Started reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo the other night...

[lucysmam]

I got maybe 10 or so pages through it on my Kindle but it bored me & couldn't keep me interested. Does it get better? I expected to be really into it after seeing the advert for the film full of action

Yes it does get better. The beginning is really tedious, I'm afraid, all about the Wennerstrom stuff, but you do need to read that as the book returns to it towards the end. Stick with it, it gets really good. I'm looking forward to seeing the film.

I'm glad I'm not the only one, I started one I could get through in a couple of evenings after ploughing through that so will finish that off & re-visit it again.

Keep going!
Don't worry too much about the names for now
It gets so good you won't be able to put it down!

I nearly gave up, what with all the difficult to remember swedish names, many that seem very alike. Plus all the Wennerstrom stuff.

But it does get very edge-of-seat later on when the pace speeds up.

I'm onto the second book now and finding it a bit slow too, but will stick with it in the hope it is as good as the last.

I started it the other week and felt you. But now past page 200 and gripped. It's all I want to do - go and read a few more chapters. Keep going. It's getting better and better.

I can only agree. The book is fabulous. The kids didn't like me reading it as I hated any interruptions - ooopps! What?? You need dinner/ juice / bed , really?? Just a few pages more.....................

It takes ages to get going - I don't think things really started happening until half way through. It's quite good though.

Just finished it this morning, really enjoyed it but agree it only gets going mid way.

Oh bugger... I felt LIKE you. Not I felt you.

That would be rude, I don't know you.

I second all above comments, all the very similar names nearly drove me demented, but it soon has you gripped.

I found reading book 3 in the series, on a kindle a nightmare as I couldn't flip back & forth quite so easily to do a quick name check.

Andiree I was the same with mine.....

" What ?? Hmm? WHAT??!!

Yes, keep going! I'm dreading starting book 2 though as my bosses (who incidentally bought me the trilogy) told me the second book isn't all that great but you need to read it for the third book.

Just to echo what everybody else has said, keep going.
Liz Salander rocks .

Just to echo what everybody else has said, keep going.
Liz Salander rocks .

Stick with it! And don't start reading book two without having a copy of book three handy because I finished the second and had to wait until the next day to go out and buy book three and I really wanted to begin it straight away but couldn't!

Bored all the way through it tbh, mate raved about it.but just not my cuppa tea at all.

I'm going to stick with it too then. I was a bit when I started it. Thanks for this post OP.

Absolutely keep going. I felt the same at the beginning but once I got into it I couldn't put it down! All three books are excellent. Really loved the characters.

Wow, so many saying keep going so I'm going to go back to it tonight....when there are no interruptions from small people I hate reading when they're around, can't concentrate properly on what I'm doing

It does sometimes drag but well worth the read. I have read ( well listened on audio books) to all three books, they were fantastic.

I hated it - the character of Lisbet is excellent, but the story - the stuff of nightmares.

seriously yes you are right but strangley compelling too....couldn't put it down!

Bossybritches22 - that scene in the middle with Creepface (you know the one), and the revelations near the end - sorry, not my kind of book. Haven't bothered to read the other two books, though apparently they aren't as bad.

I don't enjoy that sort of thing either, seriously by choice but it all explained a lot about Lisbet and her attitudes and mistrust of people, especially men. I glossed over the worst of it, made me feel ill.

No, 2 & 3 aren't quite as bad although there is still a lot of violence.