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. 

Whats happened

    
I'm reading a nonfiction book called “in the garden of the beasts" by Erik Larson

This book takes place during the 1930's so far. The two views we read threw are the views of William E. Dodd, the ambassador of the United States to Germany. He brings his family with including his daughter Martha. With these two different points of view you see different styles of narrative.

You read of how Martha describes people more vividly than Mr. Dodd on page 120 she describes Boris with "he had an unusual mouth and upper lips." it is an odd thing to notice in a person. While with Mr. Dodd you see more talk of character and less of their looks, you see this on page 158 which his when he meets Hitler. You get no discretion of his face but you get more of his character feel from his view.

                Also in the way that they write their figures of speech you see different tones from the two main points of few.  In Martha’s writing she uses a lot more metaphors and similes, while Mr. Dodd who before becoming an ambassador was a collage professor favors more the Allison style. An example of this Allison would be on page 157 where Dodd is visiting Hitler and compares how the SS men raise their hands to “Caesar Style”.

The book so far has been very good. To me it has opened my eyes a little more to the lead up of world war two in Europe.