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Old 06-19-2010, 04:27 PM   #5284
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc View Post
Well - I finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" last night - and said "WTF" - pardon my language.

Spoiler:
After grinding on for hundreds of pages, Pippi Longstocking morphs into Jane Bond in the last 20 pages, brings down a global corporation, and loses her boyfriend. The murder mystery is jettisoned. Go back and re-read the first chapter - a great set-up with the flowers & the detective -- that gets forgotten. Our hero publishes a Pulitzer-winning article AND writes a book AND drops his anorexic girlfriend. Huh?
Spoiler:
I haven't read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but the idea of an ordinary person morphing into someone of extraordinary courage and fortitude one stroke before midnight isn't a bad plot device if done right. Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor underwent a wonderful last minute transformation in the original Terminator movie, but there was a reason: her lover and protector from the future was incapacitated and she had no other choice. Still, she didn't transform into James Bond; just an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances at the end of her rope who drew upon inner resources she never knew were there.

From the way you describe the gaping plot holes, I don't see where I'll be picking this one up anytime soon.
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