Stieg Larsson

[Chinaski]

Is he any good? Or, as Hitchens seems to think, a hack?

[Animavore]

England's manager?

[Clinton Huxley]

Stieg Of The Dump?

[Chinaski]

Wrote the mega-selling crime novel "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Swedish bloke.

[Clinton Huxley]

Wrote the mega-selling crime novel "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Swedish bloke.

Ah, I know who you mean.

Is he any good? Or, as Hitchens seems to think, a hack?

[Chinaski]

I haven't read the book, which is why I'm asking you people. Anyone read it?

Come on, don't fuck about with me, it's too early and I'm in school.

[Clinton Huxley]

Sorry, just in a funny mood today.

Not heard of him nor read the book. Why does The Hitch have a bee in hsi bonnet about him?

[Chinaski]

The Hitch has a bee in his bonnet about everyone.

Eh, apparently it's just bad writing. Since it sold so much, I'm inclined to think likewise, but you never know.

[Clinton Huxley]

The Hitch has a bee in his bonnet about everyone.

Eh, apparently it's just bad writing. Since it sold so much, I'm inclined to think likewise, but you never know.

Aye, bad writing never did JK Rowley, Dan Brown or those Bronze Age goat-herders any harm....

[JimC]

The only Swedish crime writer I have read is Henning Mankell.

And he is good. Dour, but good.

[Fizzle]

Well, I liked the first, quite a lot (Note: I'm a mystery buff, though terribly under-read on the genre). Haven't read the second. I didn't know that Hitchens thought he was a hack, and I don't care anyway. I did enjoy God Is Not Great, at least the writing. Can't remember if I agreed with the guy.

ETA: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2452471-diego That's my goodreads profile. Maybe if you browse through some of my ratings you'll get a idea about what I like and don't like. If it matches up nicely, maybe you'll like the book too.

[Shaker]

I hope the Millennium trilogy is worth reading - I've already got the first two and am waiting for the third to come out in paperback. I got caught up in the hype and bought the first two books, but haven't started them yet so I can't say what the quality of the writing is like (and even then, it's the quality of the translation that might be open to criticism).

[Clinton Huxley]

Got Dragon Tattoo to read on my Kindle and it's terrible. Long-winded, dreary, badly written. Got about a third of the way through and gave up. If ever a book was ferociously in need of a good editor with a red pen, this is it.

[Trolldor]

The problem, my dear Huxley, is that the editor has been through it.

This is what I like to call the "I know" phase.

"I know it's poorly written, but that's what I wanted!"
"I know it's simplistic, but I wanted something I didn't have to think about!"

This is what happens when you teach the lower classes to read.

[Clinton Huxley]

It was so dull I decided to read a book about mushrooms instead. I don't even like mushrooms.