Title: The Girl with the Dragon TattooAuthor: Stieg Larsson
I'd read some negative reads of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo around Goodreads, and that had me curious. It kept showing up in my "suggested reads" at Amazon.com, so I decided to reserve it at the library, knowing based on my friends' recommendations that I may end up hating it.
I'm a fan of the mystery, thriller, potboiler genre, in limited quantities. I liked The DaVinci Code, but bored with Dan Brown after reading Angels and Demons soon on its heels. Same story with John Grisham-- he held my attention for The Firm and The Pelican Brief, but Playing for Pizza? Not so much. I started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on a Friday night, and came up for air on Sunday afternoon when the book was done. It's definitely a thriller in the vein of Grisham or Harlan Coben, but it's very engaging and well-done. The characters of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomquist kept me rooting for them, despite their obvious flaws. In fact, I liked the book so much that I ordered the second book in the Milennium Trilogy from England so I wouldn't have to wait until it was published in America this summer. After finishing the first book, I was disappointed that Larsson died after only writing three books instead of the ten that people speculate he was planning, but we'll see if he holds my interest through the next two books in the series.
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Dear fellow Stieg Larsson fan,
We’re trying something new for the launch of the second book in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.
Run your own Stieg Larsson contest on your blog—for which we will provide the prizes (a free copy of The Girl Who Played with Fire, cool temporary dragon tattoos). The first thirty (30) entrants will get first dibs of the translated manuscript of book three. Below you’ll find the complete rules and regulations.
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RULES & REGULATIONS
The first 250 bloggers to enter their information (name, blog name, blog URL mailing address, and daytime phone number) will obtain the giveaway material (one (1) copy of The Girl who Played with Fire and a batch of temporary tattoos) to host a sweepstakes on their blog. The first 30 bloggers to enter will also receive (1) copy of the manuscript of the third Stieg Larsson thriller at the time of its in-house release. All applications to participate will have to be received by 11:59 pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on August 15, 2009. U.S. Residents only. Bloggers are solely responsible for the administration of the sweepstakes on their blogs.
Thanks,
The A.A. Knopf Marketing Team
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