tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post6142666986032450915..comments2024-03-28T15:07:22.673+05:30Comments on Shoot First, Mumble Later: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the bomb blastsGirish Shahanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-55652673011102989272011-07-18T19:56:40.688+05:302011-07-18T19:56:40.688+05:30Brilliantly written, Herr Dalvi. You should blog m...Brilliantly written, Herr Dalvi. You should blog more frequently.Girish Shahanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-8187462633933763212011-07-18T19:32:13.998+05:302011-07-18T19:32:13.998+05:30http://bit.ly/dOXrWn
Here's my big problem wit...http://bit.ly/dOXrWn<br />Here's my big problem with the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson- the bad guys never,ever have a real chance of winning.as any fule knohttp://asanyfuleknow.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-48838044420014609412011-07-17T08:53:36.833+05:302011-07-17T08:53:36.833+05:30Adrian, yes, as you say, young, old, rich and poor...Adrian, yes, as you say, young, old, rich and poor. To which I'll add pixie and Amazon. By the time Blomkvist got it going with the six foot blonde body builder, the whole thing had become a joke. Then again, going by the books, most other males in Sweden appear to be rapists and murderers, so perhaps the women have a very small pool of potential mates to choose from.<br />I found the second book entertaining. There's a lot of action and the mystery of Lisander's past unravels at nice suspenseful pace. But chunks of the first book were tedious, and the bad guys in the third volume are some pathetic pensioners.Girish Shahanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-55236450636424153292011-07-17T04:27:05.112+05:302011-07-17T04:27:05.112+05:30Girish
Glad you werent caught up in that.
I fin...Girish<br /><br />Glad you werent caught up in that. <br /><br />I find the appeal of the Dragon Tattoo books baffling. Blomkvist seems like such a crushing didactic bore I cant imagine any women falling for him, yet they do - all of them, young, old, rich, poor... If I'd been a publisher I would have made the biggest mistake of my life with these books and refused them with the line "Dull wish fulfillment fantasies of a middle aged Swedish journalist". <br /><br />For the rest of my life I would have been the man who turned down a goldmine.adrian mckintyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349942973907386269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-62131037264510167132011-07-15T19:50:07.054+05:302011-07-15T19:50:07.054+05:30Thanks a bunch, VV. I agree about the actress bein...Thanks a bunch, VV. I agree about the actress being better in the film. But then, she's so much more interesting in the books as well, particularly the first one. For the first few chapters of 'Dragon Tattoo' I was wondering how on earth it could have become a worldwide bestseller. The book came alive only in the parts where Lisbeth Salander played a role, the Blomkvist sections were ditchwater dull.Girish Shahanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-21915508348501723872011-07-15T18:54:56.676+05:302011-07-15T18:54:56.676+05:30Great post, Girish. I have been following every on...Great post, Girish. I have been following every one of your posts and havent commented in a while because I had nothing clever to say. Your Mani Kaul obituary and your pragmatic, zen attitude to the blasts got me out of my stupor. And I totally agree with the Dragon Tattoo review- the Swedish Blomkvist actor reminded me, stereotypically, of Ikea furniture. Functional, sure, but hardly seductive. I liked the actress more- she had this sullen, brooding attitude which fit the character. <br />Looking forward to the Fincher-Daniel Craig version. I saw the trailer at the theatre the other day. Even the trailer was classic Fincher editing- it got your adrenalin up even in the most mundane scenes.<br />VVVVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-32028995286789755552011-07-15T09:03:31.917+05:302011-07-15T09:03:31.917+05:30True, Seana. And there's a Pavlovian response ...True, Seana. And there's a Pavlovian response in the media to certain events. Like, after the terrible floods of six years ago, people now panic every time water rises a bit in Bombay, and TV channels put it at the top of their headlines. But Bombay's always flooded once or twice during the monsoon.Girish Shahanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877402074547726173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024210672199702325.post-30118160142293836092011-07-15T07:39:24.678+05:302011-07-15T07:39:24.678+05:30It's very odd which deaths set us off and whic...It's very odd which deaths set us off and which ones don't. In the U.S,it's more traffic deaths often caused by alcohol and gun rampages by unstable people that we seem to have written off. If we hadn't we would have tighter gun control and make the penalty for drunk driving very steep.<br /><br />Terrorist attacks, of course, we still get very upset about. Enough, sometimes, to go to war over. But again, not always. The homegrown kind is treated largely as criminal.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.com