Peter Høeg
Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction.
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Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction.
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Birth date: May 07, 1957
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This is a pretense: actually 150 pages were dividing me from the end, not 0 like the target "finished" would suggest. I hate doing it, I swear, I can bear nails on the blackboard, titanic non-sense, lethal lethargy or even coma just to finish a book completely. But recently the time has been tyrann...
Recommended prerequisites: 1. Music 101 or higher: Music Appreciation, Baroque, Classical and Romantic Periods. 2. Religion 330, the Christian Mystics. This course requires the student to have previously taken Religion 220, New Testament. 3. Any philosophy course covering the works of Kierk...
I think Høeg is a very talented writer, but this book didn't quite come together for him. Parts of the book, especially when Peter was creeping around the school at night to save his friend August, were tense in a beautifully quiet way and I was moved. Other parts were very abstract discussions on t...
This book intrigues me.This book confuses me.(And I think that's okay.)
Deserves more than 3 stars - very nearly four. I read the book in short bursts but not leaving too long between readings - just right as it is a bit repetitive. More head than heart but intriguing, mystic and ultimately inconclusive - which I like. Another reviewer called it "brittle intellectualism...
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