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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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For a while i did begin to wonder whether i was going to be the only person in the history of the world who didn't seem to enjoy this book according to all the hype.
I found it quite hard to keep going initially, I suppose because of the need to 'set the scene'. However, as it went on I did get more involved and found it, to a certain extent, if not exactly gripping then holding me with a slightly tighter grasp then absolutely necessary though I have to confess not as much as i had been led to believe by all the hype. (note the common theme) Perhaps that is the inevitable reaction when you are told, assured or promised that you will adore, love, devour and wax lyrical over the novel.
I shall probably get hold of number two and hope I actually get to like the characters. I felt more interested in the secondary storyline of Wennerstrom then I did with the frankly weird Vanger family. To my amazement, I actually had guessed the denoument of the disappeared girl way before it happened and this from a man who struggles to sort out the murderer in any Agatha Christie, 'Rosemary and Thyme' or ' Midsomer Murders '.(With apologies to any non brits who don't get the last two ITV murder series but suffice it to say the murderers are normally the guest actors who are the most well known).
I shall read number two and not just because i feel i should. It was a good read just not as much as I had been led to hope.
I found it quite hard to keep going initially, I suppose because of the need to 'set the scene'. However, as it went on I did get more involved and found it, to a certain extent, if not exactly gripping then holding me with a slightly tighter grasp then absolutely necessary though I have to confess not as much as i had been led to believe by all the hype. (note the common theme) Perhaps that is the inevitable reaction when you are told, assured or promised that you will adore, love, devour and wax lyrical over the novel.
I shall probably get hold of number two and hope I actually get to like the characters. I felt more interested in the secondary storyline of Wennerstrom then I did with the frankly weird Vanger family. To my amazement, I actually had guessed the denoument of the disappeared girl way before it happened and this from a man who struggles to sort out the murderer in any Agatha Christie, 'Rosemary and Thyme' or ' Midsomer Murders '.(With apologies to any non brits who don't get the last two ITV murder series but suffice it to say the murderers are normally the guest actors who are the most well known).
I shall read number two and not just because i feel i should. It was a good read just not as much as I had been led to hope.
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Aug 12, 2012 04:12AM
I agree with you Mark, regarding getting into the book. I'm now having the same problem with book 2 and all the maths theory!?!
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Haven't actually got around to reading number two yet. So many more books that draw me on.....and the Olympics has slowed down my reading even further lol
I really liked this book, but am mystified as to why it became such a huge international bestseller except for the intrigue over the author's death. Too many people reading this book that is way out of their comfort zone. My sister-in-law bought it to read and she normally reads cozy mysteries. No big surprise that she hated it.
Yep I can see what you mean Jeffrey but I suppose that is the problem with hype,hype,hype. I wouldn't say it was exactly outside of my comfort zone but I did read it rather more because it was heavily recommended by friends and indeed everyone who seemed to be breathing last year rather than out of any yearning from my literary juices.
Mark wrote: "Yep I can see what you mean Jeffrey but I suppose that is the problem with hype,hype,hype. I wouldn't say it was exactly outside of my comfort zone but I did read it rather more because it was he..."
I forgot to mention that since Netflix put Rosemary and Thyme on instant we have really been enjoying them. They are sometimes just the perfect thing to watch after a hard day at work. I haven't watched the Midsomer Mysteries. Do you enjoy them as well?
I've seen what you read Mark so I wasn't really thinking this was out of your comfort zone. My sister-in-law among others just threw me for a loop because if they had asked me first I would have probably steered them elsewhere.
Jeffrey, if you like the nuttiness that is 'Rosemary and Thyme' you will fall head over heels in love with the pure insanity that is 'Midsomer Murders'.Every show is a bloodbath, total carnage and they 'pop their clogs' in such delightfully ridiculous ways. For example, the last programme saw assorted murder victims being crushed by a giant cheese, strangled with a cheese wire, stabbed with something you normally stick in cheese for flavouring and my particular favourite, a couple being trampled to death by a herd of cows coming in for milking. Pure camp heaven.
I know it sounds foul but it is wonderfully silly.
I know what you mean about all the hype. I generally avoid the "you have to read this" books like the plague, because if I do read it I feel like the kid in "The Emperor has No Clothes" story. Am I the only one who can see that this book isn't all that great? And then we have to deal with all the copycat books of second rate authors trying to cash in on someone else's ideas. Try to find a teen book these days that doesn't have a vampire, and I'm still trying to understand the whole "Fifty Shades of Gray" phenomonen.
Diane, you talk my language. That Emperor's new clothes thing is alive and active everywhere. I recently went to a concert of our local Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and they played a cello concerto by a bloke called Lutoslawski. It was total crap, horrendous rubbish and yet people were actually clapping. There was no music, no continuity and no recognizable musical structure.Now granted they could have been applauding in relief that the bloody thing was finished but I am not sure. Sometimes I do wonder how much things are liked and feted because it is thought that they should be and are the new thing.
I've started this, am not absorbed and its in my "currently reading" list ...
