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What books are you reading?
superboyac:
Ha! I just KNEW you had read that book. Seriously, I was like 99.5% sure.
rjbull:
A review in the New Yorker
Man of Mystery
Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels?
by Joan Acocella January 10, 2011
Very critical initially* (or should I say superficially? - critical of the writing & translation) but also a very interesting indepth analysis
-tomos (January 07, 2011, 10:57 AM)
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Hmmm... I'm glad I'm just a reader, not a critic!
For another up-to-the-minute, computers and Internet included (if not to Salander's level) gripping and frequently violent series, try Michael Marshall's trilogy The Straw Men, The Lonley Dead (UK title) / The Upright Man (US title), and Blood of Angels.
Current book in progress: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.
tomos:
A review in the New Yorker
Man of Mystery
Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels?
by Joan Acocella January 10, 2011
Very critical initially* (or should I say superficially? - critical of the writing & translation) but also a very interesting indepth analysis
-tomos (January 07, 2011, 10:57 AM)
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Hmmm... I'm glad I'm just a reader, not a critic!
-rjbull (January 07, 2011, 05:37 PM)
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Yeah, I didnt mean to post it to knock his books - it was the psychological stuff I found interesting.
kyrathaba:
I'm 70% of the way through the first of his books. Pretty good reading, I must say.
rjbull:
Hmmm... I'm glad I'm just a reader, not a critic!
-rjbull (January 07, 2011, 05:37 PM)
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Yeah, I didnt mean to post it to knock his books - it was the psychological stuff I found interesting.
-tomos (January 08, 2011, 03:30 AM)
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I didn't think you did :) The critic seems to get paid to pull things apart and put people down. One of the first things she said was that Larsson was left-wing. I wonder if that coloured her American view too strongly and she went into knee-jerk attack mode. Rather the same as the uneasiness the establishment had at publishing Michael de Larrabeiti's Borribles trilolgy with its viciously anti-establishment message, see e.g. his obituary in The Independent. Wikipedia page here.
Having said that, I wondered about various aspects of Larsson's books (the first two, haven't read the third yet). I can't quite work out just why they're so compulsively readable, but they certainly are.
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