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servemethesky's review against another edition
emotional
informative
fast-paced
3.5
This audiobook was a quick and interesting listen. I appreciated hearing a disabled person's perspective. It was fascinating to hear how his diagnosis at age 3 with spinal muscular atrophy proved incorrect, but he never received a new diagnosis.
I didn't love how pretentious this book felt. So many Foucault quotes! The existentialism and philosophical quotes weren't exactly what I was looking for when I picked this book up.
I didn't love how pretentious this book felt. So many Foucault quotes! The existentialism and philosophical quotes weren't exactly what I was looking for when I picked this book up.
raeraeburr's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
pecsenye's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
This is exactly the memoir a professor of linguistics, Fulbright scholar, Norwegian stoic would write. It's essentially about Grue's struggle to get out of his head and into a body that has been limited by the way we've arranged our physical spaces to not accommodate people who use wheelchairs. Grue references Jorge Luis Borges and Michel Foucault throughout, so that's the level we're taking about. I found it delightful. Let's hope he writes another memoir once his son is an adult.
ainsleymckee's review against another edition
Did not care to keep going; there wasn’t a hook/purpose for me to return to. Writing/tone felt distant or dispassionate, maybe because the author-translator-narrator chain is just too long for memoir?
dinasamimi's review
3.0
The writing is really lovely at a sentence level but this memoir goes nowhere. Maybe Grue is a big star in Norway and that is context enough for the target reader, whoever that is, but I definitely felt kept at a distance. Grue does zero grappling with his privilege and intersectionality in the greater disability world. I did not appreciate the heavy use of quotes as a sort of narrative arc? He needs quite a bit more growth and self-exploration in order to write a fully fleshed memoir, which this is not.
ingabbjarna's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
ipetrine's review against another edition
5.0
Jeg er overrasket over hvor godt jeg likte Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres. Jan Grue leser selv lydboken, og det var nok med på å løfte hele leseopplevelsen. Sitatene, rytmen, stilen - alt kommer til sin fulle rett i denne lydboken, som tilgjengeliggjør det utilgjengelige ved teksten. Jeg er faktisk ikke sikker på om jeg hadde kommet like godt inn i teksten dersom jeg hadde lest den på papir eller skjerm, noe jeg ser flere har slitt med. Grues formidlingsevne er fabelaktig, og den kler den nakne og selvransakende historien han forteller. Jeg så noen andre bruke uttrykket "horisontutvidende" om denne boken, og det er så treffende at jeg vil låne det.
Lurer du på hvilken lydbok du skal avslutte 2019 med, har du altså en glødende anbefaling her.
Lurer du på hvilken lydbok du skal avslutte 2019 med, har du altså en glødende anbefaling her.
kristinvdt's review against another edition
5.0
Medrivende og lettlest men med masse dybde og tyngde. Imponerende blanding av egen historie og filosofisk/akademisk tilnærming til det å leve med et handicap. Denne boka sitter lenge i, og jeg leser den gjerne igjen, for her er det mer å hente.
"Så hender det at man ikke tar seg for. Jeg var et barn som ikke klarte det, som falt hele tiden. En kort stund hadde jeg en blå hjelm i skumplast, men ikke lenge, det finnes verre ting enn å slå hodet, og en av disse er å være et barn som alltid går med en hjelm på hodet."
"Så hender det at man ikke tar seg for. Jeg var et barn som ikke klarte det, som falt hele tiden. En kort stund hadde jeg en blå hjelm i skumplast, men ikke lenge, det finnes verre ting enn å slå hodet, og en av disse er å være et barn som alltid går med en hjelm på hodet."