<![CDATA[And that's just page one!]]>RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspodcast/116436437832351065

And that's just page one!

Anyway. I've now started reading the [quote] 'hit novel' [/] ‘Perfection’ by Vincenzo Latronico.

I'll stick any additional observations I have to this thread (as I suspect there's some, and as I suspect most people are actively not interested in my observations: please don't kick me out of the ).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/9494880c-5f80-4906-ad4d-061d851bf9d4/and-that-s-just-page-oneRSS for NodeTue, 28 Apr 2026 00:30:04 GMTMon, 20 Apr 2026 18:12:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:25:10 GMT]]>@Pepijn
You might enjoy this show on the history of Nordic design:

https://www.dr.dk/drtv/serie/nordisk-design-_-en-kaerlighedshistorie_543339
@europeanspodcast

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/niels/statuses/116442681195941217https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/niels/statuses/116442681195941217Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:25:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:08:45 GMT]]>@Pepijn @europeanspodcast

"In 1780 Anna and Tom would be Dutch expats (Anna’s dad being a Dutch VOC captain) living a safe middle class adventure as small time nutmeg traders in the Saint-Germain neighbourhood of Paris."

See, that book I would like to read. I think it'd probably be impossible to make it not a little bit interesting.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.dk/ap/users/115904213986136232/statuses/116442616643186589https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.dk/ap/users/115904213986136232/statuses/116442616643186589Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:08:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:45:23 GMT]]>Here's my review of Perfection. I'm looking forward to learning what other @europeanspodcast listeners think of the book.

https://io.leslunesdejupiter.eu/42111.html

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116442524787425477https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116442524787425477Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:45:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:44:44 GMT]]>@Pepijn The what now, you say?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/116442522245742181https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/116442522245742181Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:44:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:20:31 GMT]]>@Pepijn Standing by for your thoughts on page 2 🔥

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/europeanspodcast/statuses/116441719187612772https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/europeanspodcast/statuses/116441719187612772Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:20:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:04:15 GMT]]>@Pepijn I'm not and have never been on Instagram and Facebook. Never caught a whiff of this and I'm extremely online.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Infoseepage/statuses/116441655259330275https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Infoseepage/statuses/116441655259330275Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:04:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:03:44 GMT]]>@Pepijn I only found the egg after it was already famous. I was very active on Instagram in 2019.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/sysop408/statuses/116441653245287666https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/sysop408/statuses/116441653245287666Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:03:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:01:06 GMT]]>@Pepijn

Been building internet sites & data since '93-94! never tried Instagram's, tick-tock's or many of the other profitable "control by mad people pass times" many waste their lives on!
The grandchildren worry me & how life, their life is now!

BTW, I even have a 'snatcher button' on my TV remote there I get either muted people telling me all about cheapo cremations, smelly people sniffing laundry (obviously not into gardening?) and dancing and covered in food or mud, 15 mins an hour lost?
Or a different channel!

Bring back pubs & clubs & sports, face to face talking like we used to do?
Possibly that might stop much of the Americanisation of our young?

Those of our young bought up on shoot out, stabbing, killing & mad car destruction games that make so much money & all for their don't care creators & company owners, this has seemingly changed once safe streets to danger zones.

It's time for more coffee.....

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/PabloMartini/statuses/116441406956817085https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/PabloMartini/statuses/116441406956817085Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:01:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:23:26 GMT]]>@Pepijn totally passed me by. Reading the description though, it is a great example of the vapidness of social media activism.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://waag.social/ap/users/115877358980648357/statuses/116441258817648342https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://waag.social/ap/users/115877358980648357/statuses/116441258817648342Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:23:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:16:45 GMT]]>@Pepijn Wikipedia page written by egg photo producer?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/ZenHeathen/statuses/116439109165077673https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/ZenHeathen/statuses/116439109165077673Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:16:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:04:52 GMT]]>@Pepijn Ah, another fellow Europeans' book club enjoyer!
Not gonna lie, I had to google almost all the plants named in the first chapter

@europeanspodcast

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/judgyweevil/statuses/116439062466822372https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/judgyweevil/statuses/116439062466822372Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:04:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:59:29 GMT]]>@Pepijn I was on IG before FB bought it, never heard of this

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gpshewan/statuses/116439041307639402https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gpshewan/statuses/116439041307639402Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:59:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:59:14 GMT]]>@Pepijn Yes, but you made me excavate a very deep and ancient recess of my mind

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/judgyweevil/statuses/116439040282948434https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/judgyweevil/statuses/116439040282948434Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:59:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:54:12 GMT]]>@Pepijn
I recall the egg but i don't think i knew the back story and meaning.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ottawa.place/users/human3500/statuses/116439020501471568https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ottawa.place/users/human3500/statuses/116439020501471568Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:54:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:46:41 GMT]]>Oops. I edited the post (as I wrote 1999 instead of 2019) and wiped the 40ish votes it had (about 70% no) Apologies to the people who had already participated.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438990960444169https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438990960444169Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:46:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:46:31 GMT]]>@Pepijn

Ha. Never heard of this either. Just not cool enough

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/chu/statuses/116438990308430234https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/chu/statuses/116438990308430234Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:46:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:36:07 GMT]]>"An egg became more famous than the pope."

I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.

That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.

Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438949425160750https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438949425160750Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:36:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:19:57 GMT]]>@Pepijn ooph, I recall giving a presentation in high school for Dutch I really struggled with: Dubbelspel by Frank Martinus Arion. It also started very descriptive. I got through the first 34 pages (page number from memory), all of which was someone describing a garden on Curaçao, which flowers were there, which exact shade of green the grass was, the low afternoon sun etc. etc. I gave it a really poor review. The story took ages to begin and the book lost me before that point.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://scicomm.xyz/users/Timo_Micro/statuses/116438885823001057https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://scicomm.xyz/users/Timo_Micro/statuses/116438885823001057Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:19:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:37:03 GMT]]>Uhm. Just noticed (am using an ereader with page numbers off) I'm a third of the way in the book and it still reads as if the author is just setting the scene.
Every sentence is a descriptive one, as if an impersonal external voice is narrating it from the sky. I strongly dislike this type of writing. Admittedly it works though as I'm drawn in the book.

I do not relate as "oh that's me" to the two main protagonists. And that's good as for now I don't like 'm.

No lego cows.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438717161445066https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438717161445066Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:37:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:41:01 GMT]]>oh ffs. This book is about our livingroom. It's The Devil Wears Prada all over again.

If within the next five pages the author mentions a DUPLO cow I will read anything the Europeans podcast will ever recommend.

Edit: and for the sake of completion. We have neither a full copy of the New Yorker nor a rare first edition of a Kraftwerk LP. To compensate though.. A framed front page of the New Yorker (view on the world) and some 'rare' bits of actual Space Shuttle (scrapped after STS-82).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438496785876344https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Pepijn/statuses/116438496785876344Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:41:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to And that's just page one! on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:16:59 GMT]]>btw. Context. I'm both a millennial*, disappointed, an expat (well, immigrant) and own multiple Scandinavian armchairs. So THIS BOOK IS ABOUT ME.

*Early 1980s kid. Wooooot. (don't talk to strangers on the street; ok!; [uses the windows 95 pc to talk to heaven's gate cult members on the internet instead]; do you know if we have "the internet" Pepijn?; Uhm, don't think so, I spend all my time browsing MS Encarta dad!).

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