Author: Stieg Larsson
Published: September 16th 2008 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Rating: 1/5
Goodreads Summary: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Review:
I found it really hard to read this book. There was a lot of un necessary details, which just made the book longer than it should have been. It took me about 200 pages to get through the character introductions and back story, which i majorly skimmed. Once I got to the actual mystery I stopped skimming until I got to more un necessary detail. Really, I don't care that Blomkvist made two sandwiches and a coffee to then decide that he didn't want it. This wasn't a book I could curl up in bed with, with the tv on in the background. I needed absolute quiet because it was hard to concentrate on. I had considered giving up countless times, but I kept on reading because I was curious to see if I was right as to who did it. Once the mystery was solved and the book went back into the un necessary details, I very much skimmed to the end because I just wanted to be done with it. So I guess you could say, that I think this book sucks. I will however attempt the second book as, it sounds to be a bit more interesting.
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