NORDIC NOIR scandi candy etc anyone want to start a micro book club here?

[bonnetarte]

CALLING all fans of Harry Hole, Mikael Blomqvist,Patrik Hedstrom and Inspector VV.
Anyone fancy a chat?

[taylor74]

Love Harry Hole "The Redbreast" xx

[unclefester77]

I'm very fond of Harry

[bonnetarte]

I have unfortunately read Harry out of order, but also loved The Redbreast. Have just started Nemesis , but read The Snowman and The leopard recently. Who would you cast as Harry if they made the film?

[bonnetarte]

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[Greenmantle]

Clive Owen. Kind of craggy and good looking but not too handsome.

[Blackduck]

No Clive is not right - needs to be blond and tall....
Is The Leopard a Harry book?
Who is Hedstrom? Love Inspector VV and the one in Jarcity

[taylor74]

I think my Harry would have to be either Ralph Fiennes or Christian Bale. Need someone good looking but rough around the edges.

[TotalChaos]

Hello! is VV varg veum?? Daniel Craig as harry Hole. bloody annoying when they translate series out of order then end up with massive spolier about plotlines in earlier books.

[bonnetarte]

VV is Inspector Van Veeteren. He is a detective in Hakan Nesser books.
TC Daniel Craig has already been cast as Mickel Blomqvist in US version of Girl with Dragon Tattoo, so maybe not.
I get the feeling that HH is supposed to be more like Jo Nesbo himself but I also fancy dougray scott as HH

[bonnetarte]

Patrick hedstom is a police officer in Camilla Lackberg book series

[Blackduck]

Oh haven't read any of them - are they good? Trouble with the Nordic stuff I find is they are so depressing - you need to intersperse them with something lighter (a bit of Italian stuff perhaps!)

[bonnetarte]

yes i agree can be a bit dark with all that weather and coffee drinking. not really summer reading!
anyhoo the Camilla Lackbergs are quite good although the translations have left them a bit flat for my taste. Much prefer Asa Larsson- she is a terrific read. Asa larssons book are set way up in Lapland with lots of interesting refs to Sahmi people etc. Beautifully written IMHO here

[unclefester77]

bonnetarte you are so right. Spent some time pondering this and realised that my mental image of Harry Hole is just Jo Nesbo himself....

[bonnetarte]

UF yes but taller- maybe HH is who JN would Like to be! Although Jo N is a bit rocknroll too- hes in a thrash metal band apparently. LOL

[unclefester77]

yes indeed....The other big problem is that having read all JN's books I am seized with an urge to visit Oslo but it is too expensive

[taylor74]

I would love to go to Oslo too x

[unclefester77]

since I cannot afford to travel to Norway I have ordered [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dinosaur-Feather-Sissel-Jo-Gazan/dp/0857380338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306163716&sr=8-1&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 The Dinosaur Feather] instead. It is set in Copenhagen, and I've actually been there, so I can stop whining now

[unclefester77]

hmm, messed the link up. This is the link www.amazon.co.uk/Dinosaur-Feather-Sissel-Jo-Gazan/dp/0857380338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306163716&sr=8-1&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[taylor74]

Awesome link cheers unclefester77

[bonnetarte]

gosh YES would love to go to Oslo and Stockholm and now Abisko too. Was talking to one of my customers yesterday who has just come back having got a Ryanair deal fro £9 return or something, but said she couldnt afford to eat out when she got there and that a pint of local beer was £8.50.
I make do with google earth LOL

[bonnetarte]

oh like the look of that book UF.
did any of you watch The Killing- also Copenhagen based.
Cannot WAIT for series 2

[unclefester77]

No. I missed the first one of the 24 after I left iPlayer too late, boo hiss. I am hoping for a birthday present box set now

[horseyrider]

I would love to go to Norway and Sweden - I'm enjoying Wallander at the moment. I'm particularly drawn to Norway as I'm an a-ha fan (lol)!

[horseyrider]

By the way, does anyone follow the 'Nemi' cartoon strip in the Metro. She's from Norway. Her outlook on life totally mirrors my own!

[MoniDubai]

Me too, infact Year 7 new mums meeting centred around anyone who loved Steig, wanted to do a club on having Scan fiction in common but we're at school in Dubai ! Look at //www.doindubai.com for more brill recommendations, thanks. Sadly we don't get the original movies here either, have to wait to see them in summer in UK