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I was rather disapointed with this book. I tried to ignore all the hype but some of my friends who have similar reading tasts like this book a lot. Now I am left wondering if they actually read this book, just parts of the book or at all.
The first twenty pages were great and had me hooked. Followed by 200-300 pages of horribly written background dreak. These 200 pages often repeated the same information but presented the information from a different character. This pattern reminded me a lot of m ...more
The first twenty pages were great and had me hooked. Followed by 200-300 pages of horribly written background dreak. These 200 pages often repeated the same information but presented the information from a different character. This pattern reminded me a lot of m ...more
Holy shit. It's like Angels and Demons - minus the Vatican, adding more piercings, replacing Italy for Sweden, shifting violence from cardinals to women, and with a dash of IKEA to boot. Lisbeth Salander is a bad-ass. Mikael Blomkvist is a boss. I couldn't stop reading it - I stayed up until four in the morning, knowing full well I had to get up at 7. So, yes, the five star rating might be a little ambitious, but seeing as how I just got 3 hours of sleep and I'm still trying to process and absor
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is an easy read despite the length. There were several things I liked about this book: the mention of controversial religious passages, the political points, the easy pervasiveness of misogyny which is ignored. I like the issues he raises. I even enjoyed the characters, especially because none of them were really saints.
I haven't read many thrillers, and am not interested in them in general. However, I think that Dan Brown is more challenging and there are others ...more
I haven't read many thrillers, and am not interested in them in general. However, I think that Dan Brown is more challenging and there are others ...more
I read this on a family trip to California last summer and I really enjoyed it. The beginning "set up" was a little hard to get through but I perservered and was glad I did. What a meticulously written story. So many people on my trip in the airport, on the planes, at the beach... would see that bright yellow covered book I was carrying and immediately come over to talk about it because they were reading it too. I liked the second story better, but this Book 1 got me hooked on the series.
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It took a little while for me to really get hooked on this book, but it was well worth sticking with! An incredible page-turner, particularly in the second half -- super suspenseful and keeps you guessing. (Be warned, there are some disturbing/violent scenes.) Lisbeth Salander is definitely one of my new favorite fictional characters! I'll definitely be reading the rest of the series.
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It started slow, and a few times I almost gave it up. But I kept going, and gradually the momentum built until I had difficulty putting the book down. A drawback is my own ignorance of financial crime, so what seemed like a critical passage close to the end went right over my head. That aside, I enjoyed this novel thoroughly. I might even read #2 one of these days.
Great, it exceeded my -already high- expectations!
Nov 18, 2010
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