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The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2)
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bookshelves: meh, vastly-overrated, bleak-thriller, spectacular-letdown, scandinavian-and-nordic, books-everybody-loves-but-me
Nov 04, 2014
bookshelves: meh, vastly-overrated, bleak-thriller, spectacular-letdown, scandinavian-and-nordic, books-everybody-loves-but-me
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What I got:

Also, I LOVE COFFEE, so I really don't need any marketing on beans & machines in a novel that's supposed to be about investigative journalism & almost superhuman hackers.
The title "The Girl who went to IKEA and H&M a lot & the journalist who loved his coffee" would be more fitting.
Poorly written and badly in need of editing (I know it was published posthumously, but still).

What I got:

Also, I LOVE COFFEE, so I really don't need any marketing on beans & machines in a novel that's supposed to be about investigative journalism & almost superhuman hackers.
The title "The Girl who went to IKEA and H&M a lot & the journalist who loved his coffee" would be more fitting.
Poorly written and badly in need of editing (I know it was published posthumously, but still).
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January 1, 2010
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January 1, 2010
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Finished Reading
November 4, 2014
– Shelved
September 5, 2016
– Shelved as:
meh
January 17, 2017
– Shelved as:
vastly-overrated
January 18, 2017
– Shelved as:
bleak-thriller
January 18, 2017
– Shelved as:
spectacular-letdown
June 15, 2017
– Shelved as:
scandinavian-and-nordic
February 12, 2020
– Shelved as:
books-everybody-loves-but-me
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Thing is, if I had been the editor of this book, I would have cut it mercilessly with an axe. The 1st 200 pages were utterly superfluous.