Okay, I'm punting on this one. It's fine, if a bit mired in minutia. I felt it was getting too bogged down, I skipped forward a few hundred pages and, while a little more exciting, it still didn't pull me in. I needed to find out one plot point that I skipped over so I read the synopsis on Wikipedia. I ended up reading the entire plot summary and I think that does enough for me. Oh well. Maybe if Lisbeth had been in it more I would have plowed on. 
 But THIS is funny! by Nora Ephron, parody of the series: 
 http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/0...