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lol Is it trembling?

Jo Nesbø
PART ONE Earth to Earth
Chapter 1 - 8
Harry is(view spoiler)
There appears to be three plots here:
Harry and Ellen in motorcade nov 1999 - (view spoiler)
Sverre Olsen and Johan Krohn Jr. and Herman Groth at trial Oct 1999 - (view spoiler)
Old Chap Oct 1999 - (view spoiler)
PART TWO Genesis
Chapters 9-22
What did Daniel do (view spoiler)
I assumed that Daniel (view spoiler)
Why would Daniel's (view spoiler)
Not surprised that Harry (view spoiler)
I wonder if Harry would ever (view spoiler)
What's the "Old Man" up to? (view spoiler)
PART THREE Uriah
Chapters 23 - 34 Avoiding (view spoiler)
PART FOUR Purgatory
Chapter 35 - 51 Uriah, Daniel, Old Chap, (view spoiler)
Sindre Fauke makes a pretty good (view spoiler)
I should have known Ellen (view spoiler)
I wonder if Helena ever (view spoiler)
PART FIVE Seven Days
Chapter 52 - 58
I was right! (view spoiler)
PART SIX Bathsheba
Chapter 59 - 73
Brent Brandhaug and (view spoiler)
Having a identity Crisis! (view spoiler)
Short chapters. Moves along quickly.
PART SEVEN Black Cloak
Chapter 74 - 84
Sooo, I thought (view spoiler)
PART EIGHT Revelation
Chapter 85 - 93
PART NINE Judgment Day
Chapter 94 -
PART TEN The Resurrection

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I finally had a chance to read your spoilers, Almeta. I had all of the same questions as you are indicating in your spoilers from message 13. I re-read parts of this section over and over and still do not get what happened to the guy with the shovel, nor to the dead guys and what happened. I think this is where we just get to go on with the story and see what happens.
Yes, we even had the same questions about Harry, but I did not comment on his being sober or not. After I read this section, I finally broke down and read the story summary. This is the 2nd buddy read that I sat down to read the book for and had no idea what the story line was supposed to be about. Normally, it does not bother me, but this book started off so different than the other two - don't you think? The Norwegian names kill me too. I cannot remember who they are. (view spoiler)
re - the Old Guy (view spoiler)
re - Harry's boss (view spoiler)
Wow - you are really cranking along! I just cannot go that fast, but I am reading two books too, since I finished the 3rd.

until Chapter 50. OK. I was seriously thinking to tell you I was going to quit reading this book. Not now! I'm on page 276. "Ellen"...back later!


Purgatory (view spoiler)

I was really abour ready to jump ship on this. 250 pages is a lot of "setting the stage". I think the ice has broken now though!



I have been thinking about the story and the language. I know this is translated. I like the way things sound, like car park, and jumper. I smile when they show up. The street names are facinating. The character's names are hard. I spend half of the time trying to figure out how to pronounce them.

It's same translator I had issues with for The Bat. But in this one and in Cockroaches it's fine as it's not my culture.

I don't know, I've re..."
The time thing never was explained although it did show up again. I think it was just something about that creepy Brent guy.

It's same translator I had issues with for The Bat. But in this one and in Cockroaches it's fine as it's not my..."
Now I want to know if the Norwegians call them jumpers or sweaters, hahaha. Is a car park a parking lot, or a drive way?
Amy once pointed out to me that "we park in our drive way, but we drive in a parking lot." She had been reading the road signs as we were driving along and she started spouting all of the oxy-moron things we say like this. She had me laughing so hard I almost drove off of the road.

What? It's a parking lot! A driveway is a driveway. Not to be confused with a parkway which is a highway.

I'm in the middle of the Uriah section.
So history clear up. Norwegians were fighting with the Germans. They were both fighting against the Russians. The Russians I believe were backed by the allies, so the Aussies and Dutch were with them? It does all get a bit confusing, particularly with European countries which were independent, then occupied, then not, then again (sometimes by someone else).
Re: old Norwegian man (view spoiler)
I'm really liking the far right thing at the moment. I mean Austria narrowly missed electing a far right president last week (wtf?!? I mean, it's not like they've had personal experience with that in the last 75 years or anything). Looking at the Aussie and US elections this year, I'm worried. We had a huge protest by the far right here last weekend. I think this book is dealing with issues, even though it's dealing with issues from 15 years ago in Norway, that are just as important. I mean Brevik shows how long this has been brewing in Norway, let alone in other countries.
Harry makes me laugh. He's always pushing buttons. And it amuses me greatly at the moment he's just doing that by doing his job well. And it's annoying everyone, as when he's engaged, he's better than everyone else.

The old guys (view spoiler)
Cherie, you make me laugh with your comments about names. You do remember it's a Norwegian book, right? :P
Just started Bathsheba (view spoiler)


You might need to wait a few days for replies as everyone is mid toppler and possibly not paying attention to other threads. I know not many people have suggested books for the July group reads yet. I had hoped to read the next one of ith you guys but i don't think I'd be ready for it in July. Maybe.
Books mentioned in this topic
The Redbreast (other topics)The Bat (other topics)
Cockroaches (other topics)
Anyone else ready to jump on board?
So how about May 15th?