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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.

42 replies

magimedi · 02/08/2013 07:56

All three on kindle for 99p each!

If you haven't read them they would make perfect holiday reading.

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lljkk · 11/08/2013 14:53

Oh yeah, the teacher? I thought she might be an interesting character with true depth. I think her real role was to show how virile the hero was he couldn't possibly go a few weeks without some woman throwing herself at him.

(Making note to hide this thread now, those books just brings out the worst cynic in me)

KittenofDoom · 11/08/2013 15:14

No, it's not an overreaction. Cote dazur has plenty of previous form in this respect. And how is it not patronising to lecture someone about something as if they are ignorant?

Anyway since I can't "ignore" the woman, I'm at least able to hide this thread.

CoteDAzur · 11/08/2013 15:15

If Lisbeth was the perfect heroine, we would have seen more like her in fiction.

I understood her thinness as the result of drugs & smoking, rather than a model-like ideal of femininity. (I have known quite a few people like that. you would be surprised how thin you get despite junkfood when you crank up your metabolism and dance all weekend, 48 hours straight with no time off for sleep) Also, I didn't think she had superhuman strength, but was vicious and violent because (1) she learned to defend herself and (2) she had little empathy and social inhibition.

The last two are obviously related to an ASD condition, and I would think, so is her brilliance in fact collection & pattern recognition (research). She reminds me of a corporate lawyer I used to know - completely inept in anything remotely social, even conversation, but would put together complex legal structures that nobody would even understand.

Meanwhile, Blomkvist got targeted by a powerful man who then discredited him because he wrote investigated and wrote a damning article about the guy. It wasn't an improbable coincidence, imho.

Anyway, to each their own taste in books, of course. Agatha Christie it certainly ain't Smile

CoteDAzur · 11/08/2013 15:22

lljk wasn't "lecturing" anybody in her previous post, so why do you think I was? Confused

We are talking about a book. People say what they think about the book. All I said was about the book. None of it was about you.

I'm actually finding your nastiness towards me on this thread rather disturbing.

greensmoothiegoddess · 12/08/2013 21:39

You're not the only one Cote! Weird overreaction huh?

hackmum · 13/08/2013 09:47

lljk - I agree it was very comic book in a lot of places. I just took that as a convention of the genre - ie I read it and enjoyed it on those terms. Lisbeth wasn't supposed to be a realistic character. The one bit that really jarred for me was the bit where she goes and has a boob job - she's supposed to be this tough, supremely intelligent bisexual who doesn't give a fuck. Why would she have a boob job?

CoteDAzur · 13/08/2013 10:29

greensmoothie Thanks

CoteDAzur · 13/08/2013 10:31

I'm pretty sure the boob job is in the beginning of the 2nd book. I took it as part of Lisbeth's decision to be more feminine, following the heartbreak she felt when she saw Bromkvist with his lover/colleague at the end of the 1st book.

Didn't she also have her tattoos removed?

GetStuffezd · 13/08/2013 14:09

She has the boob job at the start of book 2, yes. And she has the wasp tattoo removed as it's too conspicuous. I love her as a character, realistic or not.

aoife24 · 22/08/2013 13:06

As Roddy Doyle said about James Joyce's Ulysses: could have done with a good editor.

Nebraskanell · 07/09/2013 11:41

I've never read these, but my Mother in law has and really enjoyed them!

Nebraskanell · 07/09/2013 11:41

She's got fairly good taste; )

piratecat · 10/09/2013 21:07

was just going to ask on my own thread, did anyone find the third hard going.

the first is amazing, second, great, the third is dragging it's heels and i can't put my finger on it, it's a struggle imo.

anyone?

piratecat · 10/09/2013 21:12

i had no idea either that the author had died before he saw any success with them.

marissab · 17/09/2013 08:35

Do you know apparently there is a 4th half written book? Its in the middle of some sort of court battle coz his widow won't release it to his family. God i would love to read it!

DuchessofMalfi · 17/09/2013 10:40

I started reading the third one yesterday. Only 40 pages in so far. It's going to take me a very long time to finish it. Maybe I've left it too long between reading the other two and picking up this one but I'm struggling to remember who everyone is. Not gripped yet. Tell me it isn't going to be a struggle to get through :)

piratecat · 18/09/2013 09:11

im afraid i struggled, and had only put down book two a few weeks previously. I was the same with the characters, i couldn't remember who was who, who worked for who, or what 'company' did what.

I was reluctant to put it down but i just couldn't concentrate on this one.

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