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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
Vangers - there are lots of them. Vangers, Vangers, Vangers. It's a big family. There's this stupid journalist. He's a callous womaniser. He got done for libel, deservedly. Did I mention that there are lots of Vangers? There's a mis-understood young woman who's been failed by the system. She's got a poor grip on the concept of privacy. Vangers. One of the Vangers went missing decades ago. There are lots of Vangers, you know.
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You know, say what you want about the crap translaton and the extraneous information, but the guy knew how to write a good thriller.
RIVETING!! Best book for an airplane journey I have ever found. Keeps me completely distracted during the flight so I do not notice the little bumps and dips.
Better than I had expected. (The next two are better, but I wouldn't recommend reading them without having read this one as background).
“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
Wow. Stieg Larsson did it again. He took my breath away.
Larsson's style of writing is unique. It is so very detailed and everything seems to be perfectly planned.
The characters are diverse and interesting and I am not only talking about Lisbeth Salander, the novel's heroine, but about most side characters as well.
This novel is full of nerve-wracking suspense and thrill, especially the beginning and the middle.
However, I wanted the novel to end faster. For my taste the finale didn't have to be a hundred pages long.
Still, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a more than worthy sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Wow. Stieg Larsson did it again. He took my breath away.
Larsson's style of writing is unique. It is so very detailed and everything seems to be perfectly planned.
The characters are diverse and interesting and I am not only talking about Lisbeth Salander, the novel's heroine, but about most side characters as well.
This novel is full of nerve-wracking suspense and thrill, especially the beginning and the middle.
However, I wanted the novel to end faster. For my taste the finale didn't have to be a hundred pages long.
Still, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a more than worthy sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The plot was captivating even if the writing wasn't the best, but overall it's a really good book.
Now I know the most effective way to nail feet to the floor. Lets hope that doesn't come in handy.
Brilliantly written in a style that kept me completely hooked even through the (incredibly rare) slow scenes, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was unlike any thriller I've ever picked up. I do not normally read thrillers since I like to sleep at night, so I was worried when I started to get to the more nightmarish sections of the story. However, Stieg Larsson somehow managed to portray the brutality while still allowing me, as the reader, to stay sane. I think the fact that the book was about more than a potential murder mystery contributed to that.
I am not sure that I will read the other books in this series, because the dark parts were almost more than I could bear as a more sensitive individual for one thing and as a woman for another, given that most of the brutality occurs against women.
Still, this was a remarkably well written book with fascinating characters.
I am not sure that I will read the other books in this series, because the dark parts were almost more than I could bear as a more sensitive individual for one thing and as a woman for another, given that most of the brutality occurs against women.
Still, this was a remarkably well written book with fascinating characters.
Finally. It wasn't that bad, but something about it just stated to fizzle out the more I turned the page. The guy has problems writing people's emotions and sometimes lingers on unnecessary details (like computer specs) which both make for unintentionally comic moments. Satisfying end, even though that too dragged.
The ending made me shivered. I want a closure. I REALLY want that. Even the incident with one of the guys from Milton Security didn't have the closure that I wanted. The part when Bublanski found out and told everyone was so great though.
It took quite long for me to finish this book. Larsson took time to build the current world of Salander, but it is still enjoyable to read. My one complaint is that Blomkvist being portrayed as a sex god and he's even good with math??? Those traits doesn't even really contribute to the story.
Other thing: I just realized that this book was published in 2009, where a lot of people, including me, didn't really understand about misogynist behavior. Like, as a woman, I'd feel uncomfortable or pissed off with people that are casually misogynistic daily, but I didn't know that that behavior is misogynistic and that the cause is so systemic. So, props for Larsson, I guess.
The first book of this trilogy shook me so much that I couldn't read the second book (this book) until a couple years later. But this book didn't discomfort me as much as the first one.
It took quite long for me to finish this book. Larsson took time to build the current world of Salander, but it is still enjoyable to read. My one complaint is that Blomkvist being portrayed as a sex god and he's even good with math??? Those traits doesn't even really contribute to the story.
Other thing: I just realized that this book was published in 2009, where a lot of people, including me, didn't really understand about misogynist behavior. Like, as a woman, I'd feel uncomfortable or pissed off with people that are casually misogynistic daily, but I didn't know that that behavior is misogynistic and that the cause is so systemic. So, props for Larsson, I guess.
The first book of this trilogy shook me so much that I couldn't read the second book (this book) until a couple years later. But this book didn't discomfort me as much as the first one.