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Originally Posted by MovieBird
Are we talking about just the way words are put together, or are we including the story arc and characteristics of characters as well?
I just finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and didn't like it. But I can't decide if it was badly written. The sentences flow fairly well, but the book needed help in the story department. In my eyes, it was a standard down-on-his-luck older guy, who gets even with the big bad nasty corporation. Oh, and he gets to sleep with his superwoman talented hacker of a sidekick who's half his age. The sadistic elements of the story were just so over the top, with no real bearing on the story. It seemed like they were just thrown in a the drop of a hat (not really tied in or referenced), and thus, felt out of place.
But it's an extremely successful, translated, piece of work.
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Read to the third novel and it becomes more much more interesting. I'm sad that he wasn't able to continue his work because the third novel reveals a trajectory which retrospectively critiques the relatively shallow reading that the first novel invites.