Fredrik Strage

A Swedish anthology containing texts by Fredrik Strage, renowned pop-culture journalist with a penchant for constructing smallish sentences filled with trivia. I love that stuff, especially when music is involved.

This is a plethora of interviews, articles and reviews spanning 20 years (or thereabouts). The author has commented every bit of writing and his reflections on how bad his writing used to be is quite profound and nice to read.

Where good: asking interesting questions to the people show more he's interviewing. It's not textbook boring.

Where bad: Strage tends to delve into the extremely odd at times, which upon reading this book in one stretch, can be daunting and in itself quite boring; all the tidbits hit me like "a tsunami of melted lead", to quote the author.

All in all: recommendable. The late part about the black metal scene is indispensable and some of the inner workings of Sweden are truly on display, e.g. where he dissects Tengil, the main antagonist of The Brothers Lionheart. show less

Handling & Tema : 3/5
Karaktärerna: 3/5
Miljöbeskrivning: 3/5
Språk & berättar konst 3/5 :

dokumentär roman om Svensk hip hop. Jag minns tydligt när låten Så klart med Petter exploderade, var det slutet av 90 talet eller kanske 2000 talet. Så klart har svensk hip hop funnits mycket längre men efter så klart lyssnade alla på svensk hip hop.

Mikrofonkåt är en nostalgi tripp för mig och för alla som var unga under den perioden. Under läsningens gång kommer många namn upp på show more artister som jag har glömt bort under årens gång, men även idag välkända namn. exempelvis Leila K , respekt till the Queen show less