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Originally Posted by HarryT
Three separate people in this thread now have referred to Larsson's trilogy as the "Millenium" trilogy. It's not really called that, is it, surely?
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I read Dragon Tattoo, and while I finished it, I was annoyed with it for so many reasons I can hardly remember them now; I was shocked at the fuss over it. I posted something on the DorothyL list (I was active on it at the time), saying "WT...?" and a low-star review, for which of course I received snarky emails, because I'd had the nerve to NOT like it. I disliked the silliness of the coincidences and physical similarities; the avatar for the author being jumped by everything female {sigh}, the further silliness of all the comings and no goings in a small town with basically one road going unnoticed, and other aspects. I thought the creation of the other protag, Lisbeth Salander, was inspired. I thought the big "gotcha" against the (evil, of course) capitalist was incomprehensible and poorly-thought out. Some of this could all be translation, but I doubt major plot holes/points were.
LOTR: Let's face it. TTT is a slog. It is. Basically, Frodo and Samwise trudge. And trudge. And, wait! Do more trudging. Then something happens. then back to trudging. Occasionally, something happens elsewhere. Oh, wait: back to the trudging. When I say it's a slog, it's a slog in more ways than one. I did of course read them all, (it was practically required reading in the 60's), but Twin Towers was not my fave, by a long shot. (Only slightly less annoying than the hundred or so pages wasted on Tom Bombadil, in Fellowship.)
Crime and Punishment: Finished it. Oish. Thanks, but....felt more or less
whiny to me. I know, I know...what can I say.
Have never tried 50Shades. Not my cuppa, from what I understand. Haven't tried Rowling's other novels. I read the HP books and,
heresy: for once, I thought the movies were, in many ways, BETTER. Certainly I thought the first movie was far superior to the first book (of course, it had the advantage of being able to borrow from the later books in terms of world-building). So, while I think she has an amazing imagination, I don't truly think that Rowling is an amazing
writer, per se. That doesn't inspire me to buy her adult fiction.
On Joyce: I go back and forth in my thinking about him. The literati would have us treat him as a god. I find it hard to pick up Ulysses, mostly because he gloated about how long we'd be arguing about the work. I've been through it, because I felt I must, but...as I said, I'm ambivalent about it. And before everyone leaps to tell me how brilliant it is, yes, I've read those arguments, too, thanks.
I pretty much finish everything I start, but I have become better about skimming a first chapter to see IF it is something I really want to pick up. ;-) Life is short!
Hitch