girl with the dragon tattoo...worth sticking with?

[mumatron]

what do you think?

this is the second time i have started, but just cant get into it.

no ..... i love books but gave up with this one!

I think it's worth sticking with for a bit longer, I found the start boring as well, but quite soon I got into it. Try for a while longer, if you don't like it after another 25 pages or so then just give up. I did end up enjoying the first one but haven't felt any compulsion to read any of the rest!

Yes. Brilliant. But I didn't struggle with it at all.

I inhaled it but can remember very little now. Enjoyed the first more than the following two but read them all very quickly.

First bit dull - then it picked up. Just finished the second - not well written and too much going on about coffee and bloody ikea.

janx strangely enough I live between a coffee shop and a bloody ikea. As I like to read books that transport me far away from my own experiences, this could be why I am not smitten by these

i was halfway through this book ( which i finished last week) before it became intresting.

i have the second book, and although i did love the plot and the story of the first ...when it eventually got into gear, i am having trouble strting the second book becuase i dont know if i can face reading lots of descriptive bollocks for half the book before it gets good.

but the book did turn out to be very good (the last half)

managed to finish it.

it was ok, not overly impressed tbh.

enjoyed the middle part, but found myself skipping parts at the end.

no massive suprises in there.

did not like salander. i couldn't work out if i was meant to feel sorry for her or respect her.

don't think i'll be getting any of the other books.

I've been thinking about why I hated this so much. I've decided it's because it feels as if it was written by a real nerd: the kind of person who catalogues his CDs and possibly writes down car registration numbers in a little notebook.

Custardo - I thought the same, but the second one sort of assumes you know all the details, so there is far less of the descriptions and its just straight in there, follow on, sort of, from the first one.

Well I am a nerd ghoul, so that might explain why I liked it . I found myself skimming over some of the descriptions I must admit, and glazing over at the Ikea catalogue sections. I also was very concerned over Scandinavian coffee abuse - was a serious amount of caffeine consumed in those books. It gave me the jitters just reading it!

I was disappointed - it was about 150 pages too long, turgidly written and had some gratuitously violent scenes which I felt had very misogynistic undertones to them.

We had a really good barney about this book at my local book club - 50:50 split between those who loved it and who hated it.

oh, and it's one of those books where a very normal sounding male middle aged journalist is incredibly sexually magnetic and irresistible and shags three women in the book... written by a male middle aged journalist...

I couldn't finish it either

Enjoyed the first one. The others have too much graphic detail to be enjoyable. I think maybe the books lose something in translation. The sentences aren't very exciting!

you have to get to the halfway point of book 1 then no matter how hard you try you won't be able to put it down. hang on in there!

Really found myself having to try to like it.
Good story which made it worth reading but there's just something a bit jarring about it (cant think of a better word, the opposite of a smooth read anyway). Could be a translation thing.
Have read the first and second books so cant be that bad!
If they were to discuss it on Sesame Street they would say "this book has been brought to you by the words Sandwiches, Coffee and Feminism".

atah i enjoyed the middle of the book, just the begining and the ending spoilt it.

i didn't see the point in having the big reveal wrt the murderer so far from the end. and it was just so obvious the girl was not dead. must admit i skimmed over most of it after that bit.

falling yes! the sandwiches! what was that all about. why did the author feel the need to tell us every filling? quite odd.

I'm halfway through now and am starting to enjoy it in a strange way. The geeky detail is bizarre. The second book is thicker. Maybe even more detail. Not just the sandwiches and the clothes. Last night I read that Lisbeth Salander had a computer which was such and such a model with these details and a thirty inch screen, manufactured in 2004. It's like reading a report.

sea sorry if i gave the ending away there

sea - i just thought he had made some kind of product placement deal.

No worries. When I was struggling with the first half (and Bloomkvist's quest for thermal underwear) I flicked ahead to see what happens!

My dh reckons 'no' and he stuck it out to the bitter end. I am not bothering to read it.

I found it amusingly bad, with its useless descriptions of computers (describing the full spec, fgs, who cares?, I thought it was product placement), the times the characters stop to drink coffee... At some point it describes to the reader what an mp3 player is! So badly written.
The plot is ridiculous too.