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The Girl Who Played with Fire

By: Stieg Larsson
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
ISBN: 1906694184
ISBN-13: 9781906694180
Released: 09 Jul 2009
RRP: £7.99
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the girl who played with fire - By: sadie scinders, 01 Sep 2010
An excellent follow up to the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo only to be bettered by the final part of the trilogy.
Rather a Let-Down - By: Paul Rutherford, 30 Aug 2010
Sorry to prick the hyperbole bubble, but this is a very ordinary thriller. The first 100 pages drag some (and the writing is as wooden as the IKEA furniture that obesses Larson), the middle 350 then trot along at a fair pace with some engaging plot turns, then the final 100 is a bit of a let-down. After the very engaging first volume, this is a disappointment.
The Girl Who Played with Fire - By: Myles2958, 25 Aug 2010
Excellent follow up to The Girl with the Dragon TattooThe Girl Who Played with Fire
Brilliant - By: Rachel Higham, 24 Aug 2010
Would highly recommend, even better than the first book (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Cannot wait to read the next installment.
page turner but a bit over-rated - By: Genly Ai, 23 Aug 2010
The Millenium trilogy starts with a sort of detective story & proceedsin this & the following book (2 & 3 are really the same very long book) more as a thriller. I don't on the whole like thrillers but these were strangely hard to put down. The plot is a bit OTT with extreme violence, high level corruption & spies. Several things that seemed superfluousin book one are brought to the centrein the other two which focus on the story of Lisbeth Salandar.

There has been criticism of Larsson for misogyny mainly over the rather graphic violence towards women. His defence seems to be that he was exposing what happens & how society ignores it & so gives tacit permission. I'm sure his heart wasin the right place but there is too much sensationalismin the descriptions. Larsson also hits out at lazy, tabloid journalismin the media firestorm around Salandar.

Then there's the computing: it is very silly & unrealistic but I have read worse (really!). Hackers are romanticised as information warriors & wonders performed on laptops & even Palm PDAs. Another minus is the frequent name-checking of brands which gets rather tedious. I hope Apple paid well as they must have sponsored the books from the number of mentions.

Lisbeth Salandar is a misfit with a photographic memory & a reality defying ability with computers. I rather liked her though. Mikael Blomkvist is a brilliant, attractive, risk-taking journalist (of course) & maybe Larsson's fantasy self. When Salandar is accused of murder & becomes the centre of a tabloid-style media circus, Blomkvist stepsin to help his former assitant.

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