I began reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo about two weeks ago thinking it would take me forever. I'm typically a slow reader because I take way too long trying to understand what's on a page, like each detail has to make sense to me before I move on. Surprisingly though, this book is going pretty quickly for what I'm used to. It scared me at first because of the interesting kind of language in the beginning. It was like watching the news because it talks about lots of business and political information that I don't even know how to describe because I'm that ignorant about it. Fortunately the book does get a lot better because he actually starts into a very detailed plot. I can really tell this author put in a lot of thought into this book because the characters are so intricate and detailed! They don't seem like the characters I usually read in books that seem like the author just kind thought of on the spot and wrote about them. No, these characters seem like the author took real people and dug into their personal lives because he actually got the sense of a "real" character.
I think usually when I write for school assignments I cheese up my writing a little bit, you know, make it sound like I'm completely and utterly in love with this book and I will list all the reasons why it's amazing. Well, I'm going to try really hard no to do that. It's hard though because I really do enjoy this book! The plot is already starting to unravel and I'm not even too far in. It's a really great mystery not in the typical way. In fact you don't even get introduced to the "mystery element" until after a long and detailed look at the all the characters that will be important to the story. I'm usually not really into the whole detailed thing, and it was kind of annoying in the beginning, but as it started to get less confusing it also got really interesting.
I'm really excited to read about the family history of the Vangers who seem to have a complex story that I can't wait to unravel as the book continues. This wealthy family seems to have a lot of secrets that I'm interested to learn about. I especially enjoy the actual "girl with the dragon tattoo", Lisbeth Salander. Even though the book doesn't talk about her as much, she interests me quite a lot more than Blomkvist. Maybe it's because she's female? I doubt it though, I think I really just like that she has a certain uniqueness in both that she's hard core and yet surprisingly brilliant at what she does. I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say that it's kind of cool to read about someone who in real life you would not expect to be so smart! I think that's why the whole Susan Boyle story blew up on the internet because no one expected her to be amazing at singing and yet she blew their socks off! So I think that's maybe why this book became so popular, because so many people are interested in that kind of story. I'm not sure because I'm not too far in the book, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo continues to intrigue me and I'm looking forward to reading more into the complex story that awaits me.
