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<blockquote data-quote="Azuresun" data-source="post: 8241928" data-attributes="member: 7022312"><p>I'm the same way with anything that has villain protagonists. It always feels like the writer gets just a bit too carried away with making excuses for horrible people doing horrible things, and the fans are way too quick to forgive evil people just so long as they're charismatic and / or pretty. </p><p></p><p>I don't know if anyone even remembers it now, but <em>House of Leaves</em>. It was billed as the most terrifying and disturbing thing you could possibly read....and to me, it was 5% effective psychological horror and 5% mild creepiness vs hundreds of pages of the writer tediously waffling on about how clever and postmodern he was and using "clever" word layouts that meant a lot of the pages were half empty space.</p><p></p><p>The <em>Millenium</em> series. I read the first one, quite liked it. Then in the second, it started to look like Larsson didn't have any new ideas, and the way the victims-to-be were jumping around waving their death flags reminded me of that bit in <em>Hot Shots!</em> and I couldn't take it seriously after that point. Plus, I did read where in Larsson's past it came from, but the author's issues with all men being misogynist jerks <strong>at best</strong> (except the protagonist) was getting pretty grinding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azuresun, post: 8241928, member: 7022312"] I'm the same way with anything that has villain protagonists. It always feels like the writer gets just a bit too carried away with making excuses for horrible people doing horrible things, and the fans are way too quick to forgive evil people just so long as they're charismatic and / or pretty. I don't know if anyone even remembers it now, but [I]House of Leaves[/I]. It was billed as the most terrifying and disturbing thing you could possibly read....and to me, it was 5% effective psychological horror and 5% mild creepiness vs hundreds of pages of the writer tediously waffling on about how clever and postmodern he was and using "clever" word layouts that meant a lot of the pages were half empty space. The [I]Millenium[/I] series. I read the first one, quite liked it. Then in the second, it started to look like Larsson didn't have any new ideas, and the way the victims-to-be were jumping around waving their death flags reminded me of that bit in [I]Hot Shots![/I] and I couldn't take it seriously after that point. Plus, I did read where in Larsson's past it came from, but the author's issues with all men being misogynist jerks [B]at best[/B][I] [/I](except the protagonist) was getting pretty grinding. [/QUOTE]
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