Let the Right One In, also known as Let Me In. Who's read it? Thoughts? Opinion? I want to pick it up.
Let the Right One In, also known as Let Me In
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By all means read it. I just read it last month. Loved it. Wonderful. Powerful. It's so much more than a vampire story. The movie is terrific too, but the book goes into so much more detail and it is scarier, but books almost always are.
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I'm reading it now, and I kind of wish I wasn't. I'm past the page count where I'd ordinarily decide it simply wasn't for me. However, this was a gift from our son's girlfriend, so I feel obliged to complete it.
Part of my problem lies in the quality of the translation. I find it stale, uninvolving, and at times awkward. I can't believe a novel so highly regarded read that way in its original form.
Maryn, on page 125 or so
Part of my problem lies in the quality of the translation. I find it stale, uninvolving, and at times awkward. I can't believe a novel so highly regarded read that way in its original form.
Maryn, on page 125 or so
I'll agree that there were some translation problems, which not knowing Swedish, to me seemed perhaps a function of trying to perserve the feel of the language. I got used to it. There was one thing that bothered the heck out of me, they mistranslated the comic book character The Flash as The Lightning. At first I thought it was for legal reasons, but then they mentioned Superman who is owned by the same company as The Flash.
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Really? Interesting. I read it last year around Christmas and loved it. I agree with you that the prose style was sort of clinical, but I took that as the author's intent rather than a failure of translation.
Personally I loved it. The author is now on my Buy In Hardback list.
I watched the movie last night and LOVED it. I finally got the book and am just starting to read it 
I watched the movie last night and LOVED it. I finally got the book and am just starting to read it
The book (somehow) manages to be even better than the movie and I LOVED it too.
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Adored the film.
Read the book, was very impressed. Has things in it that would (sadly) be almost impossible to film. It is a wildly unsentimental yet strangely sweet, dark love story.
Read the book, was very impressed. Has things in it that would (sadly) be almost impossible to film. It is a wildly unsentimental yet strangely sweet, dark love story.
Is this the one where one of the MC's is named Oskar? I think I've picked the movie up but haven't watched it yet.
The movie is available on Netflix instant play. I have it in my queue but am trying to finish up a rough draft, so haven't watched it yet. Heard all good things about it, though.
I watched the movie with a gaggle of friends, but they all hated it Unfortunately they found the movie to be weird and boring and they fastforwarded a bunch of parts. I liked what I saw, though, and I've been curious about the book. With so many positive reviews here I might have to pick it up!
Unfortunately they found the movie to be weird and boring and they fastforwarded a bunch of parts. I liked what I saw, though, and I've been curious about the book. With so many positive reviews here I might have to pick it up!
I finished this book today in bed. I'm fightng a terrible flu. The book had many great moments however I wasn't impressed with the ending. Overall, I'd tell anyone to read the book. It's a decent read.