I did it. I finished that epic. Parts of it were page turners. Other parts sounded like a rehash of The Firm only not as good. Some of it was repetitive. Some of it sensationalist and titillating. I got a feeling the author lost track of what he was writing at times and started writing the story over. The interesting part was discovering whether the girl Harriett had been murdered or not. I think the movie could be easily more fascinating than the novel in that much of the novel can be culled. I don’t think the author did a good job of parsing words or maybe it is the translator’s fault as it was originally written in Swedish. I’m glad I read it so I know what the hype is about, but I doubt I’ll go on to read the others.
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