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Loading... The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006)by Stieg Larsson
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 AdonisGuilfoyle | Jan 27, 2015 |  Excellent continuation of the trilogy. (  ) sharoncville3579 | Jan 24, 2015 | I like to read all of a series. I thought that this series was all of a piece. It is too bad that the author did not live to enjoy his moment. (  ) Kelley.Logan | Jan 16, 2015 | Lo finisci e ti lascia con la netta sensazione che tutto debba ancora succedere.....non ci resta che aspettare!!! (  ) Orsobalooo | Jan 4, 2015 | I had this one sitting in my Nook for quite a while. I loved the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo but had the same reaction at the end of this book as Lisbeth Salander had - "Kalle Fucking Blomqvist." I can suspend disbelief for a lot of things but I had this book figured out before I was even halfway done, and that included the relationships of the major players to one another. I wonder if this trilogy would have had the same reception had the author lived on to write more? My guess is no. It's an o.k. mystery tale with some pretty hard to believe plot twists. The writing and development of the characters and situations don't match up to those of its predecessor. That being said, I still enjoyed the book. It was a fun diversion and I plan on reading the final book in the trilogy at some point. I guess I'll have to watch the movies and see how they stand up to the book now. ( ) ozzieslim | Dec 27, 2014 |
 When a novel moves or affects me deeply, I think about it when I’m walking around. I don’t find myself thinking about The Girl Who Played With Fire, but while I was reading it, I was useless until I got to the end. In retrospect, my experience of the book, like it’s characters, seems unreal. As, of course, it was. When Larsson gets down to the business of telling a story, he tells a nerve-tingling tale. For all the complications of the melodramatic story, which advances at a brisk, violently cinematic clip in Reg Keeland’s translation, it’s clear where Larsson’s strongest interests lie — in his heroine and the ill-concealed attitudes she brings out in men. Mr. Larsson’s two central characters, Salander and Blomkvist, transcend their genre and insinuate themselves in the reader’s mind through their oddball individuality, their professional competence and, surprisingly, their emotional vulnerability.  What follows is a combination of urgent, multilayered thriller, traditional police procedural and articulate examination of the way a supposedly open-minded country like Sweden treats both its vulnerable women and children in care. Is contained in
No descriptions found. On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.… (more) |
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Lisbeth Salander is a male fantasy and a weak character. Childhood trauma? Check. Unconventional looks? Nose rings, tattoos, body of a fourteen year old. Check. Superhuman intelligence? Check. Kicks ass? Check. Bisexual? Well, of course! All very Hollywood, all very PC, but lacking any originality. She would have been better explained as a cyborg, along the lines of Cameron in The Sarah Connor Chronicles - at least then all her hacking talent/super deductive reasoning/incredible strength and survival skills - not to mention lack of emotion - would have made more sense (and made for a cooler, more sympathetic character!) Otherwise, she's just an odd combination of victim and golden princess, for men to either abuse or protect. I liked her friend Miriam Wu better. Author-insert Mikael Blomkvist is not much better - like James Bond, he's some sort of charismatic stud who always gets the girl, from Lisbeth to his married editor (whose husband is very accommodating, because you know, it's Blomkvist!)
The plot did keep me reading, but the dark sexual undertones - once again - did make me wonder about the author's predilections. Tying everything to Lisbeth, though - even though she is the 'girl' of the title - was a mistake, I fear. She doesn't hold up well to so much focus. Everybody loves her, she can do anything she puts her mind to, hasn't she had such a hard life, isn't she incredible! No. I preferred her better when she was being mysterious in the first novel.
I can sort of see why the 'Girl' trilogy hit cult status a while back - especially for guys, who read for action and not characterisation - but I haven't been brainwashed at all, and won't be reading the last in the set, not even for free! (