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

Oct 13, 2011 Jojobean rated it liked it

Shelves: 2008-publication, 3-star-ratings, adult-suspense-thriller-horror

This book was ok. I don't really get what the hype was with this book. For me it was kinda boring. There was so much background and so many Vanger family members that it was confusing. I liked the mystery with Harriet Vanger but I could of done without her father and brother, Martin, being pervs and nasty sadist serial killers. I was horrified reading those parts of the book. On the issue of Harriet Vanger running away I'm torn between Blomkvist's view of the situation and Salander's. I mean yes This book was ok. I don't really get what the hype was with this book. For me it was kinda boring. There was so much background and so many Vanger family members that it was confusing. I liked the mystery with Harriet Vanger but I could of done without her father and brother, Martin, being pervs and nasty sadist serial killers. I was horrified reading those parts of the book. On the issue of Harriet Vanger running away I'm torn between Blomkvist's view of the situation and Salander's. I mean yes I understand that she was raped by both her father and her brother and that she needed help. But I also agree with Salander, that if she would of told someone (like a police officer) then her brother could of been dealt with then and there and she could of saved who knows how many women from that sick bastard. I'm also kinda torn about how her brother reacted to Harriet killing their father. In the book Martin used the knowledge that she killed their father over her and she had to do whatever he said. I would of thought that Martin would have been afraid of Harriet especially after seeing her kill their father because that meant that Harriet coulda killed him too.

I also have to be honest that the whole situation with Wennerstrom was kinda confusing with all the bank accounts and companies and whatnot. I got the jist of it but I had to read those parts over to make sure I got what was going on.

My favorite character was Lisbeth. I liked how she took matters into her own hands and solved her own problems. I really couldn't see a reason for her rape in the book unless what she did to her guardian will come back to bite her in the next books. I did not like the fact that even though the title of the book is the girl with the dragon tattoo that Lisbeth was in fact not in the book until about two thirds into the book. I really like her character and I felt that she should of had a more prominent role in the book. Its is because I liker her so much that I will be continuing the series. I want to find out what happened to her to make her the way she is as well as if she and Blomkvist will end up together. ...more

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Jan 31, 2012 Avisek Bandyopadhyay rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Dec 16, 2011 Yvonne rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller

3.5 Stars The book was very long on narration and for a significant portion of it (over 50 percent in) the two main characters, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, have entirely separately storylines and do not meet each other. This makes the story very slow & difficult to get into at first. The story starts to liven up and become more interesting when Mikael & Lisbeth get together to try to solve a 30 year old mystery. The story does go on perhaps 100 pages too long and ends rather abruptly ...more

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May 20, 2011 Gina rated it did not like it

Shelves: mystery, financial-dillemas-fiction, politics-politicians

Even though I have marked this as Read, I didn't finish it. I got to page 190 and I just have no interest in this book. I am the type of person to read and finish something no matter what, but I really would rather watch dirt dry then read this book. I just don't see what the hype is all about! ...more

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