I finally read it!! And, what's more, I read it on a Kindle. This worked out very well for several reasons: 1) it was lightweight and I wasn't aware how long it was, or I might have given up in the beginning; 2) all you have to do is put the cursor at an unfamiliar word and the definition will appear, i.e. "haberdashery" (fabric store) -- this is a GREAT feature; 3) I could keyword-search the book if I was curious. In this case I was, about coffee. PEOPLE DRANK MORE COFFEE IN THIS BOOK THAN I COULD FATHOM. "Coffee" appears 117 times, if you're curious. That still seems low to me. 
 As others have said, this book starts out slow but really grabs hold. After I passed the halfway point, I was reading it with heart literally pounding. It takes a lot for a book to provoke a physical reaction, I think; in this case, a many-layered mystery, well-built suspense, and some truly horrifying violence (beware). I find myself eager to read the next book and see the movie. I also will spend awhile thinking about what I read in another Goodreads review: that the Swedish name for this book is "Men Who Hate Women." Gives it a whole different spin than centering it around Lisbeth Salander via the title, doesn't it?