Anyone else stoked on the Daniel Craig, American version of this film coming out?
If you haven’t yet grabbed the book, get ON that. While a lot of the reviews and synopsis of the books as a series indicate that it is a strongly feminist theme-driven trilogy, it surprisingly has a well developed and detailed mystery plot with a lot of focus initially on one of the main (male) characters, Mikael Blomkvist. While it is by no means Charles Dickens (aka: a heavy read), it is surprisingly an advanced read, but with just enough flurry of action that you feel as though you are carried along for the ride, rather than working for your information and connections made throughout the intricate story line. I will say though, the character of Lisbeth Salander is not the feminine heroine for the faint of heart. She is highly moral, though her method of protecting those moral beliefs will rub many the wrong way. In her own way, she’s extremely badass, though not the type of character one would wish to trade places with.
So, go pick up the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and if you haven’t enjoyed the heck out of reading a good book in a long time, then trust me: this is the perfect book to break the dry spell.
