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This supercut seems pretty lazy and obvious. Like, this is the “summer beach read” of supercuts. Speaking of summer beach reads, can we talk about how Stieg Larsson is a TERRIBLE writer? The Girl Who Played with Fuuuuuuugh.
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YES!!! I just finished Dragon Tattoo. That shit is like a 600 page, weird rapey Mac ad. Why talk about the Macs so much?
Why NOT talk about Macs?
I see your Mac and raise you another Mac.
FUCK!
Can I anybody clear that up for me? Half my friends say “Girl With a Dragon Tattoo” is great, the other half say it’s utter crap. You Monsters, your vote shall determine whether or not I read it next weekend.
It’s not utter crap. That is David Baldacci. It is, however, way too long. With some judicious editing it could have been entertaining.
It’s not the best written work that’s ever been produced, but it’s certainly entertaining. You have to stick with it, though. Things don’t really pick up until the middle.
Absolutely NOTHING happens in the first half of the book. But the second half is page after page of revelations and car crashes and sadistic sex. Also, I guess the story is interesting. But the writing is just….no. He chooses the strangest things to go into detail about (like Apple computers and encryption programs), and the characters are two dimensional. It seems like the movies would be much better.
It’s not good. I read the first one and found that it was terribly boring and the end was completely unsatisfactory. I do admit reading it all the way through, I figured that if everyone loved the book, it must have a great conclusion. Instead I got crap, like a crime tv show season finale.
Here’s what I hate about those books: the heroine purports to be a Swedish Hothead Paisan: hates rape, punishes rapists, revenge fantasy +1. But she is either victimized or protector-ized by every single man in her life. Every single male character has a pages-long inner monologue about how either he wants to protect her from all the scary badness of the world, or how he wants to show her who’s boss. Hothead would not approve.
Also, seconding the list of Ikea furniture. And the fact that she is always going to 7-11 and describing in detail the convenience food she buys. It would be one thing if that were character development (and I think you can develop a character through their convenience food preferences–In-and-Out Burger, Donny?). But here I think it’s because the author is being paid by the word.
The books are overlong and badly (or not at all? out of respect for the dead or something) edited, and not very well written into the bargain. They’re also lazily plotted, with far too much detail about things that don’t matter, and gaping plotholes that the book pretends aren’t there, and huge jumps in genre and style from time to time, and a respect for print journalists, that, at this point in history, borders on the comical. And the second book is kind of a piece of shit.
But. They’re also translated from another language, which adds a level of remove from the original writing, and taken as a whole, I kind of enjoyed them. If I ignore all the stuff I pointed out in the first paragraph.
The movies are actually worse – the leaps in logic and plot are even more glaring because of how much is left out, and nothing that anyone does makes any sense at all if you stop to think about it for a second. And the books are so long that they’re cutting 90% of them to make a 2-hour movie, which isn’t a new problem, but given the structure and pacing of the books, it just doesn’t work. The first one is watchable but badly flawed, and the second is just a mess. Haven’t seen the third yet.
To quote my previous Vgum comment on the subject: “[The characters] are all terrible monster-reflections of real characters, and…the whole plot [is] an alternatingly miserable and mind-numbingly dull concoction of exploitative rape-fantasy and despair.”
It’s a terrible, terrible book.
I can’t even get past page 25. I tried so hard to read it while on vacation (when I had LITERALLY nothing else to do) and I still found myself staring at the tray table on the seat back in front of me because it was more interesting.
It’s really, really bad. It’s kind of laughable in parts, though, so you could read it like the Hunt.
I paid six bucks for my copy, on impulse while buying a collection of better books. It wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever read, but if I’d paid any more for it, I’d have been pretty angry. fnord prefect’s comments on the heroine are pretty accurate, too.
Lisbeth Salander is my girlfriend.
“Walker told me I have AIDS”
I’m assuming these are the top 150 catchphrases BESIDES “You’re not in Kansas anymore” ?
Upp! Nevermind. Dorothy says it around 6:05.
Ok, let’s see. 3 minutes left- will there be a “Donnie, YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!”? Fingers crossed.
Awe. no Coen Bros. love.
i haven’t read them, but i heard those books are about people making coffee all the time. making coffee all day long. i have heard that from more than one person that read them. is it true? is there that much coffee making?
Every time some one walks in the room, who ever was already in that room makes a pot of coffee.
Yes! They are always making coffee and booting up their laptops!
Sounds like my kind of people.
So much coffee. All of the coffee. Or at least most of the coffee.
My favorite part is the extremely long and boring list of IKEA furniture the heroine buys.
Homage to Fight Club? Or just a lazy rip?
I think the reason is Sweden
Yes, that is my favorite (worst) part of that book too! It’s like he picked up an Ikea catalog and just started transcribing items nonstop until he had to take a break to make some coffee (on his Jura coffeemaker, of course)
Gabe’s last week is coming into focus bit by bit…
No, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”? As if!
I tried to warn you about that book, Gabe. This oughta teach ya.
http://videogum.com/268532/close-reading-the-vanity-fair-hollywood-issue-cover-photo/where-are-they-now/#comment-8302811
Ask yourself: “Do I like it when people are drinking way too much aquavit?”
If the answer is yes, then this book will hold you over until my book, “Why Do I Have an Almost Full Bottle of Aquavit in Here? Guess I’ll Drink It”, comes out.
I am completely baffled that the Millennium-series got as big as it did. It’s literally Twilight for grown ups, The main character is the most shamelessly blatant author avatar on this side of Dan Brown. The girl who is presented (and applauded) as a feminist symbol is so clearly a nothing but masturbation material. Nothing happens until two thirds into the book. Also, my native language is pretty close to Swedish. You aren’t missing much by reading the translation.
Case in point: after making it through the first book I made an attempt to read book 2. It starts off in the prologe with yet another sexual assault. Then in chapter 1 the heroine reveals that between books she has gotten enormous breast implants, and she spends some time staring at her new boobs and thinking about how glad she is to have them now. Awesome!
the heroine reveals that between books she has gotten enormous breast implants, and she spends some time staring at her new boobs and thinking about how glad she is to have them now.
I have absolutely read that fanfic.
Haven’t read the book, but saw the movie with my parents. It wasn’t really all the different from watching CSI with them except ass-rape. Can’t wait to see the American version with the folks. Good times.