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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

Stieg Larsson,

Reg Keeland (Translator)

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Sep 27, 2013 Rebekah rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-book-club, genre-contemporary, genre-thriller, genre-novels, genre-adult, genre-adult-fiction, rating-4, genre-mystery-crime, genre-mystery, series

I attempted to read this book a few years ago when it was really popular and couldn't get past the first part. The pacing is a bit odd throughout. The first part is fairly boring, the middle is a gripping page-turner, and then somehow the climax follows with another pretty boring section to the end. It was hard to get into the foreign names and corporate shenanigans at the beginning. The Swedish title of this book is "Men Who Hate Women" and that is the more appropriate title. This book is distu ...more

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Feb 03, 2014 Neil rated it it was amazing

Shelves: thriller

I am giving it 5 stars because even though I'd seen the Daniel Craig version of the film I still found the book a compulsive page turner and was up in the middle of the night reading it. I know the time line of the story dictates it, but I still find it strange that the three resolutions to the story Martin/Harriet/Wennerstrom decrease in suspense giving a slightly anti-climatic finish to the book. ...more

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Sep 18, 2012 Lillian rated it really liked it

The story is entertaining but the characters are all fairly one dimensional. This is the best book of the series, however, and is a bit more solid than the two sequels.

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