{"id":300,"date":"2008-10-09T00:45:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T07:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/300"},"modified":"2008-10-09T00:45:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T07:45:56","slug":"the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Based on Kathleen’s recommendation, I just finished reading the new English translation of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s one of the best mystery\/thrillers I’ve read in years<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting into the swing of pronouncing all the Swedish names and places in my head (like Saltsj\u00c3\u00b6baden, J\u00c3\u00a4rnv\u00c3\u00a4gsgatan and Aftonbladet)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0took a bit of an adjustment – but didn’t take long… and worth the effort.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don’t want to give anything away, because this a must read for anyone who loves a good Agatha Christie type murder mystery.\u00c2\u00a0 But I will say that\u00c2\u00a0Mr. Larsson wove two different stories together brilliantly.\u00c2\u00a0 A fascinating story that was\u00c2\u00a0hard to put down.\u00c2\u00a0 The characters are original and engaging, he offers lots of interesting twists – complexity without being confusing.\u00c2\u00a0 Has it’s dark moments, but doesn’t overdo it.\u00c2\u00a0 You can tell the author has passion about the issues in the book.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to the publishing of the rest of the trilogy in English…\u00c2\u00a0 and also disappointed that the author died in 2004 – shortly after delivering the manuscripts for this and 2 subsequent novels.<\/p>\n

Have you read it? What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on Kathleen’s recommendation, I just finished reading the new English translation of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s one of the best mystery\/thrillers I’ve read in years.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting into the swing of pronouncing all the Swedish names and places in my head (like Saltsj\u00c3\u00b6baden, J\u00c3\u00a4rnv\u00c3\u00a4gsgatan and Aftonbladet)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0took a bit … Continue reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviewsrecommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}