I am feeling a tiny bit hampered because I loaned my copy to a friend who first hated it and then LOVED LOVED LOVED it, so much so that she loaned it to a person I don't know at all, and I have a sinking feeling that my copy will never be seen again, so I will be forced to do my comments based on being 15 months out from having read the book.
I will pull an initiating comment (see, I made up a new book club term) later this week, after I finish Olive Kitteridge for the P-Town Library Book Group and have 5 social lunches out (it's either feast or famine with me) and prepare myself mentally for having my lumbar MRI done. But any of you who are chomping at the bit to comment, please go ahead. We've all read the book and love it, I think, so it doesn't much matter who starts.
And I swear that someday, I'll figure out how to format my posts. Until then...
Susan, Techno-phobe
Talk about a book with icky parts!!!
ReplyDeleteI had to order this book from the library twice ... just couldn't get started the first time ... and I've heard that from so many others. Anyway, the second time worked ... once I got past the first 50 or 60 pages I was riveted ... stay up reading until 2am riveted.
The plot is twisty-turny, layered and complelling. The characters are so good ... let me say that again: so good! The story overall fits my highest criteria: a good story, well told.
The icky parts are really icky but that sure did not stop me from reading. This is something Susan and I have discussed ... some authors have icky parts (or as Susan says "smarmy") that stop you dead in your tracks ... you put the book down and never pick it up again. And then some authors have icky parts that that you tolerate so you can read the whole story. I'm not much for the gory, scary stuff but if the book is good enough I'll just gloss over it and keep reading. I've been reading a mystery series where the main character is an assassin ... everywhere he goes he's crunching and killing people ... yet he's a great charater and the books are very readable.
I have only two criticisms of the Dragon Tattoo book: sometimes the details, especially the financial details, just got too detailed; and second, the book ended before I was ready ... I wanted to keep on reading about Lisbeth and Mikael ... but I might have been ready to let the Vangers go.
My vote: BUY IT (You'll want it on your bookshelf so you can read it again.)