Ingen tar skit i de lättkränktas land

by David Eberhard

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

237 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Elin Li · Rating 1 out of 5]

Har inte läst någon av hans andra böcker och kommer heller inte göra det efter denna. David skrivstil påminner mest om ett evigt ältande och tyder på en självbild i stil med en elitiskt överlägsenhet. Han refererar till enskilda händelser och vänners samt kollegors anekdoter för att peka på någon sorts representativ tendens i samhället. Hans tro att att content i kvällstidningar skulle representera oss svenskar är kränkande (pun intended). Visst finna det några intressanta stycken, men fyller det en helt bok? Njae.

[Mark Withycombe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Has a point but bla bla bla ... couldn't even finish it. He gives examples which are obviously urban myths - like kids drawing fishfingers instead of fish - and then uses that as evidence for his diatribe.

[Marie · Rating 1 out of 5]

My initial reaction to this book, and for the next hundred pages was bordeom. The author made his point that the Swedish have become over sensitive and don't know how to handle set backs becuase they are too much used to the state taking care of everything. Then he goes on to make that point once every three pages with minor variations on the theme. I struggled on as I need to read in Swedish and was amazed at how much he stated with no backing up from statistics, it is all his point of view from what he sees in his job as a psychiatrist. It seemed to me that he was whining as much as the patients he was complaining about.

Finally in the last third it got interesting, and that was his criticism of psychology and 'ism's such as gay theory. This I would like to see in a debate form as I am sure the other side of the arguement had a lot to say in reply.

So don't buy the book, borrow it and read the first two chapters and the last 10 (really short chapters) and then you cover everything of interest.

[Josefine Persson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had rather high expectations on this book, and it is good, but I think the writer's language is too academic in some chapters. Because of this, I didn't feel so motivated to finish the book. In addition, I didn't learn so much new by reading it. Beforehand, I had read "I trygghetsnarkomanernas land" and "Normal" and I felt like: "Come on, give me something new". However, since the writer wrote this book before the two I mentioned above, the other books probably would have made me feel the same way if I had read this book first. Nevertheless, I like the writer's way of thinking and agree with him at many points. I recommend this book to all Swedish people since I think it is important to read.

[Pia Bergqvist · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a bit disappointed in how the author was trying to get his point across. Lots of repeats and some condescending reasoning about "common sense", quite a subjective measure to use when claiming tp present "facts". He does have som interesting and good points, but they could have presented in maybe 30 pages.

[Marie Bergman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book that everybody should read!

[O* · Rating 5 out of 5]

Otroligt intressant, mycket läsvärd.