The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book started out so slow that it took me three tries over the course of several months, just to get me past the first fifty or so pages. Setting myself to the task of reading this, one final time, I have come out of it saying: I’m throwing in the towel. I’ve heard it said before that this book gets better in the second half, however the fact that it starts so slow and does absolutely nothing to make me feel anything for the characters introduced in that first half, made me give up early into the second half. It might be that there is a brilliant plot unfolding in the second half, or that the characters become so interesting that it’ll be hard to put the book down for fear you won’t be able to focus on anything else until you know what happens to them… but I don’t find it necessary to put myself through any more reading of this just to get to a better part. If there is indeed a better part at the end somewhere.
I will give this book two stars: one for the attempt, and one for managing to trick so many people into believing it’s a masterpiece. Let me just say this: I really don’t understand it. I’ll let the rest of this book, and the rest of the series, pass me by.
