Maybe it's like Twilight for adults.
Not actually that good, but everyone seems to feel they have to read it.
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It's a translation, isn't it? Anyway, the poor bloke who wrote it died after writing just three books. Or something a bit tragic.
Did he??
Didn't know that. Poor bloke.
Maybe that's partly why they're so popular.
The Eva Cassidy effect.
Just bought Operation Mincemeat by Ben MacIntyre to read when I on on holiday next week.
Haven't read the book but the film's good, worth it just for the revenge the heroine dishes out to a slimy rapist.
Is it like what Uma Thurman did in Kill Bill?
Quote: zooo @ February 12 2011, 10:02 PM GMTIs it like what Uma Thurman did in Kill Bill?
It's grungier in Tattoo and feels more realistic.
Quote: chipolata @ February 12 2011, 10:06 PM GMTIt's grungier in Tattoo and feels more realistic.
Kill Bill's not realistic?! 
Quentin Tarantino in lack of realism shocker!
Quote: DaButt @ February 12 2011, 9:08 PM GMTOver the last few months it seems that every person who sat next to me on a plane was reading that book.
Possibly because American airport bookshops generally have such a poor selection, and they're all shite.
Quote: chipolata @ February 12 2011, 9:58 PM GMTHaven't read the book but the film's good, worth it just for the revenge the heroine dishes out to a slimy rapist.
There's a heroine?
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ February 13 2011, 8:46 AM GMTPossibly because American airport bookshops generally have such a poor selection, and they're all shite.
I don't think many people actually buy books at airports.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 12 2011, 11:48 PM GMTKill Bill's not realistic?!
Which is why I said the Tattoo revenge was grungier and more realistic. 
(Although I feel sure that a Tarantino fan would claim that his dialogue - Royale discussion etc - is more realistic. Hence the reason he felt so fresh when he first burst on the scene in the early nineties)
Quote: chipolata @ February 13 2011, 11:09 AM GMTWhich is why I said the Tattoo revenge was grungier and more realistic.
I don't know what you're rolling your eyes about, dingbat.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ February 6 2011, 5:19 PM GMTJude the Obscure. It just became horrific.
Because we are too menny?
Quote: DaButt @ February 13 2011, 8:48 AM GMTI don't think many people actually buy books at airports.
It's an essential pleasure when en route to countries that have a poor selection of English language books in their few bookstores. Though I guess the advent of the e-reader is changing all this.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ February 12 2011, 8:53 PM GMTFor want of anything I was actually interested in reading, I picked up The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at the airport.
I'm about 150 pages in and I must admit that so far it's easily the dullest, most lazily written book I've ever read.
But it's inexplicably plastered with critics' plaudits.
Is it worth sticking with? At the moment it's making me think that working on my improving my vocabulary for the last 30 years was a huge waste of time.
Did you finish it? Any good? Or is it like The Da Vinci Code (a Hardy Boys mystery dressed up as pretentious glib cobblers for the masses)? If you want to test your vocab, I recommend How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen. Had me reaching for the dictionary about 20 times.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 13 2011, 12:20 PM GMTI don't know what you're rolling your eyes about, dingbat.