lieslindi 's review for:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy by Stieg Larsson

2.0

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I thought that this book got hype because it was groundbreaking or dramatic in some way. It wasn't. Instead of Sherlock Holmes's observations of different kinds of tobacco ash or Encyclopedia Brown knowing that a polar bear and a penguin do not belong in the same geographical exhibit, Lisbeth Salander's shtick is that she is a genius computer hacker, with contacts around the globe despite having no social skills, *and* has a photographic memory, *and,* despite minimal schooling, speaks at least two non-native languages (though Norwegian is maybe not so foreign for a Swede?) with her German unaccented. She's a fun character but she suffers from severe protagonistitis.