OK. I succumbed like the rest of America and read this too. It was OK. He writes adequately but it is nothing important. Some of the characters were interesting and the disappeared girl investigation bit was exciting but it reminded me of
Anna Karenina where you think once Anna throws herself under the train it's over and then it goes on for chapter after chapter about other people that you never were interested in---- before the book ends.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had a very compelling mystery and once the mystery was solved it should have been over but then he launches into quite a few more chapters about a very dull plot line that no one even cared about. Tolstoy we forgive...Stieg Larsson....maybe not?
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I think TCR might have added that the names in "Girl" are only one-third the length of those in "Anna K" thus rendering extraneous characters less burdensome. Perhaps also worth adding is that the subsequent plot line is somewhat linked to the final two stories of The Millenium Trilogy.
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