Wow, that just killed any interest I have in reading Fleming's Bond books. I'll probably read Casino Royale since I already own it, but I definitely won't be reading any more.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Decided to see what this Stieg Larsson stuff is like - so started on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I may even see the movies someday...
^ Looking forward to your opinion, because I've been sort of wondering about an author's take on them. I read them and enjoyed them, mystery not being a genre I peruse with any frequence, but even though I did, it wasn't hard to tell they were written by an amateur author - what with the male protagonist being a very obvious author insert, the plot relying on some extreme coincidences, and so on. I have a suspicion that an author might have a harder time forgiving those flaws because they're such no-no-don't-do-that things to the profession.
Well, only a chapter in, but I wouldn't say it reads as "amateur" the way, say Christopher Pasolini's trilogy does - He was a journalist just like his character, but so were a lot of writers, and at least his actual career means he should have an idea of how to write - but I'm very conscious that it's been translated so that may have an effect as I get into it...
Liking it so far, though.
Liking it so far, though.
FWIW, I read them in the German translation since I can't read Swedish either, and was told by those who can all three languages and compared the translations that it's better and closer to the original than the English translation. So I can't comment on the latter, but the German translation at least didn't have any obvious uh-this-doesn't-feel-right moments on the lingual level.
BTW, another thing: I discovered a while after reading the book that Stockholm (Edit: WTF, I wrote Helsinki here originally for whatever reason) actually has fantastic Google Street View coverage (which came as a bit of a surprise, because at the time - two years back, I think - Street View was still just starting out in continental Europe), and it was fun to look up the places used in the text there. This is more true of the latter two books which are increasingly set there, though. In particular there's a chase sequence where characters cross from "lower <streetname>" to "upper <streetname>" that's a bit hard to understand the geography of until you look at the street and discover that its two lanes are in fact separated by an acclivity with stairs set into it at intervals.
BTW, another thing: I discovered a while after reading the book that Stockholm (Edit: WTF, I wrote Helsinki here originally for whatever reason) actually has fantastic Google Street View coverage (which came as a bit of a surprise, because at the time - two years back, I think - Street View was still just starting out in continental Europe), and it was fun to look up the places used in the text there. This is more true of the latter two books which are increasingly set there, though. In particular there's a chase sequence where characters cross from "lower <streetname>" to "upper <streetname>" that's a bit hard to understand the geography of until you look at the street and discover that its two lanes are in fact separated by an acclivity with stairs set into it at intervals.
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