Started: March 17, 2012
Finished: March 23, 2012
Pages: 602
I was looking for some fiction, so I stopped by the library and found this. I've read Dragon Tattoo and Played with Fire, but waited a long time to read this final novel because the publisher refused to put out the paperback version. Well, fooled them. I can't remember how I read the first one, I bought the second, and would have bought the 3rd in paperback....but instead waited until it was easily available at the library. That's how I read most mysteries: they're consumables, and as such as not worth purchasing. Sara Paretsky is almost the only author I regularly buy, and that's mostly because I like her books and political attitude and want to support her.
At any rate, on to the book itself. I won't call it predictable, but it is very similar to the first two. Blomqvist brilliantly pursues a story while Lisbeth proves herself super-heroic. Corruption is uncovered, evil-doers are punished. Gripping writing makes it hard to put down. The end.
It's too bad Larsson didn't get a chance to write more....but only because I'm curious as to what Lisbeth would have chosen to do with her $2.3 billion after she finished slaying dragons.
I read these books a couple of years ago and I can't say that I would have kept reading them - masses of "pop fiction" in my opinion. Give me literature any day!
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