Like I said last time, I got sidetracked from How Soccer Explains the World by The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. OH. MY. GOD. It was amazing. I could not stop reading it; literally took me 4 days to finish between work and school. I even turned down watching Avatar in HD to read.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is NOT shit Stephenie Meyer writing. It's perfect crime novel writing, at least for me. Keeps you hooked, no flowery, existential shit, and witty all at once.
The plot is quite complicated, so I leave it to my fave, Wikipedia to summarize:
Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged investigative journalist who writes for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case against corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström and is sentenced to three months in jail.
Before beginning his sentence, Blomkvist is hired by Henrik Vanger, the aged former CEO of a group of companies owned by a wealthy dynasty. Vanger wants him to solve the disappearance, thirty-seven years ago, of Vanger's great-niece when she was sixteen. Vanger is convinced that the girl was killed by someone in his family. Blomkvist is ultimately helped in his quest by Lisbeth Salander, a young punk who has been victimized or misunderstood by those in authority throughout her whole life, but who is also a brilliant computer hacker. The unlikely couple become a classic detective pair.
It is one of the best crime novels I have ever read. Please read it, and the other two books in the series, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked a Hornets Nest . Lisbeth Salander (the titular girl) is such a bad ass. Not evil, just follows her own rules and is not one to be fucked with. Love her and her crazy, violent tendencies. She makes up for the sometime annoying-ness of the protagonist, Mikael Blomkvist. But this book is a definite summer, really all year round, read. Do it.
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