The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I'm going to quote one of my friends on this one: "I wish I liked this book even less than I do."
Firstly, it's dense. Nothing wrong with that in my world. I read classic Russian literature for the kick of it. The key word there is literature though. This is far from literature. It's shock fiction. Which I'm hit and miss on at the best of times. Very few authors are Thomas Harris and I accept that. But to sum up this one, it's dense fluff.
I didn't mind the angle on the financial journalism stuff, like a lot of people did. I'm pretty sure that this simply has to do with the fact I have a keen interest in journalism and the media and that's all there is to that.
Everything reaches it's logical conclusion and it's okay. There's a bit of gore and violence done in a good way. Not so over the top that it detracts from the story, not so underwhelming that it doesn't seem realistic. Not really anything spectacularly special though.
Honestly, my main problem with this story might be considered a bit personal. So, here's this main character with piercings and tattoos, who is a capable intelligent human being. So, clearly, SHE IS DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR. I find it personally frustrating when people read certain characters as "strong" when they are just stereotypical. It's not even that she has a troubled past. I could have lived with that. She has Aspergers and is prone to extreme violent fits and can't fit in with society. Yeah, we get it, people with tattoos and piercings clearly can't have all their processes working like people who don't. Except, here in the real world, they can and do.
Taking everything into consideration (outside of that last paragraph/soapbox I was standing on), I can't say that I would recommend this. I haven't seen the movie, but given that Fincher is an amazing director, I'm going to guess it's better to just watch that instead.
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