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Julie Myerson "The Guardian" This lusciously deadpan narrative is infused with a wild, anarchic take on the world that is caustically, worryingly truthful.
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Hlynur Björn is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy, unthreatening world is shaken when his mother comes out as a lesbian, and her Spanish girlfriend Lolla moves into their home. 101 Reykjavik is a first-person account of a blackly funny and bizarre love triangle, a dark, comic tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture in Iceland's trendy capital city that pokes fun along the way at such foibles of our culture as CNN weather reports and porn videos.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Amazon description of the book captures this well: dark and comic. Some of the scenes in the book were so funny that my laughter frequently drew too much attention of my fellow early morning commuters. However, the book also has an ever-present dark undertone, and one cannot help feeling slightly disturbed about the night-and-day actions and thoughts of the main character. Although it is difficult to attract sympathy for him, you sometimes can't help him wanting to come out on top.
The description of Reykjavík and its surroundings are excellently portrayed, albeit cynically by the main character. The rougher edges, as well as the beauty, of this wonderful city are captured to a tee by Helgason. These will especially ring true with anyone who has visited Iceland or Reykjavík.
Read the book and watch the film; they are very different and I much preferred the book over the movie as they develop the main character, and some of the peripheral ones, a lot more.
The description of Reykjavík and its surroundings are excellently portrayed, albeit cynically by the main character. The rougher edges, as well as the beauty, of this wonderful city are captured to a tee by Helgason. These will especially ring true with anyone who has visited Iceland or Reykjavík.
Read the book and watch the film; they are very different and I much preferred the book over the movie as they develop the main character, and some of the peripheral ones, a lot more.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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First published in Iceland in 1996, this pre financial crisis novel describes the state of mind of Hlyner Björn, a 30+ year old boy still living at his mother's house, filling his days practically doing nothing, living on welfare, making non stop-comments on the microcosmos around him. Porn in the morning, chatting with a girl in Hungary in the afternoon. Nights are filled with cruising the pubs in down town Reykjavik with boose and sometimes a little ecstasy. A late 20th century Oblomov in a conservative society of hard working people and a cold climate.
His attitude towards women is of course politically unacceptable, rating every woman in sight in Icelandic Kronur (with his price list of all the women mentioned in the novel at the end; please note that the exchange rate has dropped considerably in the last years). But is that not just an attitude of a rather shy person who falls in love with a girl and ends up chewing her toothpaste in stead of kissing her?
If you like to visit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) you for sure will like this novel.
His attitude towards women is of course politically unacceptable, rating every woman in sight in Icelandic Kronur (with his price list of all the women mentioned in the novel at the end; please note that the exchange rate has dropped considerably in the last years). But is that not just an attitude of a rather shy person who falls in love with a girl and ends up chewing her toothpaste in stead of kissing her?
If you like to visit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) you for sure will like this novel.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book on a recent visit to Reykjavik. I enjoyed it to a certain extent but felt that a certain amount of the charm must have been lost in translation. There are some genuinely funny moments, and much of it is very disturbing. Helgason does not inspire unnecessary sympathy in the protagonist. There are many evocative descriptions of the beautiful and desolate city though, and it was an interesting companion to my journey.
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A magnificent book
It is great that the final version of the original book is now published in English. It is so modern and covers issues that are very relevant to European men in the XXI... Read more
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