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I understand the Swedish title translates into the The Men Who Hate Women. That is a more appropriate title. Though, I would imagine such a title would hurt sales in England and the USA. Each part has a statistic regarding violence against women in Sweden. I was not quite prepared for this. A very faithful to the book movie would be NC-17.
Reading the graphic violence made me feel sad. Also difficult is the intertwining of attraction and love with hurt and anger. The hero and heroine are tragic-i ...more
Reading the graphic violence made me feel sad. Also difficult is the intertwining of attraction and love with hurt and anger. The hero and heroine are tragic-i ...more
I must not be drawn to books with a yellow cover. That's my only explanation for why I checked this book out of the library three times before I got around to reading it. Oh sure, I read all of the fabulous reviews that have been coming out for about a year. I heard the really sad story of the author turning in this manuscript and two others to complete the trilogy, then dying of a heart attack before the first book was published. Then, on a rainy evening, I finally opened the book and the world
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This book didn't get good until about half-way through. And it seriously was a complete drag just to get to the half-way point. I get that Larsson had to lay down the family history, but I didn't think much of it was that relevant and rather fillers. But once I passed that threshold point, it got good and interesting.
I thought that the story had decent spins and mysteries to it. When you thought it was something, Larsson took it to a slightly different direction than I had expected. The story wa ...more
I thought that the story had decent spins and mysteries to it. When you thought it was something, Larsson took it to a slightly different direction than I had expected. The story wa ...more
Swedish Dan Brown. I enjoyed it. Started Monday morning. Finished this morning (I was on holiday at Santa Barbara, so that helped to clear 450 pages). It's descriptions are graphic (Very). What I didn't like was that Mikael Blomkvist was this suave womanizer without trying, yet, the story was about abusing and murdering women in very gruesome ways. I'm not really sure what connection I'm making but it does not sit well with me. Besides that, I look forward to reading "The Girl Who Played With Fi
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Good mystery, average writing. Last section of the book left me puzzled.
Despite what I read, the beginning wasn't even slow for me; I loved the book from the beginning and had me mesmerized. Just when one thinks the mystery is solved, another twist in the mystery.
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A fun thriller. Definite page turner. The main character appeared to be the author's fantasy-self and it was funny to see what he thought a cool guy was like/would do.
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Fantastic writing, character development, good mystery.
May be better as audio. Loved it both ways.
Nov 03, 2008
Kerstin
marked it as to-read
Aug 18, 2009
Tori
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it was amazing
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Sep 30, 2010
Tiffany
marked it as to-read
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Jun 18, 2011
Andrea
marked it as to-read
