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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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I have the impression that this series of three books by Stieg Larsson put Scandinavian crime fiction on the world map? Of course I'm probably overstating that by a mile.
Like the first one, this was a real page-turner, and I finished it in just a couple nights (fast for me). One problem I did have was that once you realize that nothing really bad is going to happen to any of the important characters, a lot of the suspense goes. (Some will smile at my naivete as testified to by that statement. But when I read books like this, and when I see certain types of movies, I often take to heart something that a boyhood friend of mine once said when I chided him about the pleasure he seemed to take in Shoot-em-up Westerns. "Of course I fall for everything in the movie ... it's more fun that way!")
I do have to admit that at the end of the book I was fooled about the fate of the heroine, but still she has come to be a bit much of a comic book character: Techie Super Woman. Oh well. Literature No, fun reading Yes.
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Like the first one, this was a real page-turner, and I finished it in just a couple nights (fast for me). One problem I did have was that once you realize that nothing really bad is going to happen to any of the important characters, a lot of the suspense goes. (Some will smile at my naivete as testified to by that statement. But when I read books like this, and when I see certain types of movies, I often take to heart something that a boyhood friend of mine once said when I chided him about the pleasure he seemed to take in Shoot-em-up Westerns. "Of course I fall for everything in the movie ... it's more fun that way!")
I do have to admit that at the end of the book I was fooled about the fate of the heroine, but still she has come to be a bit much of a comic book character: Techie Super Woman. Oh well. Literature No, fun reading Yes.
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Previous review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Random review: Christ and Apollo lit crit
Next review: Values in a Universe of Chance pragmatist Charles S. Peirce
Previous library review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
August 1, 2010
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Finished Reading
March 6, 2012
– Shelved
March 6, 2012
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crime-fiction
March 6, 2012
– Shelved as:
lit-european
July 6, 2013
– Shelved as:
beach-fun-fiction
September 5, 2013
– Shelved as:
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Oct 26, 2017 07:43AM
Have you seen the movies? The Swedish version is excellent and was originally a tv series. The unedited series can be found on Netflix streaming. I didn't particularly care for the US movies.
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Suzy wrote: "Have you seen the movies? The Swedish version is excellent and was originally a tv series. The unedited series can be found on Netflix streaming. I didn't particularly care for the US movies."Yes, I saw the Swedish movie of the first book. Think I mentioned that in my review of that one. Haven't seen any movies of the other books.
Ted wrote: "Suzy wrote: "Have you seen the movies? The Swedish version is excellent and was originally a tv series. The unedited series can be found on Netflix streaming. I didn't particularly care for the US ..."Ah, I don't think I saw your review of the first book - or at least in that level of detail. :) I thought the movies of all 3 books were very well done.
