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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I'm just finishing "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" - it was OK - but the ending's a bit unrealistic and very rushed - with every gimmick/cliche of popular thriller fiction
OK but not thrilling. Have the next 2 in my TBR list - are they better?
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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Just laid hands on the Larsson trilogy, by the way. A couple of thousand pages or more, I think. I'm at fifty-some pages into The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and am bored to bloody tears. The writing is awful, the characters are pure cardboard, the research seems so skimpy that disbelief can't be suspended, and there's not the vaguest hint of a story yet. Is it really worth sticking with this turgid stuff? I know a lot of chums here have enjoyed at least GWTDT, so maybe I'm about to give up too soon, but I won't read another page until one of you trusted pals tells me I'll regret it if I don't. From what I've seen so far ... all hype, no substance. Cheers. Neil
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You two are the first people I hear complaining about these books. Now I'm intrigued... I just checked my local library and it looks like the first book is available, I'll go check
