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Old 09-11-2010, 11:33 AM   #53
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I wasn't so enamoured by the character of the journalist (what's his name?) as he's quite clearly a wish-fulfilment fantasy of the author's. It was hard to forget. Dialogue felt stilted and unnatural, and at times he goes into lecture mode.
Mikael Blomkvist. Actually in the second and third book he gets downsized few times by macha baby Salander, and by his other partner, the colleague, so the overall picture is not disagreeable. In the third book he behaves really nice, and very decently. Certainly these Swedish guys ...
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