The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

There’s a bit of romance,Ī bit of sexy times, and some humour. In fact, most of the action takes place on an idyllic island ownedīy a vastly wealthy family who own their own corporation. It was not what I thoughtįrom what I’d heard, I was expecting this to be a dark, grit-encrusted And there’s less of it than had been suggested.Īnyway, now I’ve justified my totally unreasonable ignoring The sexual violence in the book is illustrated by several horribleįacts at the start of each section which announce statistics around the abuse Of much gritty crime fiction, but I wouldn’t generally sign up to reading a bookįortunately, the edition I got had a great foreword whichĮxplained that Steig Larsson was very committed to making social commentary in I’ve come across it in many books before and it almost seems a pre-requisite

Heard that ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ contains quite a bit of sexual The second reason is that through various sources I had

It had never been hyped in the first place. Just appreciate the book for what it is, and end up really enjoying it, as if However, if you can let the hype die down you can usually Iĭon’t think I’ve ever read a hyped book that I thought was worth it (possible No matter how high the acclaim, my outrageous expectations are always higher. I avoided it for ages for two very good reasons.įirstly, books with this level of hype are universally disappointing. It is 19 whole years since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Well, I couldn’t be any later to the party here, could I?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson