My Reading Experiment (Book #13) - The Leopard
Target: 100 books
Current: 13 books
This one is a timepass book. Hahaha! I just realized that people who aren't from the Indian subcontinent might not be familiar with the word. It's pretty simple, and I'm sure you can make at least a half decent guess as to what it might mean. Urban Dictionary: Timepass meaning
#13
The Leopard
- Jo Nesbo
Liked it, Fiction, Norwegian, Serial killer, Mystery, Harry Hole, Steig Larsson-ish
Crime thrillers, serial killers, psychopaths, and murder investigations have always been an integral part of my literary staple diet. All thanks to my blood-thirsty mother. In real life, she's quite the sweetheart, but when it comes to books, blood and gore are what she thirsts for. All in all, not one bit surprising that she has passed on those genes to me.
When I first read Jo Nesbo's Snowman, it reminded me a little of Steig Larsson (the one wrote Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Larsson was Swedish, Nesbo is Norwegian, and maybe it's just my mind playing little tricks on me because they're both from Nordic countries. Subsequently, I read Nesbo's Redbreast, and now The Leopard. A serial killer is on the prowl, and the modus operandi is blood chilling - Victims unknowingly setting off a device that leads to them choking and drowning in their own blood! Harry Hole, the renegade detective must come back to Norway to stop the serial killer, and soon! Jo Nesbo never fails to hit the mark as far as I'm concerned. Some mystery, check! Psychopath killer, check! A manly brooding detective, a la the Dark Knight, check! And I'm perpetually on the lookout for books that will broaden my cultural horizons in small ways, like Nesbo's books happen to do. I get to learn some Nordic names and places, and any other little cultural references that get thrown my way. I'm the kind of person who finds an unusual word, usually a noun of some sort, and I just have to look it up online to see what it means, and how it gets used, and where.
I know the following excerpt is a bit graphic, and might not go down well with all people. So exercise caution, as necessary. Also, it is in no way a reflection of who I am as a person. I don't get any pleasure out of people dying horrific deaths, I swear!
"She pulled the wire.
The needles shot out of the circular ridges. They were two and a half inches long. Four burst through her cheeks on each side, three into the sinuses, two up the nasal passages and two out through the chin. Two needles pierced the right windpipe and one the right eye, one the left. Several needles penetrated the rear part of the palate and reached the brain. But that was not the direct cause of her death. Because the metal ball impeded movement, she was unable to spit out the blood pouring from the wounds into her mouth. Instead it ran down the windpipe and into her lungs, not allowing oxygen to be absorbed into her bloodstream, which in turn led to cardiac arrest and what the pathologist would call in his report cerebral hypoxia - that is, lack of oxygen to her brain. In other words, Borgny Stem-Myhre drowned."
Current: 13 books
This one is a timepass book. Hahaha! I just realized that people who aren't from the Indian subcontinent might not be familiar with the word. It's pretty simple, and I'm sure you can make at least a half decent guess as to what it might mean. Urban Dictionary: Timepass meaning
#13
The Leopard
- Jo Nesbo
Liked it, Fiction, Norwegian, Serial killer, Mystery, Harry Hole, Steig Larsson-ish
Crime thrillers, serial killers, psychopaths, and murder investigations have always been an integral part of my literary staple diet. All thanks to my blood-thirsty mother. In real life, she's quite the sweetheart, but when it comes to books, blood and gore are what she thirsts for. All in all, not one bit surprising that she has passed on those genes to me.
When I first read Jo Nesbo's Snowman, it reminded me a little of Steig Larsson (the one wrote Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Larsson was Swedish, Nesbo is Norwegian, and maybe it's just my mind playing little tricks on me because they're both from Nordic countries. Subsequently, I read Nesbo's Redbreast, and now The Leopard. A serial killer is on the prowl, and the modus operandi is blood chilling - Victims unknowingly setting off a device that leads to them choking and drowning in their own blood! Harry Hole, the renegade detective must come back to Norway to stop the serial killer, and soon! Jo Nesbo never fails to hit the mark as far as I'm concerned. Some mystery, check! Psychopath killer, check! A manly brooding detective, a la the Dark Knight, check! And I'm perpetually on the lookout for books that will broaden my cultural horizons in small ways, like Nesbo's books happen to do. I get to learn some Nordic names and places, and any other little cultural references that get thrown my way. I'm the kind of person who finds an unusual word, usually a noun of some sort, and I just have to look it up online to see what it means, and how it gets used, and where.
I know the following excerpt is a bit graphic, and might not go down well with all people. So exercise caution, as necessary. Also, it is in no way a reflection of who I am as a person. I don't get any pleasure out of people dying horrific deaths, I swear!
"She pulled the wire.
The needles shot out of the circular ridges. They were two and a half inches long. Four burst through her cheeks on each side, three into the sinuses, two up the nasal passages and two out through the chin. Two needles pierced the right windpipe and one the right eye, one the left. Several needles penetrated the rear part of the palate and reached the brain. But that was not the direct cause of her death. Because the metal ball impeded movement, she was unable to spit out the blood pouring from the wounds into her mouth. Instead it ran down the windpipe and into her lungs, not allowing oxygen to be absorbed into her bloodstream, which in turn led to cardiac arrest and what the pathologist would call in his report cerebral hypoxia - that is, lack of oxygen to her brain. In other words, Borgny Stem-Myhre drowned."
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