The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
I finished reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. My mother had picked it up and finished reading it and recommended it, as did Ania, plus the blurb piqued my interest.
It's a pretty very good crime thriller featuring some really interesting characters, good writing and a very interesting mystery plot, which you don't see coming.
The most interesting character is the girl of the title, who's a strange (in a mental way) security specialist who likes hacking into people's computers. But the book's packed with interesting characters. It revolves around a rich tycoon's family who is dying, and before he goes, he wants a disgraced journalist to answer a question that's been obsessing him for years: who killed his niece. The plot features Nazis, psychos, lots about journalism (including the failings of financial ones) and rich mogul businessmen of different varieties.
Definitely, the best character of the novel is Lisbeth Salander, who's probably Aspergic and a very strange computer hacker who works as a PI for a security company and is insanely good at her job. For example, her long suffering boss cites a story where a simple background check on a prospective employee in a firm ended up in the uncovering of a paedophile.
Lisbeth isn't considered mentally capable by the state, as a result she's held in guardianship. There's a creepy point in the middle of the book where her guardian (who she got along with really well) dies, to be replaced with another who then forces her to have sex with him in order for her to get money out of her bank account. Lisbeth is the kind of character where, you don't feel sorry for or horrified on her account. Rather, when she doesn't kill the person straight away, you wait in horrified fascination to find out what she does do to him.
The story between her and the journalist who's investigating the family (who has a name I can't begin to spell) is quite touching, as he seems to be one of the few people who can reach her and doesn't freak her out.
Finally, there are lots of nice insights and the story is set in Sweden, which makes it more interesting.
It's a pretty very good crime thriller featuring some really interesting characters, good writing and a very interesting mystery plot, which you don't see coming.
The most interesting character is the girl of the title, who's a strange (in a mental way) security specialist who likes hacking into people's computers. But the book's packed with interesting characters. It revolves around a rich tycoon's family who is dying, and before he goes, he wants a disgraced journalist to answer a question that's been obsessing him for years: who killed his niece. The plot features Nazis, psychos, lots about journalism (including the failings of financial ones) and rich mogul businessmen of different varieties.
Definitely, the best character of the novel is Lisbeth Salander, who's probably Aspergic and a very strange computer hacker who works as a PI for a security company and is insanely good at her job. For example, her long suffering boss cites a story where a simple background check on a prospective employee in a firm ended up in the uncovering of a paedophile.
Lisbeth isn't considered mentally capable by the state, as a result she's held in guardianship. There's a creepy point in the middle of the book where her guardian (who she got along with really well) dies, to be replaced with another who then forces her to have sex with him in order for her to get money out of her bank account. Lisbeth is the kind of character where, you don't feel sorry for or horrified on her account. Rather, when she doesn't kill the person straight away, you wait in horrified fascination to find out what she does do to him.
The story between her and the journalist who's investigating the family (who has a name I can't begin to spell) is quite touching, as he seems to be one of the few people who can reach her and doesn't freak her out.
Finally, there are lots of nice insights and the story is set in Sweden, which makes it more interesting.