It’s somewhat
disappointing after The girl with the Dragon Tattoo. After reading almost 100
pages, it has told nothing but Salander's shopping details. Larrson has
probably tried to emphasize it as a big change in her life but I don’t think
she was described particularly to be living hand to mouth in the previous
novel. Her shopping frenzy is over emphasized.
I don’t even find
the descriptions of her consistent with her previous image of an extremely
autistic person. She has suddenly come to be at ease with having long
conversations.
Salander's newly
found interest in mathematics is funny and somehow that does go with her image
of a nosy investigator.
And there should be
at least one woman around Blomkvist who is not having an affair with him. I
tried to ignore it in the previous novel but all his relationships start in a
very stupid, lame way and without any kind of context.
The writing style in
the previous novel was also better. Now it just seems to drag unnecessarily. It
looks like Larrson was just trying to fill the pages.
I hope the story
will be good and as enthralling as the previous one, once it starts. I hope it
starts soon. More than hundred pages is a little too much for telling the
context.
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