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Barmymoo:
Well yes, definitely Blomkvist seemed to have a lot of sex but I think my problem with him sleeping with Salander was that it just seemed unrealistic. He had a relationship with Berger, which was at least believable, then Cecilia seduced him - par for the course in this kind of book I think, since it set up the reader to expect Cecilia to be the villain. But why did he sleep with Lisbeth? What is Larsson's obsession with Salander's sexuality?

JD:
I thought Blomkvist frequent sexings was rather mary sue-ish for a while.

KharBevNor:
Yeah, having read further, and researched Larsson, I don't think it's absurd to suggest that Blomkvist is something of a self-insert. That's fairly common in thrillers and crime fiction though.

Lines:

--- Quote from: Jeans on 16 Apr 2010, 07:03 ---(side mention - does anyone else think it's a little bit odd that a prolific hacker would use an apple laptop? I don't know a lot about hacking, but I've always been under the impression that part of the appeal is that they're easy to use, which is a non-issue if you are in your country's illegal hacker elite, surely?)

--- End quote ---

I was wondering about that, considering the computer they were describing was a Powerbook, I think it was before they got the intel chip (but maybe not). But hacking with a Mac wouldn't be as bad as hacking into a Mac. But as a Mac user, it's not just the simplicity of it, it's also the speed and quality of it. Yes, Macs are notorious for weird crashes, but with PCs, I've had hacks and viruses, whereas I've never had either on a Mac. So maybe that was it or Larsson wanted to pick a well known and rather flashy computer for Salander.

BlahBlah:
It was definitely a page-turner. I read it in one evening, I just couldn't put it down.

I agree with everything said in this thread, the only other thing I found a bit odd was how stereotypical Lisbeth was, with the whole punky-hacker chick image. Isn't there a very similar character in CSI as well? And, yeah, using a mac to do all your hacking is kinda strange. I'd also take issue with the novel's definition of hacker but that's a completely different topic and isn't important.

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