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** Bear in mind that the author was planning to write ''at least three'' more books - and maybe as many as seven more - before [[AuthorExistenceFailure his unexpected death.]]
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** Bear in mind that the author was planning to write ''at least three'' more books - and maybe as many as seven more - before [[AuthorExistenceFailure [[DiedDuringProduction his unexpected death.]]
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*** In the book it's inferred, but never spoken out, the fact she could pull all the crazy stunts of a JamesBond '''only''' from the moment her legal guardian Holger Palmgren brought her into the security firm and ''under the protective wing of Dragan Armanski''. She had plenty of talent, brilliant intelligence, mastery of the computers, a will of steel, but all of these are not enough in a modern organized state. She needed a regular life, with ID papers, a regular job, a legally rented or owned home, a driving license and an environment of people she could make friends, otherwise she would just end up as a petty criminal like everyone else and forever locked in a mental hospital if caught. The person who put all things on their tracks, before there was any Lisbeth Salander, had been Dragan Armanski. Larsson placed a cue for the readers when he described plentifully the life and personality of the security boss, including the fact his genealogy went through an endless stream of countries and peoples ...which, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial incidentally]], [[AnAesop were hated]] by [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the kind of men Larsson had mocked all his life]].
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*** In the book it's inferred, but never spoken out, the fact she could pull all the crazy stunts of a JamesBond Film/JamesBond '''only''' from the moment her legal guardian Holger Palmgren brought her into the security firm and ''under the protective wing of Dragan Armanski''. She had plenty of talent, brilliant intelligence, mastery of the computers, a will of steel, but all of these are not enough in a modern organized state. She needed a regular life, with ID papers, a regular job, a legally rented or owned home, a driving license and an environment of people she could make friends, otherwise she would just end up as a petty criminal like everyone else and forever locked in a mental hospital if caught. The person who put all things on their tracks, before there was any Lisbeth Salander, had been Dragan Armanski. Larsson placed a cue for the readers when he described plentifully the life and personality of the security boss, including the fact his genealogy went through an endless stream of countries and peoples ...which, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial incidentally]], [[AnAesop were hated]] by [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the kind of men Larsson had mocked all his life]].
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** After a few years, finding evidence or witnesses should have been an impossibility. Lisbeth did not prove what Teleborian did and he defended himself furiously. The trial ended because the prosecutor dropped the charges, there was no legal verdict given.
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** After a few years, finding evidence or witnesses should have been an impossibility. Lisbeth did not prove what Teleborian did and he defended himself furiously. The trial ended because the prosecutor dropped the charges, there was no legal verdict given.given.
* In ''Hornet's Nest'' (book at least), when Salander and Zalacheno are at the hospital, why aren't they guarded before the murder of Zala? 1) Lisbeth is (considered) a violent criminal who has proven capable of evading a national manhunt for an extended period, her hideout still not discovered, and who the police has regretted underestimating time and again. In fact, if she managed to take of again careers would end for sure. 2) Either Salander or Zala may very well have wanted to kill the other very recently, for reasons that didn't vanish with their arrest. 3) A fearless and very dangerous murderer who is closely associated with Zalachenko is on the loose and could be anywhere. From a police standpoint ''both'' these assumptions are reasonable; he's a close ally of Zala and thus might want to free him, or (given Zala's statement), he might suspect Zala could sell him out and thus might want him silenced. 4) And to top it all, while neither is in good condition, they are show to both be off well-enough to leave their beds, with some difficulty, but not nearly so much that their doctor would say they couldn't possibly be able to if they absolutely wanted to.
* In ''Hornet's Nest'' (book at least), when Salander and Zalacheno are at the hospital, why aren't they guarded before the murder of Zala? 1) Lisbeth is (considered) a violent criminal who has proven capable of evading a national manhunt for an extended period, her hideout still not discovered, and who the police has regretted underestimating time and again. In fact, if she managed to take of again careers would end for sure. 2) Either Salander or Zala may very well have wanted to kill the other very recently, for reasons that didn't vanish with their arrest. 3) A fearless and very dangerous murderer who is closely associated with Zalachenko is on the loose and could be anywhere. From a police standpoint ''both'' these assumptions are reasonable; he's a close ally of Zala and thus might want to free him, or (given Zala's statement), he might suspect Zala could sell him out and thus might want him silenced. 4) And to top it all, while neither is in good condition, they are show to both be off well-enough to leave their beds, with some difficulty, but not nearly so much that their doctor would say they couldn't possibly be able to if they absolutely wanted to.
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** I don't think it was ever said that the women themselves were Jewish, only that their names were, and despite the fact that Mary is a common name among Christians (and I know a Christian girl named Magdalena), those names are still Jewish in origin.
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* In ''Hornet's Nest'', Lisbeth alleges that she had to deliberately starve herself during her institutionalization because the psychiatrist in charge of her care ([[spoiler:Teleborian]]) was hiding drugs in her food. Does anyone know what Sweden's laws on that subject are? [[Tropers/SlvstrChung This troper]] hails from California, where hiding drugs in food, or any other sort of medication without consent, is a serious crime, regardless of the person's ability to ''give'' consent. The book makes it seem like this is not true in Sweden, because if it is, someone (either Larsson or Giannini) missed a step; but at the same time it sounds ridiculous that they did not jump on it, since the whole point of the trial was the continuing infringements of Salander's rights. And if being ''drugged into torpor'' isn't such an infringement, then what the hell is?
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* In ''Hornet's Nest'', Lisbeth alleges that she had to deliberately starve herself during her institutionalization because the psychiatrist in charge of her care ([[spoiler:Teleborian]]) was hiding drugs in her food. Does anyone know what Sweden's laws on that subject are? [[Tropers/SlvstrChung This troper]] hails from California, where hiding drugs in food, or any other sort of medication without consent, is a serious crime, regardless of the person's ability to ''give'' consent. The book makes it seem like this is not true in Sweden, because if it is, someone (either Larsson or Giannini) missed a step; but at the same time it sounds ridiculous that they did not jump on it, since the whole point of the trial was the continuing infringements of Salander's rights. And if being ''drugged into torpor'' isn't such an infringement, then what the hell is?is?
** After a few years, finding evidence or witnesses should have been an impossibility. Lisbeth did not prove what Teleborian did and he defended himself furiously. The trial ended because the prosecutor dropped the charges, there was no legal verdict given.
** After a few years, finding evidence or witnesses should have been an impossibility. Lisbeth did not prove what Teleborian did and he defended himself furiously. The trial ended because the prosecutor dropped the charges, there was no legal verdict given.
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** '''Momentarily'''. For him, a few seconds. He was supposed to be made up from nearly 300 pounds of raw muscle and to have the physical resilience of a rock. It [[WordOfGod has been said]] in the book he could [[CursedWithAwesome not have survived to maturity]] otherwise - his build made him able to recover from the countless injuries a man who can't feel pain endures all the time.
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** '''Momentarily'''. For him, a few seconds. He was supposed to be made up from nearly 300 pounds of raw muscle and to have the physical resilience of a rock. It [[WordOfGod has been said]] in the book he could [[CursedWithAwesome not have survived to maturity]] otherwise - his build made him able to recover from the countless injuries a man who can't feel pain endures all the time.time.
* In ''Hornet's Nest'', Lisbeth alleges that she had to deliberately starve herself during her institutionalization because the psychiatrist in charge of her care ([[spoiler:Teleborian]]) was hiding drugs in her food. Does anyone know what Sweden's laws on that subject are? [[Tropers/SlvstrChung This troper]] hails from California, where hiding drugs in food, or any other sort of medication without consent, is a serious crime, regardless of the person's ability to ''give'' consent. The book makes it seem like this is not true in Sweden, because if it is, someone (either Larsson or Giannini) missed a step; but at the same time it sounds ridiculous that they did not jump on it, since the whole point of the trial was the continuing infringements of Salander's rights. And if being ''drugged into torpor'' isn't such an infringement, then what the hell is?
* In ''Hornet's Nest'', Lisbeth alleges that she had to deliberately starve herself during her institutionalization because the psychiatrist in charge of her care ([[spoiler:Teleborian]]) was hiding drugs in her food. Does anyone know what Sweden's laws on that subject are? [[Tropers/SlvstrChung This troper]] hails from California, where hiding drugs in food, or any other sort of medication without consent, is a serious crime, regardless of the person's ability to ''give'' consent. The book makes it seem like this is not true in Sweden, because if it is, someone (either Larsson or Giannini) missed a step; but at the same time it sounds ridiculous that they did not jump on it, since the whole point of the trial was the continuing infringements of Salander's rights. And if being ''drugged into torpor'' isn't such an infringement, then what the hell is?
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*** It's true with most of what RealLife gangs do. [[RuleOfCool The need to attract readers and viewers]] made writers to imagine gangsters live a Mafia-boss life, with luxury mansions and private armies of Tommy-gun armed bodyguards. Most RealLife gangsters are lowly scum whose power is based on the fact they rule over people too cowed or too poor to fight them back via legal or criminal means. They avoid hard targets which draw too much attention.
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*** It's true with most of what RealLife gangs do. [[RuleOfCool The need to attract readers and viewers]] made writers to imagine [[DamnItFeelsGoodTobeAGangster gangsters live a Mafia-boss life, with luxury mansions and private armies of Tommy-gun armed bodyguards.bodyguards]]. Most RealLife gangsters are lowly scum whose power is based on the fact they rule over people too cowed or too poor to fight them back via legal or criminal means. They avoid hard targets which draw too much attention.
