I really enjoyed The Millennium Trilogy as a whole, I enjoyed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo most of all, but it did take a while to get into, and my enjoyment of it was improved by a second read. Not sure they are badly written/translated at all. Some of the scenes are a little graphic and I can understand why people might dislike that aspect.
I tried one of the Harry Potter books but stories about wizards and magic are just a turn-off for me, so while they might be very good, well-written books, they just aren't to my taste. Same with LotR, never even tried to read them - though strangely I did read and enjoy much of Stephen King's Dark Tower series many years ago, but even that didn't lead me to consider trying LotR.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
How can anyone abandon Catch-22? I'm amazed.
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I can see the attraction in the humour of Catch-22 but I gave up reading it because I found it repetitive, and the irrationality, general going round in circles and the lack of plot very, very tedious. I prefer plot-driven thrillers, so it's not my kind of book, but I do enjoy a change of pace every now and then (I read 1Q84 a while ago for example and really enjoyed it), but Catch-22 was a painful read for me, so I stopped wasting my time reading it. It just leaves me cold.