Normally my reading a book does not spell trouble. Lately however I get these ideas into my head and they become obsessive. I actually had a mini breakdown at dinner and cried the other night because a endearing character from a series I was reading had died. Mind you it was in the first book and now I was on book 11. This however is not the point! So I put aside my series as I was starting to lack the sanity to differentiate real from fake and went onto another book I had downloaded to the kindle and forgotten about. What did I pick?? Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. My first statement here is...I hope that my analysis is true of the other and not the translator, however I am pretty sure they don't give translators free reign so I feel safe in my off base assumptions. Ok my first thought after finishing this book "Holy shit this guy must be crazy" So I immediately googled him and found out he was dead from a heart attack. Hmmm I thought you sure it wasn't from an angry mob of Swedish woman??? Ok so he's dead but my thought is still this same this guy could not have been right in the mind. I know Europeans have a far healthier view on sex than us uptight Americans but I am pretty sure that doesn't include rape and mutilation. Ok so here are a list of observations that I made that lead me to believe this guy probably had some deep dark secrets of his own.
1. All the woman were whores...no seriously every woman he depicted was a promiscuous slut for lack of a better term.
2. The male lead had woman throwing themselves at him..so much so that his bests friends husband of 20 years had no problem that they sleep together on a regular basis. Seriously?? This guy had some ego!
3. The sick depraved guy in the book's live in girlfriend has the same name as Stieg's Live in girlfriend...hmmm interesting.
4. He put more time and effort into the description of mutilation than he did characters. I have no idea what anyone aside from Salander looks like, she is the only character he thought to describe and really only because the attraction to her by men is somewhat disturbing giving that he describes her to look like 15.
5. The amount of characters that hate woman.
Anyway I could go on and pull out imagery and all that but it's just twisted. So what do I do. I start reading the next one. "The Girl who Played with Fire" apparently I think it will give me insight into the mind of a sociopath....anyway I am already disturbed and I have read less than 10% of the book. Salander has already slept with a 16 year old boy, and Harriet Vanger's narrative describing bvlomqist as the 4th man she ever had sex with after her .....father, brother, and husband...WTF?? I think I can honestly say that usually women who have been raped don't equate that act with sex or making love or any other twist this guy could have put on it.
The thing is I am not sure who is more disturbed..him for writing it or me for continuing to read this disturbing shit....and you know what the structure and flow of the books kind of suck...just sayin.
