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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) | |
 | Vintage 630 $15.95 4.0 885 8 Book 030745455X |
Product Description Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past. From the Paperback edition. | |
3 out of 5] so-so superhero novel September 8, 2010 I bought this as an airport novel, and I think it turned out to be a moderately entertaining one. The first third of the novel was quite dull, but eventually it became interesting enough to finish - not a classic by any means, just the sort of book that is a nice diversion if you have nothing better to read. Basically, this is a kind of superhero novel; Salander uses her brainpower, her computer skills, and her skill with weapons to defeat any enemy, including one who is basically a supervillian- a giant who feels no pain. When Salander is not part of the action, the novel drags; most of the supporting characters are not particularly memorable. 5 out of 5] Pleased with vendor September 7, 2010 I want to let you know how pleased I am with Lilly Street Books. They are a small business out of their home and they got the book The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson to me amazingly fast. I heard from them the day after I placed the order and they had already mailed the book to me. Considering there was a weekend and a holiday, they still got the book to me in less than a week! A five star experience. 2 out of 5] Bloated and Predictable September 7, 2010 1 out of 1 The initial offering in this series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was barely good enough to goad me into buying this sequel, but this will not happen for the third book. Other negative reviews touch on many of the things that I had problems with, but I'll name the things that bothered me off of the top of my head. The plot was slow developing; it took 250 pages just to get to the point described by the premise on the back cover of the paperback edition. WAY TOO MUCH DETAIL; definitive descriptions of shopping trips to IKEA and convenience stores with a plethora of product placement. Lisbeth Salander, an interesting character from the first book, is now a superwoman, who I never felt was in any danger whatsoever. Blomqvist the male lead is almost as invulnerable, but dull and uninteresting. All other male characters are either 'good guys' or 'bad guys' depending on their opinion of Salander. The female characters are completely interchangeable(with the exception of over-the-top lesbian Miriam Wu) and I often became confused; often I was thinking that character Erica Berger was Malin Errikson and vice versa. The bad guys are extremely one dimensional and have no chance against the likes of Salander; when they had her in their clutches with a chance of putting her out of the way permanently, I couldn't help but think of Dr Evil's son in Austin Powers, imploring his dad to just shoot him; if the evil dudes in this book had just shot Salander then, I would boost this rating 1 star. 1 out of 5] Can't Review - Never Received September 6, 2010 0 out of 2 Shame on Amazon and D W Books. I will buy books from Alibris or Better World Books from now on! 3 out of 5] The Girl Who Played With Fire - Novel September 6, 2010 This book made for difficult reading with all the "B" Swedish names, it made it hard to remember who was who. The book was very well written and interesting in spite of the above criticism. Wish he would have used more comm,on Swedish name, like Olson, etc. aw | |
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