(Part of the Millennium (#2) Series and Millennium Split-Volume Edition Series)
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A read copy, but remains in excellent condition.
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Conditions
A read copy, but remains in excellent condition.
Not as good as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Wastes many words repeating and summarizing. Could be 20% fewer pages. I do like the strong, smart female characters. What really gets my goat is the advertising! I don’t need to know the brand of pizza Lisbeth buys at the convenience store and I certainly don’t need it repeated every time she looks at it or takes another bite or someone finds a wrapper in her trash! And the IKEA shopping trip is ridiculous! Naming every item of every line purchased, and taking two whole pages to do it?!? Shameless!
Wasn't as good as the first in the series but on the other hand had some really good characters..They kept me reading it..No weak woman in this book.
If you haven't read his books, I would highly advise you to. I suggest you read the first 3 that was actually wrote by Stieg, as the other books that are ghost written, don't have the same feel or heart, and leave something to be desired.
I really like mystery/thriller books and this one was everything I thought it would be. I could hardly put it down! If you like thrillers, this is a book for you. I have read 2 of Stieg Larsson books and loved them both. Waiting to read the next one. There wasn't anything about this book that I disliked.
Perhaps the product details were not available when you bought the book, but they currently state that the language is German. Hope that this helps others!
In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander electrified the story, even though she had a relatively small part in the plot; here, in the second novel of the series, she is given center stage to Blomkvist's secondary role, making The Girl Who Played With Fire much tauter, more exciting than the first book. Larsson begins to expose what makes Salander tick, and the result gives her character an interesting vulnerability, one that makes her more human and less crazy. But let's get one thing straight; even with the more humanizing portrait, you would not want to corner Salander in a dark alley. Nor do you want to give her access to your computer. She is every bit as gritty and clever as she was in the first, and her stark determination to live by her own moral code drives the plot. When a journalist working for Blomkvist and Berger and his PhD candidate girlfriend are murdered, it's bad enough, but when those murders are linked to that of Salander's sadomasochistic guardian, Salander becomes the only suspect. On the lam, she seems to make no attempt to clear her name and instead gets in deeper. Throw in a "blond giant" (similar in many ways to the albino monk of The DaVinci Code), the seedy underpinnings of the sex trade, and returning characters, and you've got a suspenseful, likable, satisfying thriller. As a pure thriller, The Girl Who Played With Fire is stronger than its predecessor because it has fewer meandering subplots, more unrelenting suspense, and more deftly drawn characters, even if Larsson occasionally resorts to types. The author seems to have found his narrative stride with this. If you liked the first, you'll love the second. I just hope Larssen's third manuscript was polished enough before he passed away to build on his already finely-tuned skills as a novelist. -- Debbie Lee Wesselmann
Published by Hugo MundaySeptember 9, 2015
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