The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson


Nearly everyone who recommended this book to me warned me that it is a slow starter.  It is.  I was over 50 pages into it before it really sparked my interest.

The first (and slower) part of the story is also the last part to be resolved so it sort of bookends the main story involving an older mystery.  Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young girl 40 years in the past and in the process uncovers a dysfunctional family's generations of dark secrets.

I found the story to be good, but not really up to the hype that seems to be surrounding the book.  I don't know if something was lost in translation (the book was originally written in Swedish) but the writing just didn't seem to be particularly compelling.  However, the story eventually became interesting enough, especially peppered with bits of Swedish culture, to keep my interest and also make me want to read the sequels.


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