I've got a simple question that just simply pissed my off when I bought the book. Why did you change the title of the book when the author expressly chose a title he wanted? what was your intention?
Hello veryape, The UK publisher changed the title for marketing reasons, wanting to make a series based on the title of the 2nd book, which was the correct title in Swedish: hence "The Girl" series. They apparently thought that "Men Who Hate Women" sounded like a nonfiction pop psychology book. Blame them, not me.
Hi Reg I have just read through your blog and found it very interesting. I found you because I am just reading Lackberg's The Preacher, but I got interested in your blog because my husband and I work as freelance Danish translators, but on academic books. It is very much a part-time, evening project for us because we are both full-time academics, but it was interesting to read about how you and your wife work together. With us, my husband, who is the Dane, translates into basic English and then I - who used to work as an editor in publishing - put everything together in beautiful (ha!) English.
The Last Good Man - A.J. Kazinski [translated by Tiina Nunnally]
The Black Echo - Michael Connelly
Worth Dying For - Lee Child
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Inside the Jihad: A Spy's Story - Omar Nasiri
Relic - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Me, the Mob and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells - Tommy James with Martin Fitzpatrick
2084: An Oral History of the Great Warming - James Lawrence Powell [on Kindle]
Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
Untouched by Human Hands - Robert Sheckley (his first collection of SF stories, some of which hold up well after 57 years)
The Hidden Child - Camilla Läckberg [translated by Tiina Nunnally]
Silesian Station - David Downing (if you like books about Berlin in the '30s & '40s, this series is excellent)
Zoo Station - David Downing
After the Wall - Jana Hensel
On Gratitude: Celebrities Share What They're Most Thankful For - Todd Aaron Jensen (lots of nuggets of wisdom here)
The Tourist - Olen Steinhauer
Tripwire - Lee Child
Black Betty - Walter Mosley
The Main Experiment - Christopher Hodder-Williams
Dead Low Tide - John D. Macdonald
Albums I'm listening to
Lionel Hampton & Teddy Wilson with Gene Krupa (1960s)
George Benson/Joe Farrell: Benson & Farrell (1976)
Larry Carlton: Sleepwalk (1982)
Al Cohn/Zoot Sims Quintet: You 'n Me (1960s)
Joe Pass, Clark Terry, et al: A Celebration of Duke (1980)
Eric Gale: Blue Horizon (1982)
George Benson: Blue Benson (1976)
George Benson: Body Talk
A Man and the Blues - Buddy Guy (1968) Buddy's first Vanguard album and still one of his best -- with the wondrous Otis Spann on piano
Hoosier Hot Shots: Everybody Stomp (2003) Great 4 CD set from Proper Records in the UK (if you haven't heard these guys, check them out -- the happiest music on the planet!) "Are you ready, Hezzie?"
Tony Mottola: various pop guitar albums from the '60s
Erik Satie: Piano Music (Aldo Ciccolini) (1950s) Magnifico!
Eric Gale & Ron Carter: In a Jazz Tradition (1988) Tasty!
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (1966) My favorite poetry in song form
The Harmonicats: Best Loved Hits (1984) Fond memories of my grandfather's 78 collection...
Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) The Lou Reed workouts are the standout on this disc
Hoyt Axton: Life Machine (1974)
J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites 1-4 (1739)
Some of my favorite movies
District 9 (2009) a modernized PhilDickian tale about humans and aliens; which do you think are more human?
The Soloist (2008) very good movie that zeros in on what music does to your mind
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Out of the Past (1947)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Vertigo (1958)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Chinatown (1974)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
The Awful Truth (1937)
After the Thin Man (1936)
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
Any B science fiction movie with Whit Bissell, such as Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
I've got a simple question that just simply pissed my off when I bought the book.
ReplyDeleteWhy did you change the title of the book when the author expressly chose a title he wanted? what was your intention?
Hello veryape,
ReplyDeleteThe UK publisher changed the title for marketing reasons, wanting to make a series based on the title of the 2nd book, which was the correct title in Swedish: hence "The Girl" series. They apparently thought that "Men Who Hate Women" sounded like a nonfiction pop psychology book. Blame them, not me.
Hi Reg
ReplyDeleteI have just read through your blog and found it very interesting.
I found you because I am just reading Lackberg's The Preacher, but I got interested in your blog because my husband and I work as freelance Danish translators, but on academic books. It is very much a part-time, evening project for us because we are both full-time academics, but it was interesting to read about how you and your wife work together.
With us, my husband, who is the Dane, translates into basic English and then I - who used to work as an editor in publishing - put everything together in beautiful (ha!) English.