Friday, March 18, 2011

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Lots to say, not enough time to say it.

Thought I'd carve out a little time for a book review. Considering that I don't finish a lot of books these days and the lack of writing overall I've been doing I thought I'd do up something quick on the topic.

I finished "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" last night. You've probably heard of it. It's a murder mystery with a lot going on for it. Written by the late Stieg Larsson it's already an international bestseller, seen one set of movies made about the trilogy and has another trilogy coming up by David Fincher. The protagonists, such as they are, are Mikael Blomkvist, a finance reporter, and Lizbeth Salander a PI/hacker of considerable talent. While there's certainly a lot to roll your eyes about, possibly because the novel was written in swedish, possibly because it tries pretty hard to impress the reader with descriptions of the "bleeding edge" tech from 2004, the story is well crafted and Lizbeth especially I found to be an extremely endearing character.