{"id":801,"date":"2010-06-11T06:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-10-10T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T12:18:28","slug":"questions-about-men-who-hate-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"questions about men who hate women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been reading <I>Men Who Hate Women<\/I> (aka <I>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/I>) and I have a few questions.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I need to know the manufacturer of every consumer device in the book?<\/p>\n<p>Why do I need to know so many technical details about Salander's computers? (This part is particularly funny because the only real effect is to make the book seem completely out-of-date, since the \"top of the line\" has moved a lot in the last five years.)<\/p>\n<p>Why is so much being told and so little being shown?  (At times it reminds me of <I>Wonder Boys<\/I>; I expect any minute to come to the dental records and the genealogies of the horses.)<\/p>\n<p>Why is Salander described in so much detail (including her \"slender bones\" and her \"childlike breasts\") but Blomkvist isn't described at all?<\/p>\n<p>Why am I getting so much information about characters I've not been given any reason to care about?<\/p>\n<p>Why is so much geographical detail being given when it would be so much easier to have a map?  (Actually, a family tree would be a good idea, too.)<\/p>\n<p>I was very surprised and pleased when a very traditional Agatha Christie-style mystery suddenly manifested in the middle of the book (a crime happens in an area which is completely cut off from the rest of the world &ndash; so there is, apparently, a finite set of suspects). Will this mystery actually be solved? I hope so, and I even have a few ideas, but it's early yet.<\/p>\n<p>Will Salander and Blomkvist ever meet?  I expect they will (though it will be interesting if they don't).  I even have a premonition they they will become lovers, which will be unfortunate and (duh!) predictable.<\/p>\n<p>In a related question, is Blomkvist going to sleep with every women he meets?<\/p>\n<p>Was the name changed from <I>Men Who Hate Women<\/I> to <I>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/I> because the latter was considered more commercial or because the former gives away too much?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the movie, which comes out on DVD on July 6, since at least some of these problems will have been solved there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F801&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F801&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Men Who Hate Women (aka The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and I have a few questions. Why do I need to know the manufacturer of every consumer device in the book? Why do I need to know so many technical details about Salander&#8217;s computers? 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