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I really enjoyed this book. I had a lot of people telling me they had heard bad things about it so I admit that I did feel a little nervous at first. But for me the story moved smoothly and the plot was excellent. There were some more graphic and violent scenes that probably turned off the readers who didn't like the book, but to me it didn't outweigh the good writing. It's hard to review a translated book and say that the writer is excellent, but I assume that the translator stayed true to form
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As thrillers / mysteries go this is pretty well written. It starts off slowly because we need to get considerable background to set up the scheme. But after about 100 pages it really takes off. Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist specializing in financial matters, teams with Lisbeth Salander, a young genius at computer hacking, to investigate the 30-year-old disappearance of the young heiress of a major corporate dynasty. I thought there were several extraneous plot points that added little to the ma
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Excellent story, a little slow to start but sucked me in and kept me going until the end. I had avoided it believing it was another mainstream Oprah-inspired touching story about nothing. (I love Oprah and think her having a book club is fabulous, but most of the books sound boring.) I'm so glad I was wrong! I learned a lot, too, like the horrible sounding things Swedes apparently eat and that in Sweden, you can schedule jail time and take holidays from it. I did figure out the larger mystery by
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Wow.
I have been avoiding this book / series because I heard that there’s some serious level of violence in it. However I found that it’s barely 1% of the book and I could just skim the page onto the next bit and not missed much at all. I found the first few chapters a bit slow so I couldn’t get into it until a bit later but once the first hint of the mystery was mentioned, I was hooked. Let’s just say that it was a marvellous modern mystery novel and I was totally engrossed and loved it.
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I have been avoiding this book / series because I heard that there’s some serious level of violence in it. However I found that it’s barely 1% of the book and I could just skim the page onto the next bit and not missed much at all. I found the first few chapters a bit slow so I couldn’t get into it until a bit later but once the first hint of the mystery was mentioned, I was hooked. Let’s just say that it was a marvellous modern mystery novel and I was totally engrossed and loved it.
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Very readable, not sure what the fuss is about.
May 09, 2010
Amy ~Lover of Books~
marked it as to-read
Oct 07, 2020
Misty
rated it
it was amazing
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Jul 17, 2010
Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)
marked it as to-read
Nov 16, 2012
Chrystal
marked it as to-read
