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Originally Posted by afv011
I personally found the details about coffee and food (like naming brands) over the top. I read the first 2 books as there was lots of talk about them, but I found them average, and couldn't be bothered to try the 3rd.
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I commented in a different thread some time ago about the excessive product placement in the
Millennium Trilogy. Not just mention of brand names, but actual incorporation of ad copy.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
In my case: the same thing that usually makes me want to try any author I've never read before... buzz.
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That's why I first picked up
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I actually found myself hooked into reading all three. Even though the writing was not that great and things became more and more implausible (Lisbeth Salander, zombie super hero), Larsson did produce page turners.
The buzz and massive sales is the same reason I picked up the first of the
Twilight Series books. Everything about that, including the quality of writing, was so bad that I did not get far there.