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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Me perturbo de una manera densa, pero la historia en torno al misterio considero que es buena
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This novel is the best book I've read so far this year, and will be a tough title to beat, although I have hope for the sequels. But I wonder if they won't seem contrived, like [a:Dan Brown|630|Dan Brown|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1206553442p2/630.jpg]'s Robert Langdon books, since one of my favorite things about this book was how organic the detective aspect came about. I am looking forward to finding out.
Not only was the story, the writing, and the translation phenomenal, the narration -- by [a:Simon Vance|5602|Simon Vance|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1240014151p2/5602.jpg], who also narrates [a:Ian Fleming|2565|Ian Fleming|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1364532740p2/2565.jpg]'s James Bond stories -- was top notch. Vance has quickly become my favorite audiobook narrator.
Not only was the story, the writing, and the translation phenomenal, the narration -- by [a:Simon Vance|5602|Simon Vance|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1240014151p2/5602.jpg], who also narrates [a:Ian Fleming|2565|Ian Fleming|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1364532740p2/2565.jpg]'s James Bond stories -- was top notch. Vance has quickly become my favorite audiobook narrator.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A guilty pleasure book that I read when I don't feel like reading anything else. I enjoyed the financial journalism element. While the middle of the book is a bit slow, overall the ending is worth the drudgery.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
I picked this book up at my hotel in Istanbul, only because I'd read the others and those which I hadn't, were in Turkish. I had never come across this title before, didn't know the hype that surrounded it, nor did I know it was part of a popular series. So it was refreshing to just pick up a book and get into it without checking it out here and gauging other reader reviews.
It didn't start out well for me, as I was bored a few chapters into the novel. I didn't get back to it until a few days later when our tour operators were late picking us up and that's when I really got into the story. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a crime/thriller (a genre I hadn't visited in a while), revolves around the disappearance of a young woman 40 years ago. A financial journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, recently convicted of libel is manipulated to look into the disappearance of Harriet Vanger by her uncle, Henrik Vanger. The Girl, Lisbeth Salander, fits into this story as the research assistant hired by Blomkvist to help him on the investigation.
The book's a page-turner with an engaging plot and complex characters. From crooked industrialists to hackers to sadists, the book has them all. Salander is probably the most interesting character; diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and with a very fuzzy past, she comes off as a distant and fierce person used to having her own way.
But this thriller loses out on that one star because of the textbook-like passages that kept getting in the way of the story. It's graphically violent too at times but on the whole it's a brilliant novel which was very difficult to put down.
It didn't start out well for me, as I was bored a few chapters into the novel. I didn't get back to it until a few days later when our tour operators were late picking us up and that's when I really got into the story. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a crime/thriller (a genre I hadn't visited in a while), revolves around the disappearance of a young woman 40 years ago. A financial journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, recently convicted of libel is manipulated to look into the disappearance of Harriet Vanger by her uncle, Henrik Vanger. The Girl, Lisbeth Salander, fits into this story as the research assistant hired by Blomkvist to help him on the investigation.
The book's a page-turner with an engaging plot and complex characters. From crooked industrialists to hackers to sadists, the book has them all. Salander is probably the most interesting character; diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and with a very fuzzy past, she comes off as a distant and fierce person used to having her own way.
But this thriller loses out on that one star because of the textbook-like passages that kept getting in the way of the story. It's graphically violent too at times but on the whole it's a brilliant novel which was very difficult to put down.