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 What's the Swedish word for wow!? Sep 08, 2010
I admit I was late coming into the "girl" series from Stieg Larsson. I decided to give it a shot and finished within 24 hours. It was completely un-putdownable. The story and characters are both complex and layered but handled masterfully. Lisbeth Salander is and utterly fascinating leading lady, absolutely riveting and completely unapologetic. She is the kind of character that none of us know in real life, and we're not sure we would want to. She is brash, moral, complex, angry, flawed, and brilliant. Blomkvist is the perfect complement. He is also flawed and brilliant, and the forces that conspire to bring these two together are awesome.
Blomkvist is hired by an eccentric millionaire to write his family's complex biography, but with the secret mission of finding the man's niece, lost to him 40 years ago. Blomkvist is a fallen and disgraced journalist, having written an unsubstantiated article about the financial corruption of a billionaire. He decides to leave his newspaper for a sabbatical of sorts to give the scandal a chance to die down. He accepts the offer from Henrik Vanger, thinking the whole time that he will be able to make no headway. What he finds will change him and everyone around him forever.
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 What is all the fuss about!! Sep 08, 2010
I really thought I would like this book, since everyone I talked to loved it and couldn't wait to run out and buy the next ones to read. Not me, I found very little interesting in the book and don't understand what all the fuss is about. We read the book for our next book club meeting; it should an interesting book to discuss since people either like it or found it lacking.
A True Classic Sep 08, 2010
Larsson's ability to captivate the reader with wonderful character development and a dynamite story add up to a fantastic novel. Too bad he's not around to write more. Pulitzer Prize material.
 accidental best-seller Sep 08, 2010
Not even in the league with other Scandinavian mysteries. I'm thinking of the Wallender series and, even more, of Joe Nesbo's Harry Hole adventures. This is just a collage of adolescent clichés, post-modern pseudo intellectual rubbish that is eventually saved by a compelling set of good guys who do very little work to solve the mystery. To really get into the book you need to believe that justice ='s a female Scandinavian superhero and a lot of bumbling and totally unbelievable Swedish folk who are just too good to be true.
 why??????? Sep 07, 2010
Why the fuss over this standard, boring fiction? Why was it translated into English when you could just as easily grab a Clive Cussler and find the same set of characters: a protagonist who, besides his day job, is mostly moderate in every way and the objectified, horribly-portrayed cast of disposable female characters?
Plainly said: it's airport garbage fiction.
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