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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Sjowall & Wahloo and other series
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.221426.813@eff.org>
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- References: <1992Dec29.001118.10561@eff.org> <1992Dec30.155425.8247@speedy.aero.org> <1992Dec30.205213.25688@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:14:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.205213.25688@samba.oit.unc.edu> joan@med.unc.edu (Joan Shields) writes:
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- >They did a damn good job of it as well. I enjoy the series because of the
- >well-developed characters they aren't always one way or another ie:
- >sometimes Lennart Kollberg can be an ass and sometimes you just want to
- >shake Martin Beck - Gunvald Larsson is a very interesting character, a lot
- >more complex than most of his fellow policemen realize.
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- It is a measure of how well they perform their job that readers of the
- series are stunned when some minor characters, whom we've seen in the
- early books of the series, are killed in a particular sudden and brutal
- fashion. It was a very effective setup.
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- --Mike
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