Customer Reviews:
 mystery/thriller 101 September 6, 2010
Angele55 (Gatineau, Quebec)
Recommend this book....however to complete you must read all 3 books by Stieg Larsson and start with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo first.... can't wait to see this in a movie...
Awesome! September 2, 2010
Mike
I really enjoyed the first novel, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and this one picks up right where the last left off. The author once again has written an amazing mystery suspense novel that you cannot put down once you start. Now I can't wait to read the 3rd book in the Millenium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest.
 ...at least it's better than ".....Tatoo" August 31, 2010
Ronald W. Maron (Nova Scotia)
While I was severely disappointed and wondered what all the hype about this trilogy was, at least this book, compared to "....Tatoo", moves quickly (after the first 120 pages) and has a more 'whodunit' personae and a fast ending climax. The story is easy to follow in spite of the fact that the murder case is complex and the plot, itself, has many interchanges that keep a reader interested. I am still amazed, however, at the author's writing style! Meaningless descriptions of things that have nothing to do with the story overload this book and force it into being a 724 page tome. Instead of simply stating that a character stopped by a store for a few things, he goes into a long list of what the purchases were! Salander, in her search for a new apartment appears to be nothing more than a 'page filler'. And, certainly not least, her shopping trip to Ikea to furnish the apartment is a three page inane study of what she bought, the style, the color, etc.... I love reading, but reading things that are important to the character and not merely meant to fill pages 88 to 94! And, lastly, the first 120 pages is nothing more than a reviw of the occurences of ".....Tatoo". Doesn't the author of a trilogy consider the fact that nearly everyone read book #1 before moving on to book #2?
Thre author's continued reliance on sexual encounters and perversions should be questioned also. While I realize that the reading and viewing public requires sex to be openly displayed, aren't some of our most treasured writings absent of such literary adjuncts? When sex is used for reader titallation, rather than it being an intricate part of the story, whose needs are we fulfilling here? The ever sex-thirsty public or some unknown lack of resolution regarding this topic on the author's part?
This book certainly needed a more active editor and could have been successfully completed inside of 350 pages. While the heroine, Salander, is complex and does have some interesting skills, she winds up being more like a pulp fiction cartoon than anyone who has ever walked on planet Earth. At the end she has 3 bullets in her, one of which is lodged in her brain, and she is able to subdue her villainous father! This is more like Supergirl than a mere fictional heroine!
In the Summer of 2010 the Penguin Books needed a crime-action series of books that would satisfy the mundane appetites of the low to average reading public and, being so, could be easily over-hyped to the masses without their overt awareness. Obviously, this trilogy easily meets that feduciary criteria.
The Girl Who Played With Fire August 24, 2010
Gillian Bradley
This book is fantastic but its unresolved ending means you just have to read the third book, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest.
Great book I August 22, 2010
TattooedTrash
Great Book could not put it down!!! Im looking forward to starting the 3rd book
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