I listened to a book report on NPR the other day. Someone was talking about Stieg Larssons Millenium trilogy (of course) and then went on to talk about other great Swedish crime writers, and most importantly, the founders of the Swedish crime novel, Sjöwall and Wahlöö, who in the 60's and 70's wrote the books about police detective Martin Beck. It was a good piece but I couldn't help but getting distracted every time the reporter pronounced their names:
"Shouaaal and ualoo".
Over and over again. I lost focus. Couldn't stop myself from repeating it over and over again in my head.
Shouaaal and ualoo.
For the American readers, this won't make any sense, and I apologise for that.
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