Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo



I just finished a good book today. It was called “The girl with the dragon tattoo  by Stieg Larsson. This is in the fiction crime drama genre. It tells the tale of a Swedish journalist who goes on the hunt for an missing family member of a rich family, the “Vanger “clan. They are in this book one of the wealthiest families in Sweden.  He gains a help from a hacker named Lisbeth  Salander, who has a past of her own which she tries to hid from.


Personally I didn’t like the beginning or most of the middle part of the book. It starts very slow and you get a lot of characters who just overwhelm you with too much information.  The characters over time are developed well but it is very slowly.  Once you get to the end of the book its starts getting really good, there is black mail, intrigue and murder that you find out that was happening threw out the book whil you were wondering when was something going to happen.


The next book in the trilogy is “the girl who played with fire”. I hope it will start faster than this one, but be just as good in reading.
 To compare it to the last book I read it would be very different.  The last book I read was nonfiction work and set in the world of Nazi Germany before world war II. The Girl with the dragon tattoo is set in Sweden and is a work of fiction.  They are similar in that they both deal with on very crazy person who gained a lot of power. One was Martin Vanger from the girl with the dragon tattoo and from in the garden of the beasts you have Hitler. 

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