finally get around to reading this INTERNATIONAL
How did you find the mystery?
So, I finally get around to reading this INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON.  Where to begin?  Hm... Well, first of all, it's really poorly written.  The writing style is trite at best, often choppy, full of unenlightened cliches, red herrings and loose ends that never get tied.  As far as the plot is concerned, the mystery is fairly predictable, and the plot "twists" utterly unoriginal, except to say some of them are just DISGUSTING for the sake of being disgusting.  People make a big ado about how the female protagonist is such an "original creation" and a heroine of post-modern feminism, blah blah.  No.  Lisbeth Salander appears to be just one of Larsson's (many) ways to exploit and glorify rape and female brutalization.  By the way, the book's title in the original Swedish is "Men Who Hate Women."  That's right, even the original title sucks.  At some point, Lisbeth decided to sleep with the OTHER (utterly unimaginative) main character (who smells oddly of Larsson himself, and yet is apparently a walking aphrodisiac) only to first lament in the mirror the fact that she allegedly has no boobs.  Seriously:  a heroine for the ages???  Also, what's with all the product placement in this novel?  Was Larsson getting kick-backs from Apple?  I guess we'll never know now...Watch the Swedish film instead, which is much better than the book, seeing as it's free of Larsson's crappy writing and many of his pointless "plot details" (most of which involve everyone having sex with the Larsson stand-in anyways). 