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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 | Scandanavian | No Comments
This thriller by Stieg Larsson is pretty shocking, involving lots and lots of female abuse - torture, rape, murder, the works. Each chapter is preceded by a statistic about the rate of abuse in Sweden. As I write this I’m listening to the soundtrack from “As it is in Heaven”, also about wife beating. Is it the Viking heritage or just typical across all societies?
The Girl in the title is an empowered woman who gets back at any abusers and manages to unearth another few. She’s not only tough and smart but the hero decides she has Asperger syndrome too. Dunno about that, but she’s certainly interesting. The novel flies past, but it’s hard to say it’s highly readable due to the really extreme horrific details in it - I don’t think I’ll manage the two sequels.
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