Week 2
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larrson
Rating: :) :) :) :) :)
The story begins with a prologue: a desolate scene where an old man receives another gift on his 82nd birthday. He dialed the old numbers he knew by heart and called his old friend, a retired detective, who also shared his birthday. Apart from the birth date, Detective Morrell and the old man named Henrik Vanger also shared another thing in common: a baffling case that was left unsolved for 40 years. It was the mysterious disappearance of Henrik's niece, Harriet Vanger, that tore him to pieces especially on his birthday. For 40 consecutive years after her disappearance, Henrik still continues to receive a gift of pressed flowers carefully put into a frame from an unknown sender, which was exactly just like Harriet's signature gift before she disappeared.
by Stieg Larrson
Rating: :) :) :) :) :)
The main content mainly revolves around two protagonists: Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander. This unlikely tandem is truly one remarkable creation from Larsson's brilliant mind. However, these characters would have led two very different lives at the first half of the book.
We find Blomkvist to be the first character introduced as a financial journalist who just received the verdict from the court. He was this type of journalist devoted in exposing any kind of corruption undermining the Swiss financial world. Despite all his efforts and claims, a great downside to his career prevailed. He was caught in a libel case because of a recent exposé that ignited the opposition to strike back at full force. In the end, Blomkvist lost the battle and was charged with a hefty sum, including a sentence to go to jail for 6 months. It was a grueling moment for Blomkvist and so was his magazine called Millennium: co-founded and co-owned with Erika Berger and Christer Malm (of which he was also a publisher).
For the next chapter, our girl with the dragon tattoo named Lisbeth Salander enters the room of her boss. She has a very unique background - a struggling background in fact, but incredibly paved with her high intellectual skills and audacity that kept her from falling hard on the floor. She's also a very gifted investigator, now hired by Dragan Armansky who runs Milton Security. He has discovered that Lisbeth has a knack for finding and digging out the truth, no matter how deep, nonsensical and invasive it was. In the end, Lisbeth always ends up with juicy pages about the subject, making gossip magazines look like rotten tomatoes next her research.
Fast forward.
Blomkvist discovers that he must lay low for a while, if he really wants to save Millennium. Deep inside he knows that his opposer, Wennerstrom, will never give if he is still on board the Millennium. Fortunately, another character steps into Michael Blomkvist's life to turn his world around in more ways than one. Henrik Vanger hires Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet Vanger.
As the story develops, Lisbeth Salander's exemplary investigating skills caught Vanger's attention. Soon, she would end up as Blomkvist's research assistant. Impressed by her immense skills of investigation and undeniable talent of poking through the hole, Blomkvist took her under his wing and knew in some way that she would help him solve the mystery.
Together, they have stumbled on a new breed of clues, a plethora of more puzzling facts and signs that could really keep the reader up all night to finish that certain chapter...or the rest of the book, for that matter. I have been a pawn to this method. /XD
Stieg Larsson is indeed one talented and gifted writer! (forgive me for being so biased! /wahaha ).
The way he presented the story is so cleverly put into order that I can't wait to read the next novel in line for the Millennium Trilogy called The Girl Who Played With Fire. I still have to make some necessary arrangements to get a copy of the book and read it asap! As for now, I still can't get over Lisbeth's crazy, bewildering but very very smart brain. I wish I could have her abilities! /please
We find Blomkvist to be the first character introduced as a financial journalist who just received the verdict from the court. He was this type of journalist devoted in exposing any kind of corruption undermining the Swiss financial world. Despite all his efforts and claims, a great downside to his career prevailed. He was caught in a libel case because of a recent exposé that ignited the opposition to strike back at full force. In the end, Blomkvist lost the battle and was charged with a hefty sum, including a sentence to go to jail for 6 months. It was a grueling moment for Blomkvist and so was his magazine called Millennium: co-founded and co-owned with Erika Berger and Christer Malm (of which he was also a publisher).
For the next chapter, our girl with the dragon tattoo named Lisbeth Salander enters the room of her boss. She has a very unique background - a struggling background in fact, but incredibly paved with her high intellectual skills and audacity that kept her from falling hard on the floor. She's also a very gifted investigator, now hired by Dragan Armansky who runs Milton Security. He has discovered that Lisbeth has a knack for finding and digging out the truth, no matter how deep, nonsensical and invasive it was. In the end, Lisbeth always ends up with juicy pages about the subject, making gossip magazines look like rotten tomatoes next her research.
Fast forward.
Blomkvist discovers that he must lay low for a while, if he really wants to save Millennium. Deep inside he knows that his opposer, Wennerstrom, will never give if he is still on board the Millennium. Fortunately, another character steps into Michael Blomkvist's life to turn his world around in more ways than one. Henrik Vanger hires Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet Vanger.
As the story develops, Lisbeth Salander's exemplary investigating skills caught Vanger's attention. Soon, she would end up as Blomkvist's research assistant. Impressed by her immense skills of investigation and undeniable talent of poking through the hole, Blomkvist took her under his wing and knew in some way that she would help him solve the mystery.
Together, they have stumbled on a new breed of clues, a plethora of more puzzling facts and signs that could really keep the reader up all night to finish that certain chapter...or the rest of the book, for that matter. I have been a pawn to this method. /XD
Stieg Larsson is indeed one talented and gifted writer! (forgive me for being so biased! /wahaha ).
The way he presented the story is so cleverly put into order that I can't wait to read the next novel in line for the Millennium Trilogy called The Girl Who Played With Fire. I still have to make some necessary arrangements to get a copy of the book and read it asap! As for now, I still can't get over Lisbeth's crazy, bewildering but very very smart brain. I wish I could have her abilities! /please
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