The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[mangaman]

The DVC is total drivel. Well constructed and a page-turner, but still unoriginal manipulative drivel. "Mugged" is right - it's Erik von Daniken for people who don't realise they are buying Write By Numbers.

The Lisbeth Salander trilogy are still airport books but a whole order better. There is a just about credible story, several very strong central participants, realistic characters and descriptions of locations which suggest he has actually been there rather than doing a Dan Brown and getting his software to trawl through National Geographic. If you look at it as a thriller, the pace isn't sustained and the last 100 pages of Book 3 fall rather flat, with some ends left loose and others just cobbled together. It seems to be another victim of trilogy disease - best seller debut, enough ideas for one more, publishers insist on two more. But you will still be getting value for money.

This is pretty much my view (apart from the DVC which I haven't read.)

The "Dragon trilogy" is a good read and a page turner - especially once Lisbeth shows up. Credibility is at snapping point at times but if one can ignore that - other bits are very realistic and interesting.

I guess the best bits relate to what he had worked on when he was a journalist himself.

I agree the 3rd book was disappointing and pedestrian. It seems strange as there is alleged to be 4th book that he was writing, so it doesn't appear to have meant to be a trilogy.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I read somewhere that he had a further 10 Lisbeth Salander books in his head. They would have to be somewhat different in nature, given the outcome of the third book.