On 01/11/2012 02:15 PM, David wrote: > I read all the books long ago. Very gripping. If you liked them you would > enjoy Deon Meyer a Cape Town writer who also creates great characters. > Salander is such a fascinating, captivating person a wonderful character > invention so when discussing her it is sad to admit she couldn't have been > real and therefore one can't seriously debate her. > Smoking so much, eating so badly (as Noomi mentions in the worthy while > special features) how could she have been so tough and fit?
Youth. One can get away with a lot of stuff in their twenties. Bet a lot of people here did and that stuff wouldn't work for us today. Plus you actually do pay for those twenty something indiscretions later on. The character is also cliche geek.
