I really don't like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo novel (and the series). I don't know if anyone really likes it for what it is, and not because reading and holding the novel series in the highest regard are the latest fad. I bet most of the people who gave rave reviews about the series are hipsters.
Damn hipsters ruin everything.
Let me copy an excerpt so you'll understand.
Okay my ass is too lazy to type any excerpt from the book so I just type this as I think. It's the same I tell you.
"As Lisbeth waits for her new Apple PowerBook G4/1.0 GHz in an aluminum case with a PowerPC 7451 processor with an AltiVec Velocity Engine, 960 MB RAM and a 60 GB hard drive, which has BlueTooth and built-in CD and DVD burners and the first 17-inch screen in the laptop world with NVIDIA graphics and a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels, which shook the PC advocates and outranked everything else on the market to boot up, she rests her Nike Air-clad feet topped with a pair of Levi's 501 on the arm of the sofa and sip her Starbucks Iced Caramel Macchiato slowly. Lisbeth rolls the sleeves of her Gap t-shirt, and huffs a breath while she thinks how to get money from the evil rapist spawn of the Devil Nils Bjurman without succumbing to his abuse. "Aahhh, maybe I should put a Sony HD spycam in his Ikea-furniture-filled bedroom so I can record him raping me".
That's just one paragraph, can you imagine a whole book, eh no, THREE books filled with such product placement nonsense? I just can't.
I was so impressed with myself for coming up with the above paragraph in less than 10 minutes that I whatsapped a friend and sent him the exact word-by-word. This is the same hipster friend who kept pressing me to buy the novel, which I did out of annoyance. He said over and over "Serius Wani kau kena baca buku ni best gila. Mesti kau tak boleh nak put down lepas baca first paragraph etc etc etc" and I should have known that his taste sucks ass. He's been hankering about the movie since the American version came out. He has already downloaded the movie, but he still wants to watch it in the cinema once it comes out.
So hipster, to get excited about a shitty book.
And obviously he didn't get it when I whatsapped him "Stieg Larsson had nothing on me baby" and proceeded with the masterpiece I just created because his only reply was "?" and "kau tengah cakap pasal novel mana satu ni?"
Hipster.
And please tell me you get what I mean when I said I didn't like the novel or I'll call you a hipster.
5 comments:
aku pernah baca orang review buku ahadiat akashah...cmni la...hahhha
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Banyak product placement? Bagi aku itu takpe lagi sebab romance novel, tapi Girl series ialah mystery thriller. Tak kena langsung.
hahah lan suke giler stieg larsson. kawan wani tu laki ke?mungkin laki suke?and movie yg klua ni kan daniel craig?takmo tgk jgk?
Kawan aku tu ialah Ariq dan dia cakap Inception tak best. Hurmmmm apa lagi ek? Oh dia cakap Man on the Ledge best. Movie tu sumpah merepek tak best langsung. So aku tak percaya taste dia.
Anyway, aku tak cakap pun aku tak nak tengok movie tu tapi kemungkinan besar takkan tengok la kat panggung sebab ada rape scene yang graphic dan banyak gila scene ganas so aku yakin LPF akan potong banyak. So aku akan download je nanti. RT bagi 85%, nak tengok jugak apa yang best sangat.
Aku cuma cakap yang Ariq nak tengok movie tu kat panggung lagi walaupun dia dah download.
Anyway, lelaki pun banyak kutuk Stieg Larsson jugak, bukan perempuan je.
Bagi link ni kat Lan.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMillenniumTrilogy
Sebab aku tau Lily takkan baca.
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