recordedbookreview.com » Larson http://recordedbookreview.com audio qua audio Sat, 12 May 2012 20:14:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larson read by Simon Vance http://recordedbookreview.com/2009/09/14/the-girl-who-played-with-fire-by-steig-larson-read-by-simon-vance/ http://recordedbookreview.com/2009/09/14/the-girl-who-played-with-fire-by-steig-larson-read-by-simon-vance/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:47:19 +0000 editor http://recordedbookreview.com/?p=386 Quiet, patient, relentless intelligence spills over the pages of this story about a girl geek, a journalist, a news magazine devoted to the critique of corrupt Swedish institutions, and an odd assemblage of  Stockholm’s thugs, bureaucrats, intellectuals, and cops.   None are verbose. Men and women think. Thinking happens without talk, without sounds, without annunciation. It is sometimes   signaled  by cigarettes. Sometimes by a  walk.   Much goes unsaid, and unshared.

All the good guys use Macs. Some of them smoke.  The geek uses a powerbook, the journalist a Mac ibook, the magazine editor  an Airbook. The geekgirl (Salander) is  skinny,  occasionally violent,  abnormally intelligent, obsessively private. She does not emote; she enjoys:  mathematics, sex, hacking.  She has  lesbian girlfriends, bank accounts in the Canary Islands, lawyers in Gibraltar, and a local accountant. She buys a 2.5 million kroner flat with a view and decorates it in one day of shopping in Ikea,   for a total of 97,000 kroner.

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