Feb 03, 2011 01:42 PM
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Author: Stieg Larsson
608 pages
List Price: Rs. 350
My review of this book is bang on. But before I shed more light on the same here is some background info on the author.
Stieg Larsson(1954-2004) was a Swedish writer and journalist who passed away in 2004. Prior to his death he finished three novels(Genre: detective novels) in his trilogy "The Millenium-series" all of which were published posthumously. They are:
"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"
You can read more about the author here: https://stieglarsson.com/
Moving back to the book, I’d say that reading it is worth every penny invested in buying it.
The very first page will enchant you with the unsolved mystery of the flowers being sent to an old man for more than past 30 years of the days & times of the novel.
If you are already hooked on and you move on to the next couple of pages you will hear the story of a certain ‘Mikael Blomkvist’ who is one of the main characters of the novel. He is a financial journalist who is about to loose a case against a giant industrial conglomerate and is about to be sentenced to jail for libel.
As if this were not enough, the author throws another parallel story of a thin almost anorexic lady who is struggling to be sociable.
Then comes the show stopper an offer to investigate the disappearance of a young girl from a small island in Sweden more than 30 years back in history, a case police till date had not solved.
The simple yet nice way in which the stories became entangled to form a complex and then the appearance of the ‘Dragon Tattoo’.
From here on the story becomes so enchanting that keeping the book down will feel like it hurts. Trust me, I hated the idea of not having been able to finish the book in a weekend and then waking up to find a lot of pages left still and the clock showing Monday morning; absolutely hated the idea of going to office.
The only thing that I did not like was the unfolding of the final moments of the plot. It seemed kind of abrupt and was not at all subtle.
You read you decide! My rating 4.5 on 5.
