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May 07, 2010
El
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He slapped her hard. Salander opened her eyes wide, but before she could react, he grabbed her by the shoulder and threw her on to the bed. The violence caught her by surprise. When she tried to turn over, he pressed her down on the bed and straddled her.
That's just to give you a little taste of what one is dealing with by picking up this book. If you can handle that and the previous x amount of paragraphs and the following x amount of paragraphs, you're golden. If that sort of makes that thing ...more
Jun 16, 2010
Wealhtheow
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did not like it
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Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is charged with libel and decides to take some time off from his magazine. Instead, he works to find what happened to Harriet Vanger, the young niece of a wealthy CEO. Meanwhile, punky hacker Lisbeth Salander has her own investigations, which presumably eventually have something to do with Blomkvist and the Vanger family. I don't know, because I couldn't bear to finish this. It usually takes me about a day to read a book. It took me an entire month to slog through les
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Blomqvist, a finance journalist, after being indicted for libel against the powerful Wennerstrom company, is hired by the head of the widespread Vanger Corporation to investigate the disappearance of his niece Harriet, which occurred over 30 years ago. Along the way Blomqvist hires a top-notch private investigator, Lisbeth Salander, to help him with the case.
This was a book I wanted to read before watching any of the movies, and though the Swedish version has been out for a while, I never really ...more
This was a book I wanted to read before watching any of the movies, and though the Swedish version has been out for a while, I never really ...more
All people in Sweden do is drink coffee and eat open-faced sandwiches. That's what I learned from this book.
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I wonder if the people who gush about Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, are the types who skim over boring parts and just read the good stuff. I'm not like that. When I think about how much I like the book, I think of the whole book, all 576 pages, having read and digested every word on every page.
I would have stopped reading around page 80, or page 120, or page 200 (I kept considering it), if it hadn't been for the fact that this was a book selection for my real-life book club. Around page 250 it a ...more
I would have stopped reading around page 80, or page 120, or page 200 (I kept considering it), if it hadn't been for the fact that this was a book selection for my real-life book club. Around page 250 it a ...more
this is a murder mystery with a whole lotta rape, with a little bit of that hackers movie mixed in just for kicks. kind of made me want to live in a cottage on some swedish island. other than that, it was one small step up from watching tv, i guess. it was entertaining in a sense. i didn't find it exactly thrilling, but it passed the time.
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Lurid. Enjoyable.
What more do you want?
What more do you want?
Very fun.
It certainly lived up to the hype.
Really enjoyable and one of the most intricate mysteries/suspense stories I have read in a while. I wasn't expecting a few of the plot twists. The writing was slightly awkward at times, but this could be because it has been translated from Swedish. I am definitely looking forward to picking up the sequel.
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