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Lives up to the hype
Reviewed by Shamim from Cape Town, South Africa on 23 July 2012
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A curious female protagonist in the form of Lisbeth Salander, hacker and social outcast. The male protagonist is Mikael Blomvist, journalist with the morals of a Swedish James Bond.
Unusual as there are two quite distinct story lines running through the book, with the “missing persons case” being particularly puzzling. Gripping novel, although there are a few coincidences that are a bit of a stretch (daughter recently involved in bible studies conveniently and unexpectedly comes to visit and solves part of the puzzle, never to appear in the following two novels).
A good mystery novel.
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Gripping!
Reviewed by Kim from Cape Town on 12 July 2012
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
If you can get through the first few pages that set the scene in sometimes a confusing way, it's brilliant and far better than the movie. Its an intense thriller that I couldn't put down.
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Attention Capturing!
Reviewed by Unknown from South Africa on 15 November 2012
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A most intriguing and attention capturing book I have read in a long time!
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Fell for the hype and was disappointed
Reviewed by YYP from Johannesburg on 01 July 2011
39 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
The Millenium Trilogy has to be the most slowest and boring set of books I have read to date. Stieg Larrson could have written all 3 books in 1. All three books take forever to get into and only the last 30% of the each book pick up pace and the story becomes interesting. I found he repeats everything he said in book 1 in book 2 and from book 2 into book 3. So many unnecessary characters are introduced to tell the same story which can cause confusion, particularly if you put the book down for longer than a week. If you are one of those readers who expects a book to grip you within the first 2-5 chapters, dont bother with this one. Rather watch the movies if you want to jump on the hype.
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Fantastic and gripping
Reviewed by Tarryn on 08 April 2011
137 of 303 people found the following review helpful:
It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.
It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers an unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, corruption in the highest and unexpected connection between themselves.
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Interesting read
Reviewed by Nicola from Johannesburg, South Africa on 21 May 2010
585 of 1292 people found the following review helpful:
I read this book on holiday after as a hand down from my cousin and thouroughly enjoyed it. It took about four chapters to get into it but then could not put it down. There are two stories intertwined into one, which makes it very interesting. This book has been directly translated and this is sometimes comical. As a non european reader it is sometimes difficult to relate to the names and places without having to look things up. I grew up in Europe and found I could relate. The main chahracters are not your run of the mill crime novel ones and this adds to the suspense. Overall I found this a great book and am busy reading the second book in the series. It is a pitty the author has passed away as I believe there was more to come ...
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