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The Girl Who Played With Fire - Novel
This book made for difficult reading with all the "B" Swedish names, it made it hard to remember who was who. The book was very well written and interesting in spite of the above criticism. Wish he would have used more comm,on Swedish name, like Olson, etc. aw
Make Beleive Realism
I liked this book better than Stieg Larson's first. It is even more unbeleivable but at the same time we beleive. THe characters and place and street names number in the hundreds, it seems, but once you get over trying to remember them all you can relax and enjoy Lisbeth's fantastic adventures.
A great sequel
The sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a much more action-packed story. The focus is put more on the mysterious Lisbeth Salander and who she actually is. I found it to be a better read since I didnt have to wade through something like the Vanger family history that's really of little relvance to Lisbeth's story.The cliffhanger ending makes getting the final book of the trilogy a must.
No Better Than The First
For whatever reason, someone long time ago said it was ill to speak of the dead. However, one cannot help to think that the reason that the Girl trilogy has become a worldwide success is because Larsson did die. It was a tragedy, struck down in his prime, and anything else that the publisher could come up with to sell these novels. I didn't know the man, but I am sure that he was a good man. From what his biography says he fought Nazis in Sweden. Good for him and good for Sweden.
However, none of that translates into being a good author. Death has a way of making the bad not seem so bad anymore. When the guy that was mean and never had a nice word to say to anyone drops dead he quickly becomes a better man. The same goes for authors. Most of us did not know Larsson, but when we read his books and read the dust jacket we are convinced that he was a good man and therefore a good author. Death has made Larsson an immediate literary sensation.
According to the website that was dedicated to him, Larsson wrote these novels for himself. It was a way to kill time and shake off the day. Maybe the general public was never supposed to see these novels. We will never know. But let's say that for the sake of argument he was going to try and get them published. I think that they would still be widely popular. Why do I think this even though I think the trilogy is subpar? To quote H.L. Mencken "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
It's true.
Fire is no better than the novel that preceded it. Why should it be? The story goes that all three novels in the series were taken from his computer after he died and then published. It's possible; it has happened in the past. John Kennedy Toole wrote A Confederacy of Dunces. It was only after he committed suicide that his mother found the novel. Long story short- The novel was published and he, Toole, won a Pulitzer.
However, there are differences between the two, not the least being that Fire is supposed to be a mystery. Dunces is a good read. It has an edge; a bite even. Most importantly, Dunces had an editor. Fire, like the novel that follows it and precedes it, was clearly printed as it was found.
At times Fire reads like a shopping list. At other times it reads like a memo without a letterhead. Larsson could never decided if he was writing a police procedural novel or something else entirely. There are too many directions that Larsson has tried to take in Fire and none of them seem to work.
Throughout most of the novel Larsson is busy telling us how great Salander is at everything or he is telling us how adamant Blomkvist is about clearing Salander's name or he is busy telling us in detail about the computers used in the novel. This is another problem with the novel; Larsson never shows the reader a thing instead he tells us everything. It gets old quick.
The only attempted hook is the repeated hints of what life was like for Salander before the "evil" started. I know that there are people out there that still want to read this trilogy so I do not want to give anything away, but when we do learn what the evil is and how it fits in the novel it comes off as cheap. It's a cute little tactic on Larsson's part that fails miserably and reeks of deus ex machina.
I have always been a firm believer that everything has its place. Some people love the Twilight novels, some people don't. Other people think that Jane Austen is the best writer ever and others do not. The point is that novels like this one, and the other novels in this genre, are for entertainment. Most people don't want to think when they are reading a novel. It's not why they cracked the book open. They want to stop thinking for a chapter or two a day. Others who are looking for a well-written mystery, a mystery that will make you think and leave you guessing, should look elsewhere.