The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

My third book club (yes, third!) chose this book for the month of August.  I was not thrilled.  I had started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo way back in February or March and abandoned it.  I'm not sure whether it was the Swedish name places or the extremely detailed and boring financial information, but I just could not slog through another page.  However, since I like to give things a fair shake, and I wanted to participate in a good discussion, I gave the tome another try!

This time, I managed to get through the first 180 or so tiresome pages.  What I found after that was as a fast-paced and thrilling novel.  The character of Lisbeth (excuse my French) is kick-ass!  She has a lot (I mean A LOT) of baggage, but that is part of what makes her character interesting.

I admit that a lot of the plot elements seemed like clues in a wild goose chase, or in mystery terminology, a slew of red herrings, but eventually Stieg Larsson made everything fit together.

Some of the words chosen for this translation of the story were quite strange.  I consider myself to have a pretty broad vocabulary, but I had to use the dictionary feature of my Kindle on many occasions.  Generally, by the conclusion of a novel, I am ready to say good bye to the characters.  Not so with Lisbeth Salander.  I am extremely eager to see where her next adventure leads her in the second book of the trilogy, especially with the cliff hanger of an ending!