Hayes's review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) > Likes and Comments
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I'd like to know your opinion about this book. I've marked it as to-read too, because it's being very successful here...
all my friends are talking about it... I don't know when I'll get to it, I have soooo many other things on TBR.
When are you going to start reading? do you already have a copy?
Hi there. It is definitely worth a bump up your TBR lists, especially if you like both literature and thrillers. The slow detailed start is appropriate to get the right people at the right place, including the reader, and there are other ways it works well that are different. Then again, it's pleasant to know there are 2 other volumes to come with some or several of the better characters. Makes me feel like a 'Twilight' or 'Lord of the Rings' sequel-reading teenage reader again, but it is better than hobbits in my humble opinion. Not read the Twilighters and may never do so. Did read the first of Northern Lights/Golden Compass, at least, so am not completely ignorant.
I just checked my "bookring" position... there are about 8 people ahead of me... who knows when it will arrive! Just as well, I have too many other things lined up!
p 165: Then the weather changed and the temperature rose steadily to a balmy -10*C.
Brrrr.... Bettie, how do you manage? My feet are cold just reading about it!!
THICK wool socks - home sheared, homespun and home knitted with padded trousers. I look like Michelin Man for 5 months of the year LOL
Looking forward to getting hold of this trilogy, so what if Mt TBR is already in danger of becoming an avalanche!
I just sent the BC copy to switzerland and she is the last in line (I think, will go check).
ETA: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6...
Linda wrote: "Oh do you think there is any chance it might be able to come my way sometime?"
drop UlrikeW and/or followdream a line! Definitely worth it!
I have done, but no response, never mind ,not as if I have nothing to read!
Easter weather this year has been somewhat disappointing!
I'll say! There was a veritable tornado here this morning! Had to race out and pull the clothes rack in... otherwise I would have had to go to Naples to get my socks back!
I'm on page 100 of TGWDT and I'm waiting for this story to pick up steam. Maybe I've been tainted by reading mostly James Patterson, John Grisham and Dan Brown, or perhaps Google has, in fact, made me stupid like the author Nick Carr suggests, but I am having a hard time getting into this story. As an American, more specifically a Texan, maybe I'm just used to faster stories. As a writer, we've always been told to write about characters that people care about. I only started to care about Lisbeth once she went to visit her mother, showing her "human" side. The rest of the cast, not so much. I'm going to stick with it to the end, Momma always said the most important thing is to follow through. Anyone else fighthing the need for more action in the book? Or will there be more coming later?
Hayes wrote: "I'll say! There was a veritable tornado here this morning! Had to race out and pull the clothes rack in... otherwise I would have had to go to Naples to get my socks back!"
Oh Noes!!! Not the home knitted ones *shudders at the thought*
Hi, Mark.
Another reviewer said something similar about how it takes a while to get "into" each of the 3 books, but he also had to admit it was always for good reasons, not just to set the scene in a different country.
I'd have thought that anyone from my own native state would be used to the slow start, like a good country discussion out on the screened porch with some iced tea. Of course, that was back when there wasn't much on the tube and we were just being together, known as visiting. Perhaps things have sped up there.
That reviewer wrote in French, where the books came out earlier, but you might glance through some of the more thoughtful comments on GReads for others. Since Mill on the Floss is one of my favorite novels, I didn't notice any slow start, and I've met much more unsympathetic characters than that group, even recently. But I see your point.
Back to you, Mark. I checked and find that my personal reviewers did not really write about this aspect, even in French, where the review came at the end. I do know that he noted the slow start for each of the series, but in the end dropped it as a concern in the reviews and in general. My bro also mentioned it to someone, too, but then read the full series, as all have done I know, though had to wait for the US copy for the last one, even if it was available in the UK long before last May.
I did find an interesting review amongst them all on GR that might explain why, from Beth in MN, from which I cite a likely reason it takes a while to get into:
" I’m actually a bit surprised I loved the book as much as I did because I normally criticize authors for trying to jam too much into one story and this book had a lot going on:
--shady business dealings
--corporate fraud
--murder
--religious fanaticism
--extramarital affairs
--Nazis
--casual sex
--creepy pervs
--violence against women
--money laundering
--sexual sadism
--political proselytizing
--dysfunctional family secrets
And that’s just scraping the surface. Because once Larsson got into it and started digging deeper into the plot and revealing more details, my head started spinning and I had smoke coming out of my ears. I wasn’t expecting to be sucked in so quickly by the plot and am still reeling over the fact that this brick-like book (my copy has nearly 600 pages) went as quickly as it did."
She might also suggest that a sunny climate in the south may get in your way, considering her personal connection to this book was by way of her ethnic background, but I'm neither Swedish nor from a northern state and had no trouble, as said in the last post. You might try moving your post to the main reviews, that is, if you still feel the same way by the middle of the book: or of the series, which may come fast! Enjoy it, anyway, no matter what the shortcomings, and don't let me argue you out of your response. No no.
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all my friends are talking about it... I don't know when I'll get to it, I have soooo many other things on TBR. When are you going to start reading? do you already have a copy?
Hi there. It is definitely worth a bump up your TBR lists, especially if you like both literature and thrillers. The slow detailed start is appropriate to get the right people at the right place, including the reader, and there are other ways it works well that are different. Then again, it's pleasant to know there are 2 other volumes to come with some or several of the better characters. Makes me feel like a 'Twilight' or 'Lord of the Rings' sequel-reading teenage reader again, but it is better than hobbits in my humble opinion. Not read the Twilighters and may never do so. Did read the first of Northern Lights/Golden Compass, at least, so am not completely ignorant.
I just checked my "bookring" position... there are about 8 people ahead of me... who knows when it will arrive! Just as well, I have too many other things lined up!
p 165: Then the weather changed and the temperature rose steadily to a balmy -10*C.Brrrr.... Bettie, how do you manage? My feet are cold just reading about it!!
THICK wool socks - home sheared, homespun and home knitted with padded trousers. I look like Michelin Man for 5 months of the year LOL
Looking forward to getting hold of this trilogy, so what if Mt TBR is already in danger of becoming an avalanche!
I just sent the BC copy to switzerland and she is the last in line (I think, will go check).ETA: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6...
Linda wrote: "Oh do you think there is any chance it might be able to come my way sometime?"drop UlrikeW and/or followdream a line! Definitely worth it!
I have done, but no response, never mind ,not as if I have nothing to read!Easter weather this year has been somewhat disappointing!
I'll say! There was a veritable tornado here this morning! Had to race out and pull the clothes rack in... otherwise I would have had to go to Naples to get my socks back!
I'm on page 100 of TGWDT and I'm waiting for this story to pick up steam. Maybe I've been tainted by reading mostly James Patterson, John Grisham and Dan Brown, or perhaps Google has, in fact, made me stupid like the author Nick Carr suggests, but I am having a hard time getting into this story. As an American, more specifically a Texan, maybe I'm just used to faster stories. As a writer, we've always been told to write about characters that people care about. I only started to care about Lisbeth once she went to visit her mother, showing her "human" side. The rest of the cast, not so much. I'm going to stick with it to the end, Momma always said the most important thing is to follow through. Anyone else fighthing the need for more action in the book? Or will there be more coming later?
Hayes wrote: "I'll say! There was a veritable tornado here this morning! Had to race out and pull the clothes rack in... otherwise I would have had to go to Naples to get my socks back!"Oh Noes!!! Not the home knitted ones *shudders at the thought*
Hi, Mark.Another reviewer said something similar about how it takes a while to get "into" each of the 3 books, but he also had to admit it was always for good reasons, not just to set the scene in a different country.
I'd have thought that anyone from my own native state would be used to the slow start, like a good country discussion out on the screened porch with some iced tea. Of course, that was back when there wasn't much on the tube and we were just being together, known as visiting. Perhaps things have sped up there.
That reviewer wrote in French, where the books came out earlier, but you might glance through some of the more thoughtful comments on GReads for others. Since Mill on the Floss is one of my favorite novels, I didn't notice any slow start, and I've met much more unsympathetic characters than that group, even recently. But I see your point.
Back to you, Mark. I checked and find that my personal reviewers did not really write about this aspect, even in French, where the review came at the end. I do know that he noted the slow start for each of the series, but in the end dropped it as a concern in the reviews and in general. My bro also mentioned it to someone, too, but then read the full series, as all have done I know, though had to wait for the US copy for the last one, even if it was available in the UK long before last May. I did find an interesting review amongst them all on GR that might explain why, from Beth in MN, from which I cite a likely reason it takes a while to get into:
" I’m actually a bit surprised I loved the book as much as I did because I normally criticize authors for trying to jam too much into one story and this book had a lot going on:
--shady business dealings
--corporate fraud
--murder
--religious fanaticism
--extramarital affairs
--Nazis
--casual sex
--creepy pervs
--violence against women
--money laundering
--sexual sadism
--political proselytizing
--dysfunctional family secrets
And that’s just scraping the surface. Because once Larsson got into it and started digging deeper into the plot and revealing more details, my head started spinning and I had smoke coming out of my ears. I wasn’t expecting to be sucked in so quickly by the plot and am still reeling over the fact that this brick-like book (my copy has nearly 600 pages) went as quickly as it did."
She might also suggest that a sunny climate in the south may get in your way, considering her personal connection to this book was by way of her ethnic background, but I'm neither Swedish nor from a northern state and had no trouble, as said in the last post. You might try moving your post to the main reviews, that is, if you still feel the same way by the middle of the book: or of the series, which may come fast! Enjoy it, anyway, no matter what the shortcomings, and don't let me argue you out of your response. No no.
