One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad – review

by Irn Bru Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:18 pm

If the lone wolf suicide bomber, the killer-martyr, the high school shooter, the avenger of all the slights and snubs from a hostile world, had a generic face, it might look a bit like Anders Breivik’s: pudgy, piggy-eyed, with thin blond sweaty hair and a sickly smile. Breivik is the perfect example of what the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger once called “the radical loser”, the angry fantasist who wants to bring the world down with him.

Åsne Seierstad has written an exhaustive account of this wretched man’s murder in 2011 of 69 boys and girls in a summer camp for young socialists, and eight adults after a bomb attack in Oslo. It is a ghastly story of family dysfunction, professional and sexual failure, grotesque narcissism and the temptation of apocalyptic delusions.

A brilliant investigative reporter, Seierstad, best known for The Bookseller of Kabul, has based her book entirely on Breivik’s statements and writings, as well as police records and interviews with people involved in the murder spree, as victims or relatives of victims.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/26/one-of-us-the-story-of-anders-breivik-massacre-norway-asne-seierstad-review

That's how the Guardian covered this and The Telegraph was pretty much the same.

Here's how the Daily Mail covered it...

Was Anders Breivik driven to kill 77 people by frustrated sexual feelings for his MOTHER? New book claims she 'sexualised him' when he was four and he once bought her a sex aid as a gift

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2987762/Was-Anders-Breivik-driven-kill-77-people-frustrated-sexual-feelings-MOTHER.html

So looking at a newsstand which paper would you buy? Laughing

by Guest Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:34 pm

They never fail to they, they set the bar low and make sure they go lower each time.

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad – review

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad – review

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