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itsdanysbooks's review
5.0
aach to bol zatial najlepsi graficky roman, aky som citala. ostatne mali bud prilis zrychleny pribeh, boli skaredo nakreslene, alebo ma nebavili. toto bolo super!
misterjay's review
3.0
I'm always a little leery of overly adapted stories. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has, counting this one, been adapted three times over the past few years, so I was even more cautious than usual before picking up this graphic adaptation.
The art and production values are gorgeous and the story choices (what to use from the novel, what to cut) are well made thoughtfully made. However, the book suffers from the reader already being too familiar with the book. What should be shocking or interesting is just another version of something that I, at least, have already read once and seen twice.
I think if I had gotten to this graphic novel before having seen either of the movie adaptations, I would like it quite a bit more. As it is, it's a beautifully made comic, and great for completists and collectors, but it's a story that is already too-familiar and suffers for that.
The art and production values are gorgeous and the story choices (what to use from the novel, what to cut) are well made thoughtfully made. However, the book suffers from the reader already being too familiar with the book. What should be shocking or interesting is just another version of something that I, at least, have already read once and seen twice.
I think if I had gotten to this graphic novel before having seen either of the movie adaptations, I would like it quite a bit more. As it is, it's a beautifully made comic, and great for completists and collectors, but it's a story that is already too-familiar and suffers for that.
brittrivera's review
2.0
Having read the entire "Girl" series and seen both versions of the film (each are great in their own different way), I can say I was disappointed with this graphic novel version. I appreciate the attempt at visualization and some panels were really well done, but it glosses over many important story points and will be confusing for anyone who has never read the book before. I say watch the movie if anything since the books are rather dense; reading this version will only give you the sparknotes version of the story.
singh_reads_kanwar2's review
5.0
The girl with dragon tattoo
This book is first of its kind of thriller as our both protagonist are in search of truth behind the disappearance of rich Man daughter and soon both find ways they meet, and then they were hired to find it as it's been 40 years nobody able to find her, so things start unveiling and truth started to resurface, show the character of girl with the dragon tattoo , who is hacker and very able detective and she and mikael blomkvist, able to locate her and also locate an abusive family member who treat womans like trash and she ran away from that place because of such incident and by fooling everyone about she died mysterious but they found her and bring her back to her family and unite them.
Both our protagonist have a fight to survive and girl with difficult past take reign of her life in her hands and what she does in case this is all about her love, her relationship, her active sex life, an abusive guardian alloted by govt. Because of her tough past.
She did a fabulous job and help Mikael to take on his rival out of business and it was a success.
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This book is first of its kind of thriller as our both protagonist are in search of truth behind the disappearance of rich Man daughter and soon both find ways they meet, and then they were hired to find it as it's been 40 years nobody able to find her, so things start unveiling and truth started to resurface, show the character of girl with the dragon tattoo , who is hacker and very able detective and she and mikael blomkvist, able to locate her and also locate an abusive family member who treat womans like trash and she ran away from that place because of such incident and by fooling everyone about she died mysterious but they found her and bring her back to her family and unite them.
Both our protagonist have a fight to survive and girl with difficult past take reign of her life in her hands and what she does in case this is all about her love, her relationship, her active sex life, an abusive guardian alloted by govt. Because of her tough past.
She did a fabulous job and help Mikael to take on his rival out of business and it was a success.
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caszriel's review
4.0
Okay so I've been meaning to read this series for forever (and by forever I mean like, pre-2013, which is extremely forever in my mind) and unfortunately it hasn't happened yet, but I recently got out the first book from the library (though due to Goodreads challenge logistics I did read this graphic novel first and I know I always say adaptations before originals is bad but I couldn't help it). Anyway, my faux pas aside I'm super intrigued by the graphic novel and even more resolute in wanting to read the books, because a lot of the events in the graphic novel happened fast fast and I know they'll be drawn out and explored in more detail in the books.
justiceofkalr's review
2.0
Okay, so I haven't read the books. Only watched the Swedish movies. So I can't really compare this to the novels. But... this adaptation seemed seriously lacking. The art on the cover looks pretty interesting, part of why I picked it up, but the actual art itself in the graphic novel was boring and generic. There were so many cool things they could have done with the art/style to match the tone of this book, but instead they did nothing. Which I feel like is the whole point of making a graphic novel adaptation. If you're not going to utilize the medium, then why bother?
In addition I felt like this volume kind of cut off weirdly. Lizbeth and Mikael are both basically doing their separate things here. Mikael is starting to work on the Vanger murder mystery and Lizbeth is dealing with her slimeball guardian. Lizbeth's story gets some resolution by the end of volume, but it felt like Mikael spent the whole volume doing... nothing. Having not read the books I have no idea if this is how things actually happen, but it felt like the movie moved at a much better pace.
It's doubtful that I'll bother with any more of this. I seem to be consistently disappointed by graphic novel adaptations. Maybe I should just give up on them and save myself the annoyance.
In addition I felt like this volume kind of cut off weirdly. Lizbeth and Mikael are both basically doing their separate things here. Mikael is starting to work on the Vanger murder mystery and Lizbeth is dealing with her slimeball guardian. Lizbeth's story gets some resolution by the end of volume, but it felt like Mikael spent the whole volume doing... nothing. Having not read the books I have no idea if this is how things actually happen, but it felt like the movie moved at a much better pace.
It's doubtful that I'll bother with any more of this. I seem to be consistently disappointed by graphic novel adaptations. Maybe I should just give up on them and save myself the annoyance.
goodbetterbetsy's review
2.0
I think this will be a popular option for people who really want to read the book but can't get past the first 100 pages or so.
jupiterlee's review
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, and Gore