uhensigtsmæssig måde.

akemi_666's review against another edition

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4.0

slipstream sadness

a phenomenology of discipline, time and grief

tellonstories's review against another edition

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challenging dark inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

innashtakser's review against another edition

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5.0

A brilliant book about the unnatural obsession with linear time within the Western civilization and especially within the educational system.

finsternuss's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I think Peter Høeg excels at writing unusual and interesting child characters that can carry the books they appear in. This one is certainly darker and more challenging than for example "The Elephant Keepers' Children" (my favourite of his works) but I loved it nonetheless.

smokeyshouse's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

A boring yet readable story; one is completely disengaged from the characters- yet for some reason it did not anger me as I was reading it.  Perhaps it was because the story was just barely interesting enough to keep on going...

snoutsiru's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The book was interesting and definitely introduced me to some pretty cool concepts but it just didn’t have the spark in it. I don’t like dystopians in general but this book got recommended to me so I had to read it. I can see the appeal but it just didn’t do it for me
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