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

Stieg Larsson,

Reg Keeland (Translator)

Start date: September 17, 2018

Finish date: October 1, 2018

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Why we're reading this: The next novel set for Kurt and Justin's insightful analysis, and their first taste of Scandinavian crime…more
[close] The next novel set for Kurt and Justin's insightful analysis, and their first taste of Scandinavian crime.

This is not a typical featured text for Point Blank in that it is neither hardboiled nor noir, per se, but Nordic Noir is an important sub-genre of crime fiction and a gateway for many people.

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Aug 27, 2017 William rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I saw the original films, then read this book, then saw the USA version film.

I loved all of them, except the USA film ending which sucked bad.

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Jan 15, 2019 Rob rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: noir

Fairly decent story, but large portions poorly written. Too much detail about the food people ate for lunch, when it was not even necessary to mention that they had eaten anything at all. Plenty of other uninteresting details like this. Comic book style villain. Very uneven tone. The denouement was boring - reminded me of the Lord of the Rings after the Hobbits return to the Shire at the end of their adventure. Most of the sexual relationships in the book seemed both implausible and uninterestin ...more

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