Stockholm A Novel edition by Kian Kaul Literature Fiction eBooks
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A struggling and not-so-young advertising creative, Anakin Carver meets Natasha von Ottmann, an up and coming actress working on his new campaign, and accidentally makes her famous. Now romantically involved with a celebrity, Carver finds himself connected into the landscape of popular media and entertainment; a labyrinth of mistrust, petty politics and desperate grasps for power.
"Everything Is True. Nothing Is Permitted."
In a time of unrest and social change, Anakin Carver may become one of the most influential figures never known. As civilization moves toward both utopia and ruin, all it may need is a subtle push in either direction.
Written in an exciting new format of thirteen "episodes", rather than traditional chapters, STOCKHOLM is designed to be enjoyed like a full season of a cable television series. Each episode satirizes our culture's obsessions with social connection, class conflict, the evolving role of celebrity, the reaches of government and how one man's choices can either help enlighten or destroy our way of life.
Stockholm A Novel edition by Kian Kaul Literature Fiction eBooks
Stockholm is both fascinating and frustrating. The premise is compelling- it examines the possible outcome of our social media obsession interweaving with governmental control taken to its extreme. The implications of the paragon and renegade point system were particularly terrifying! I'm sure that within this parallel world,a number of books I've downloaded would land me in hot water as an anti-socialist. This world is a horrifyingly plausible possibility for us all. Stockholm is well worth reading!On to the frustrating- Anakin is a seemingly emotionless cipher. While much description is given to his self-conscious physical posturing and cataloging of micro-expressions, (which is brilliant, by the way, in illustrating how people basically always on camera would relate to one another) nothing is said of what Anakin feels. By the end of the book, I still had no idea whether he and Natasha loved each other or simply existed within the same space. Some emotion would be helpful to allow the reader to empathize with the main characters.
There are also many instances where location shifts without segue, which is jarring. An example that come to mind is that Anakin and Natasha are at a party, then suddenly in a car headed home with no indication of this transition. This happens frequently. For continuity in a non-visual format, these transitions need to be stated.
There is a revolution building throughout the story, but the main characters seem completely unaffected and uninterested, so the reader gets the barest hint of what is an exciting movement going on around them. I would have loved to see a secondary character involved in the revolution woven into the plot. It is a missed opportunity for us to learn more about this political underground.
Still, Stockholm is obviously written by a sharply intelligent mind. There are many wonderfully constructed scenes and some of the writing is just breathtaking. One of my favorite lines, which was an observation of little importance to the main character, but is a telling indication of the writer's wit was "She was slightly taller and wore her lack of confidence with a polyester cardigan." Fantastic.
Overall, yes it has its frustrating moments. Read it anyway; it's worth it.
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Stockholm A Novel edition by Kian Kaul Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Recently laid off or fired from a career in advertising or filmmaking, the main character of the novel "Stockholm" starts off as kind of a jerk.
The first two parts reminded me of a sitcom you'd see on FX or one of the British shows where people insult each other and the friends
who live together don't really get a long, but it's funny because you can see how they really do like each other but there's personality clashes.
Soon, the story transitions away from what I think was the Bay Area and back down to Los Angeles where "Anakin Carver", the main character,
moves back to resume his life after industry strikes are over, or employment picks up. There's a lot of talk early on about Camp San Andreas, a place that starts off mysterious enough and turns out to be sort of a cross between a government labor camp and a resort style apartment complex. Young people are excited to move there and start a new life, but not Anakin Carver who seems to want material things and thinks he's above the lifestyle and society changes that are happening around him.
Once he gets back to Los Angeles the trouble really starts when he meets an actress for commercials named Natasha and he immediately likes
her and shoots a commercial with her that he's not supposed to, I'm not sure why he wouldn't be, but it's a problem for him at work because it becomes really popular on the internet and I guess his bosses at the advertising agency are angry about it. Meanwhile he's trying to find a way to see this Natasha girl again and it turns out she's involved with his boss or maybe they have a history together. Anyway, it's not long before all the empoyees are competing to keep their jobs in a reality show-style competition. This part was probably the funniest for me because it reminded me of The Office but in a more surreal way. The people who Anakin Carver works with are weird but in different ways than you'd expect and they think he's just as weird so it's fun to see the personality quirks.
The rest of the story would fall into spoiler category, so I will sum up my thoughts about the "real" story as it developed. I definitely didn't know what to expect from the story of "Stockholm" from one chapter to the next, although sometimes the main character's narration got too detailed and spent a lot of time examining things and I wished it would get to the story more, but also some of the things he says are hilarious and insightful. If you like writing that just gets "to it" you maybe be frustrated with this book at times, but if you like first-person narration from slightly odd people (like in Brett Easton-Ellis books) you will probably appreciate this. Anakin Carver and Natasha (can't remember how to spell her last name) get involved in more work-related trouble that seems to get more political and intriguing as the story goes on. The action also moves to New York and that's where more of the political type stuff comes in and you can feel how society is starting to fall apart in some ways from the outside and some ways from the inside with the sort of super-facebook social networking stuff where people start to get control over your decisions and it causes a lot of trouble for Anakin Carver.
I didn't understand the ending at first, but went back and reread it and it made sense, so I think I was just going too fast the first time. Also I don't work in television or film so I don't know a lot of the terms and details about the sort of things they're talking about sometimes but overall you don't have to know all that stuff, since it's really about one person's struggle with political forces and how he deals with the way the world is changing and how he changes too.
"Stockholm" isn't perfect and it was difficult in parts, especially some of the detail and sometimes it's hard to know what Anakin Carver is thinking but maybe that was the author's point? It's very different from the usual dystopian stories I like to read, it's really a dark comedy more than an adventure or romance story like "Hunger Games". But it does deal with a lot of the issues from "1984" but in a more realistic way that has to do with what is happening in society now, but it takes place in television and the entertainment industry. It's a strange book but I'm glad I read it even if it's kind of longer than I thought it would be. I'm giving it four stars because the characters are interesting, some of the Anakin Carver narration is funny and very insightful to human nature and because I never read a story that's dystopian and set in the regular world. I can't give it five stars because it's not perfect and could have been shorter and,or less cold from a personal point of view. Check it out if you like Brett Easton Ellis crossed with "1984" style storylines.
Stockholm is both fascinating and frustrating. The premise is compelling- it examines the possible outcome of our social media obsession interweaving with governmental control taken to its extreme. The implications of the paragon and renegade point system were particularly terrifying! I'm sure that within this parallel world,a number of books I've downloaded would land me in hot water as an anti-socialist. This world is a horrifyingly plausible possibility for us all. Stockholm is well worth reading!
On to the frustrating- Anakin is a seemingly emotionless cipher. While much description is given to his self-conscious physical posturing and cataloging of micro-expressions, (which is brilliant, by the way, in illustrating how people basically always on camera would relate to one another) nothing is said of what Anakin feels. By the end of the book, I still had no idea whether he and Natasha loved each other or simply existed within the same space. Some emotion would be helpful to allow the reader to empathize with the main characters.
There are also many instances where location shifts without segue, which is jarring. An example that come to mind is that Anakin and Natasha are at a party, then suddenly in a car headed home with no indication of this transition. This happens frequently. For continuity in a non-visual format, these transitions need to be stated.
There is a revolution building throughout the story, but the main characters seem completely unaffected and uninterested, so the reader gets the barest hint of what is an exciting movement going on around them. I would have loved to see a secondary character involved in the revolution woven into the plot. It is a missed opportunity for us to learn more about this political underground.
Still, Stockholm is obviously written by a sharply intelligent mind. There are many wonderfully constructed scenes and some of the writing is just breathtaking. One of my favorite lines, which was an observation of little importance to the main character, but is a telling indication of the writer's wit was "She was slightly taller and wore her lack of confidence with a polyester cardigan." Fantastic.
Overall, yes it has its frustrating moments. Read it anyway; it's worth it.
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