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Books : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Rating: 
- Good read
Took awhile to understand the numerous characters in the family but once I got passed the first 25+ pages and flipping back and forth to the family tree, I was totally intrigued. Very good story and couldn't wait to pick up the book to read more. Good writer and storyteller. Highly recommend.
Rating:
- Difficult themes, smartly written and tightly plotted with one of the most interesting heroines in in recent memory.
Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", the first of a trilogy of thrillers, comes to our shores highly praised by all the lucky Europeans who have had their hands on it since 2007. It is a fantastic read because it is multi-layered, suspenseful and mysterious.
The two main characters, Lisbeth Salander and Carl Mikael Blomkvist, circle around each other for the first half of the book, after which they actually meet and their stories converge. While the backbone mystery of the book involves the disappearance of a young Harriet Vanger, Larsson intertwines this story with multiple other themes including corporate corruption, journalistic ethics, violence against women and mass murder.
When the book ends, the Vanger mysteries are solved satisfactorily, if gruesomely. And yet, I found myself securely hooked and waiting for the second book. The history and motivation of Lisbeth Salander remain so mysterious. She is on top of a short list of the most interesting characters of my recent fiction forays.
If you like smart books, mysteries or suspense and can handle reading about terrible things like rape and murder, this book is more than worth it.
Rating: - Perfect gift
So, here's a short story: My mom e-mails me with the subject, "I want the book, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" for Christmas." That's it. Nothing in the body. She obviously wanted this. Me, being her daughter in college, thought that a book would be cheap. I signed onto my Amazon.com account, typed in the title, found the book, clicked buy, and it arrived a few days later! So simple, so efficient. Amazon has helped me with many products and many more to come!
Rating:
- Great buildup, absurd ending
Many of the people who reviewed this book have given a basic description of the plot, which is complex but reasonably easy to follow. What few people have addressed however, is the completely over-the-top climax and ending, which pretty much negates the intriguing story that came before.
This reminds me in some ways of another very well-reviewed book, "The Good Thief." That's another book that was beautifully written with fascinating characters that went badly out of control towards the end, as if the author just wanted to finish writing and didn't care about the investment of time and energy on the readers' part. As long as she could get to the words "The End," maintaining the story's integrity just didn't matter past a certain point.
In much the same way, the last quarter of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," including the climax, ended up being ridiculous and completely over-the-top. Believing for hundreds of pages that I was in the hands of a master storyteller I feel cheated, both by the author and by the reviewers in major publications who fell all over themselves praising this book.
Rating: - Exquisitely beautiful, a mystery of the human spirit set in Sweden
Since the plot of this book has been described in detail in other reviews, I will refrain from that in my review. Upon reflection, after finishing this book, I decided that part of its appeal lies in the fact that many if not most of human drives and emotions are present somewhere in the story: greed. lust, love, revenge, sadism, sloth, political extremism, fear, and deceit, among others. The author combines all these good and bad human traits into a lyrically-written mystery with overtones of irony and undercurrents of violence. The book is well-organized, too, which makes it eminently readable. There is a flow to the words that is addictive: when you add that to the story, the result is a marvelous read. It's tragic that the author passed away several years ago, although I understand several additional books may be published. I hope some of the same characters are in the later books, too.
- Good readTook awhile to understand the numerous characters in the family but once I got passed the first 25+ pages and flipping back and forth to the family tree, I was totally intrigued. Very good story and couldn't wait to pick up the book to read more. Good writer and storyteller. Highly recommend.
Rating:
- Difficult themes, smartly written and tightly plotted with one of the most interesting heroines in in recent memory. Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", the first of a trilogy of thrillers, comes to our shores highly praised by all the lucky Europeans who have had their hands on it since 2007. It is a fantastic read because it is multi-layered, suspenseful and mysterious.
The two main characters, Lisbeth Salander and Carl Mikael Blomkvist, circle around each other for the first half of the book, after which they actually meet and their stories converge. While the backbone mystery of the book involves the disappearance of a young Harriet Vanger, Larsson intertwines this story with multiple other themes including corporate corruption, journalistic ethics, violence against women and mass murder.
When the book ends, the Vanger mysteries are solved satisfactorily, if gruesomely. And yet, I found myself securely hooked and waiting for the second book. The history and motivation of Lisbeth Salander remain so mysterious. She is on top of a short list of the most interesting characters of my recent fiction forays.
If you like smart books, mysteries or suspense and can handle reading about terrible things like rape and murder, this book is more than worth it.
Rating:
- Perfect giftSo, here's a short story: My mom e-mails me with the subject, "I want the book, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" for Christmas." That's it. Nothing in the body. She obviously wanted this. Me, being her daughter in college, thought that a book would be cheap. I signed onto my Amazon.com account, typed in the title, found the book, clicked buy, and it arrived a few days later! So simple, so efficient. Amazon has helped me with many products and many more to come!
Rating:
- Great buildup, absurd endingMany of the people who reviewed this book have given a basic description of the plot, which is complex but reasonably easy to follow. What few people have addressed however, is the completely over-the-top climax and ending, which pretty much negates the intriguing story that came before.
This reminds me in some ways of another very well-reviewed book, "The Good Thief." That's another book that was beautifully written with fascinating characters that went badly out of control towards the end, as if the author just wanted to finish writing and didn't care about the investment of time and energy on the readers' part. As long as she could get to the words "The End," maintaining the story's integrity just didn't matter past a certain point.
In much the same way, the last quarter of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," including the climax, ended up being ridiculous and completely over-the-top. Believing for hundreds of pages that I was in the hands of a master storyteller I feel cheated, both by the author and by the reviewers in major publications who fell all over themselves praising this book.
Rating:
- Exquisitely beautiful, a mystery of the human spirit set in SwedenSince the plot of this book has been described in detail in other reviews, I will refrain from that in my review. Upon reflection, after finishing this book, I decided that part of its appeal lies in the fact that many if not most of human drives and emotions are present somewhere in the story: greed. lust, love, revenge, sadism, sloth, political extremism, fear, and deceit, among others. The author combines all these good and bad human traits into a lyrically-written mystery with overtones of irony and undercurrents of violence. The book is well-organized, too, which makes it eminently readable. There is a flow to the words that is addictive: when you add that to the story, the result is a marvelous read. It's tragic that the author passed away several years ago, although I understand several additional books may be published. I hope some of the same characters are in the later books, too.