The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Jul 12, 2018 Tina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: best-read-in-2018

A crime with a deeper message.

I'm impressed in the moment, with the first few pages. In spite of some quite a lot of clichés, I'm completely attracted to the story. Difficult topic, it is quite unusual to be written by a male writer.

In the first half I was expecting a completely different story, which it developed later- specially at the very beginning, I was "misled." A lot of different things, many different events but everything is brilliantly conected. I don't even know what to add. Second b ...more

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Jun 20, 2022 Angie ☯ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: z-tower-teams-9-2022, z-uno-2025

The story revolves around Mikael Blomkvist, a fallen journalist who is hired by a rich old man to write a book about his crazy rich family, while secretly working to discover the truth about the disappearance and supposed murder of the man’s granddaughter.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, aka, Lisbeth Salander is a rebel and a bit of a badass. She is a freelance investigator and one of the best hackers in Sweden, and apparently has a hidden talent for solving old murders. I forgot to mention, pho ...more

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Apr 14, 2016 Susan rated it really liked it

Shelves: kick-ass-women, adventure-thriller, 2016, set-in-europe, mystery

I enjoyed this book. For the most part, I liked the main characters (or disliked the ones who were unlikeable).

Yes, the book started a bit slowly, had more words than it needed (I skimmed the detailed descriptions of the electronics), and contained people who seemed to consume nothing but sandwiches and coffee... But, this is a first book and virtually all first books have some bugs to work through.

On the other hand, the characters and plot were well-developed, there were some interesting side ...more

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