Personally, I found Anxious People to be very accurate, not only as a study of humans but also as a study of Swedes. He manages to do this without being annoying or too obvious, which only adds to the page-turning nature of his books. Why is there a half-naked man wearing only a rabbit’s head locked in the bathroom? Why did the bank robber request fireworks instead of ransom? Where is the bank robber now, and why did they leave behind a gallon of fake blood and a children’s drawing? These are the sorts of funny and page-turning questions that Anxious People introduces and, eventually, answers.īackman has a gift for teasing his readers: he’ll reveal a small tidbit of information or piece of the story, only to abruptly abandon it a few sentences later, leaving the reader to wonder about it for at least a few chapters. Crazy circumstances and a confounding mystery are what draw you into Anxious People, but the characters are what convince you to keep reading. But it only takes a few chapters to understand that the bank robbery and following hostage-crisis are far less interesting than the bank robber and hostages themselves. On the surface, Anxious People is about a bank robbery.
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