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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Having finished the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I have come away with rather mixed feelings. I greatly enjoyed the first third of the book where the scene was set and the characters introduced, however, as the pace picked up and the story became more gripping, I actually enjoyed it less and less. This was partly the grisliness of the violence against women (particularly the bits you imagined rather than the bits explicitly described) scenes, but also the fact that it became more predictable (not wishing to give away the plot, but how many serial killer novels / films etc are there!) The resolution of the book also seemed to drag itself out far more than necessary. That said, I'll almost certainly be reading the next two books - it will be interesting to see what happens next. (  ) Steph78 | Jan 7, 2010 |  I thoroughly enjoyed it. I admit the first 50 pages was a bit dull - a didn't care a wit about the libel suit with the billionnaire but fortunately that went away soon enough. After that the book was fast-paced (for over 500 pgs) and fascinating. Lisbeth is probably the greatest kick-ass heroine since Buffy. I like Bloomquist but found him a bit removed emotionally (but then so was Lisbeth tho in different ways). Yes, the story did deal with the sadistic and grisly deaths of women - and yes, it is tiresome and depressing to read (and watch thru TV, Movies, books) but in the character of Lisbeth Salander the author tries to show that women need not be victims. A worthwhile read.... (  )1  Gaynel | Jan 6, 2010 | This was a pretty interesting book. I had a little trouble keeping up as the names seemed very similar and the locations weren't familiar to me (it was originally written in swedish), but it was very well written and a complicated, but interesting storyline. Apparently the author had two others written before he passed away. (  ) nerdyapplebottom | Jan 5, 2010 | This book is exciting adn immense fun to read. Mesmerizing would be an apt description. It is a combination of family saga, love stoy, financial intrigue and murder mystery. Main character, Mikael Blomkvist is hired to investigate the murder of a wealthy girl who disappeared in 1966. During his investigation he cinnects wwith aqqn investigative researcher who looks like a punk rocker (tatoos and piercings), but who has a photogaphic memory and is an accomplished computer hacker. She(Lisbeth Salander) is a social misfit, but together they work through several sticky situations. ( ) Beth350 | Jan 4, 2010 | Serious topic, written quite well (I will probably be compelled to read the second and third part of the trilogy), yet I wasn't as taken with it as the reviews suggested one would. (  ) Clara53 | Jan 4, 2010 | 
 [Richman reviews several Scandinavian novels, including Larsson's.] Why have readers taken to these writers? The novels are not formally innovative: With a few exceptions, these are straightforward whodunits, hewing closely to conventional models from the English tradition. Nor does their appeal depend on a "relentlessly bleak view of the world," as a writer for the London Times has put it. Bleak worldviews are not particularly hard to come by in crime novels, no matter what country they come from. What distinguishes these books is not some element of Nordic grimness but their evocation of an almost sublime tranquility. When a crime occurs, it is shocking exactly because it disrupts a world that, at least to an American reader, seems utopian in its peacefulness, happiness, and orderliness.  The novel offers a thoroughly ugly view of human nature, especially when it comes to the way Swedish men treat Swedish women. In Larsson’s world, sadism, murder and suicide are commonplace — as is lots of casual sex. (Sweden isn’t all bad.) The first-time author's excitement at his creation is palpable, strangely, in the book's sometimes amateurish construction. There are frequent long digressions in this big book (more than 500 pages) in which he laboriously fills in back-story details. Then there is the Vanger family; what might have seemed like a bit of fun gets out of hand as easily more than 20 people with the surname Vanger are mixed into the story. To his credit, though, he always regains control and restores momentum.
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