My book group is reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo this month, and I had heard interesting reviews about the book (okay, review- singular. From Beth Boswell's blog). The story is about an unsolved mystery in Sweden, and the two unlikely people who are called upon to solve it: a journalist and a skinny, troubled hacker. The first 200 pages really dragged on, I thought. But then it picked up... in a most disturbing way. There are lots of accounts of sexual abuse throughout the book, and it just felt creepy to me. True, the pages started turning faster around page 300... all the way to the end (pg. 594).
There are two other books about these characters, and I won't be reading them. They're a bit too grisly for my taste. I don't want these images in my head. The author, Stieg Larsson died recently. So three books are all you get, even if you love the story.
Well written- definitely.
Intriguing- certainly.
Creepy- Yessir.
Three stars.
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Speaking of girls with dragon tattoo's. No... not me silly! I read a neat story about a chick who lost all of her hair while undergoing chemo because she had cancer. Anyways, the story goes she was tired of people feeling sorry for her so she got a giant dragon tattooed on top of her bald head and people quit feeling sorry for her, they actually thought she was just a bad A. She has since recovered, has a hair over her dragon and climbs some of the largest mountains in the world. Oh, wait ....she is a bad A! Love ya!
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