Books & Films

[vegarin]

Nothing is quite like lounging around the balcony on a breezy, generally perfect summer afternoon, listening to Iron & Wine and drinking iced coffee.  Samuel Beam's voice is impossible to encapsulate with words.  I'm usually adverse to beards, but I will make an exception for him, just for his voice alone.

I'm behind on Inception fic reading again

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[crisco____disco]

I have (well not actually read but listened to on audiobook). I went through all three last fall and winter and I keep going back to the audiobooks periodically. The narrator is a kind of comfort voice to me.

Agree with you 100% regarding Blomkvist. He feels a bit like a male fantasy wet dream (sort of along the lines of Dan Brown's Dr. Langdon). You can't help but feel that there's a lot of projection and wishful thinking taking place on the part of the author. A nerdy male, not really traditionally handsome or athletic, who still manages to get all the ladies. Also it was hard for me to believe that there was ever a moment that Lisbeth was ever truly in danger, she was always too resourceful, one step ahead of everybody. And while there is a mean part of me that could write off the entire trilogy as a very elaborate rescue fantasy (imaging an alternate title, not so much "men who hate women" but "men who rescue women")but like you I loved the atmosphere, the whole mood of the story, especially in the first book. Also I really liked Larsson's descriptions of food, particularly grocery lists. Like you said, it was fun.

PS: http://www.imdb.com/news/ni3490101/

I'm actually liking this news. Thank goodness it's not Brad Pitt. I have an irrational hate for Brad Pitt. Plus I really liked the casting in the Swedish movies.

[vegarin]

Lisbeth is a superwoman. I liked the idea of her, but she was definitely more of a conceit than a real, breathing character. And yeah, if she didn't need physical rescuing, she definitely needed some emotional rescues, didn't she?

Oh, such a big yes on Blomkvist and the male-fantasy thing. It irked me that the character basically shares the same occupation as Stieg Larsson and in the same age group and similar histories, etc. It may as well just be Larsson. Still, it seems like he wrote the novels more as a hobby than anything else, and he did a great job with some of the mystery aspects of the first book (love the boxed-in crime scene setup in the first book, with the island; such a great throwback to early mysteries) and made me want to visit Stockholm so badly with his descriptions, so I can forgive him for other transgressions.

Dan Brown, on the other hand, is horrid. No clue what Larsson's writing is like in his original language, but Dan Brown's writing is worse than a mediocre young adult novels and the storyline and the characters...just ugh. I will not get started on this.

I remember you have a thing for Daniel Craig, so you must be happy about this, either way, :P Wonder who they're going to go with for Lisbeth. Noomi Rapace is awesome, but she wasn't exactly how I pictured Lisbeth, at least looks-wise? I imagined her younger, slightly more frail-y, at least someone who may look like she could be taken advantage of but kicks so much ass nonetheless. Rapace literally looks like she will kick your ass in any given situation without breaking a sweat.