Thread: the girl who played with fire: discussion including **spoilers**

Yes, now I do!!

Review of DIRK GENTLYS HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY by Douglas Adams * * * * * 5 star "Dirk Gently" is a combination of ghost, horror, detective, time-travel, and romantic comedy. His Detective agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies, but then is stumbles into a four-billion year old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction. This audio is a BBC 4 full cast...

Condorena, Thanks. I didn't say in my previous post that I really liked your response to my original post about the issue of private revenge, Condorena. Very articulate defense of Salander. I'm wondering if you went to law school in addition to medical school. If not, maybe you'll want to do that when you retire from your medical practice. Keep you out of the pool hall. ;-)

Very interesting discussion on Lisbeth's violent tactics, private revenge and institutional failure to protect. And everybody's right! The institutional failures make Lisbeth's actions regrettable but easily understandable and excusable. And the book appeals to that primal, visceral response we all have when we ourselves or someone we care about is threatened. Civilized behavior is like a cloak we wear over our more elemental...

Maine, It's funny you brought up EDGAR SAWTELLE because I also drew a connection to it and FIRE; the storm in the beginning on the beach reminded me of that Shakespearean tempest. Ginny

Weird, Maine Colonial, not bad. And I don't like Hawaaian pizza, either! I loved TATTOO. Read it with hardly a bookmark. Sent a copy to a friend for his birthday-- he thought Salander was weird, too. Best book I've read this year though! As I've mentioned on the threads, I like white collar crime. Art theft, antique mysteries, cold cases, disappearing heiresses and libel suits. The libel suit at the beginning of TATTOO hooked...