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Type: fiction
Status: neutral
Author: Stieg Larsson
Tags: fiction mystery swedish
Description: I picked this up based on the great buzz I heard about it and its intriguing title. I thinkI picked this up based on the great buzz I heard about it and its intriguing title. I think the buzz came, however, from a group of people who like different types of books than I. It was an interesting mystery, with some interesting characters, but I didn't find it remarkable in any sense. There was something lost in the translation, the English prose was often stiff and unwieldy. And the author had an irritating habit of giving much too specific detail about computer equipment, I had to wonder if he had been paid off by Apple. I'm not sorry I read it, but I didn't find it nearly as engrossing as most....
2009-10-24
