Jo Nesbø. 59 years. Some words from his readers about him

Photograph: (c) Brenda Fitzsimons, The Irish Times.

Time flies… And here we are again in a Winners will be announced in MarchBig day for readers who, to put it mildly, have a certain fondness for Jo Nesbø. And if we say it without softness, we directly idolize it. The Norwegian writer, a Viking with little but immense talent for the crime novel, falls for the 59 calendar studs. Cheers!

This year also gives us the twelfth installment of his most adored and lovable creature, the commissioner Harry hole. Will be on July, with Knife (Knife). But today it's time to congratulate him with a few words from his readers about his works in general. I want to thank especially to the members of the FB group Hooked on Jo Nesbø for having shared some of their Reviews for this article.

A note

Note that almost all the opinions collected are from readers. There I leave it ... So are the readers male they have been a bit laziest. Or maybe we are sooooo many black novel readers, and unprejudiced to admit that characters so bit politically correct like Harry Hole they touch us deepest fiber.

Nuria

I discovered Nesbø with Petirrojo and as it usually happens with him I wanted to read all his work published. Nesbø gets that I get excited, that I love and hate to characters, that I imagine impossible situations and that Harry Hole is more and more angel and more demon. But for me Hole is not all Nesbø.

For example, I have finished Macbeth does nothing and his reading has been brutal. Shakespeare's original play is one of my favorites. When I come to the scene where Macbeth declaims "my soul is full of scorpions," I shudder and try to imagine a man choked by ambition, revenge, suffering, penance, blind love for his Lady Macbeth and The madness. And all this is in the dark thriller by Nesbø that recreates the passions of Macbeth, Banquo, MacDuff and company.

El great success of Nesbø, from the humility and passion that is noted towards the work of the English, is inquire into what Shakespeare has in store. Knowing the childhood of Duff and Macbeth, their vices, their innocent or not innocent first loves, their baseness, as well as the life of Lady Macbeth and a large number of secondary ones who gain voice, has been a pleasure that only Nesbø could give me.

Rosalba

I met Jo with him Dr. Proctor, and I stayed so excited I looked for his adult books. There it was my undoing ...

Elisa

I discovered it with Petirrojo And I couldn't stop anymore! I devoured the book into nothing! I fell in love with his pen and his great character description, and what was my surprise to discover that it was the third book in the Harry Hole saga. That master's degree in creating a world in a book where there is a plot that closes with its end, or another that can continue in the next future book (or not). And how do you sense that there is something else in the past, that does not hinder at all enjoying the history of the book in question, but it makes you want to read all the previous ones. A pass!

Francisco

I declare myself absolute and unconditional super megafán Harry Hole and other characters. I haven't stopped since The bat. When I finish with all of them and change my third, I'm going to be weird.

mariola b.

With each book it is overcome, so I am looking forward to the next one.

Sara

I am with The heir. It's not letting me down, like everything from Jo Nesbø.

Montserrat

I love NesbøI'm in love with Harry Hole.

Anna R.

I started to read The heir and yes, I'm really liking it. It's true that every page I turn I would like to see HH make a cameo, but no, I don't think I'll miss it. Nesbø is noticed in every paragraph.

Isabel

Nesbø started without warning, as in one of his stories, in a weekly series of black novels with authors such as Henning Mankell, Ian Rankin, Philip Kerr or Petros Márkaris. I did not know him. No one had told me about him. I almost didn't even buy it.

The culprit of everything: Petirrojo, his third book and the one that got me hooked like many of you to read the whole saga, with jumps back and forth as their titles were published in Spain.

I do not like novels of blood, or violence. The clichés of alcoholic, uprooted and lonely detectives seem too typical to me. Nor do I enjoy high-level corruption environments, or urban but third world underworld. And yet I love him. I love Harry Hole and his father, Jo Nesbø. I dream of your happy / unhappy life, your love / hate relationships, and your near future.

I look forward to your books coming out and I read them avidly until I realize that I have few pages left and I slow down the reading so as not to finish. In my head I have the image of HH, very similar to that of his father, but three feet taller, and no one is going to change it for many films made of him. For me it is not a character. HH is a friend The one you see from time to time and with whom you would like to have more contact, but who is not allowed. The one you love and hate for his actions. The one you do not forget.


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  1.   Nuria said

    What pride to be part of the Nesbo family. Thank you
    Mariola for celebrating Nesbo's birthday like this. May I meet you very happy and with many more books 😉

  2.   Mariola Diaz-Cano Arevalo said

    Thank you very much, Nuria. And yes, what pride.