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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Well pick it up and keep going. And the people who said you have to make it past the first 100 pages may be wrong. Make it the first half and then if you don't like it, give it up. 5 pages past the dull beginning is not enough to get into it. That's like reading only the first five pages and then putting the book down. 5 pages is not enough to tell if you like a book. I consider the dull beginning to not count in terms of whether you like it or not. I consider after the dull bits to be the part where you start reading. So treat it as such and 5 pages doesn't cut it.
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I read the whole thing and couldn't
believe that it was a bestseller. Don't misunderstand me, the creation of Lisbeth Salander (sp?) was brilliant. Loved that part. Didn't care for the protagonist that much, who felt more like a leaf being carried down a stream than a hard-charging investigative journalist. (Also thought that the "every woman he met jumped into bed with him" part was too much anthropomorphizing for his avatar, {yawn}).
The murder mystery?
I just felt it was grossly overrated. No doubt due to Lisbeth's creation, which, again, I thought was fabulous. But the rest just felt turgid. The coincidences were one too many, the solution was forced. The big "reveal" at the end for the "evil capitalist" was deader'n Julius Caesar for me. {shrug}.
Wasn't my cuppa. It was "okay," I suppose, but I never bothered to read the next two.
Hitch