I remember when I first read Jurassic Park I was so drawn in that I finished it at 2AM in my bed cause I couldn't put it down. Despite my wifey's intensity, it took me longer to finish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but I still liked it quite a bit.
I think it was a bit slow in starting. If I hadn't heard so many great reviews I might even have given up a quarter of the way through. During much of the first half of the book one thing that is a bit off-putting and also intriguing is trying to figure out how Stieg Larsson is going to get the two main characters together. Eventually they do come together and completing the book is worthwhile overall.
What I liked about having my wife read it, things that took a long while to complete for me took only moments for her. Where the time it took me to get from point A to point B might be three or four days, my wife will ask me about point A and then thirty minutes later will talk about B. If I had to do it over, I'd have done it her way and knocked it out all at once.
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Puleeze... I read it in that time and read the other two in the next month. They were fun, silly, exciting reads. Actually, could tell he was a journalist as the sentences moved rather quickly. Think I preferred #2, due to the description of the Ikea furniture collection at the beginning. Juxtaposition. Just drivel. But fun drivel. - previous mentor
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