{"id":1345,"date":"2010-06-18T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:07:11","slug":"the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-by-stieg-larsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was reading the online New York Times a week or so ago and they discussed the literary phenomenon of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson a Swedish author who wrote the three books and then died. His books became a posthumous best seller. I said “What, a best selling series that doesn’t involve vampires and whiny teenage girls.” How come I’ve never heard of it?<\/p>\n

So I picked up a paperback copy and started reading. I was hooked. bad. It is a crime novel set in a small town in Sweden. It features Mikael Blomkvist a journalist who lost his mojo and a criminal libel trial and is facing a short prison term and his eventual sidekick, Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker\/investigator who Blomkvist suspects has Asperger’s Syndrome. Lisbeth is one tough girl. She is nobody to mess with. The original Swedish title of the book translates as “Men who Hate Women.” The guys that mess with Lisbeth eventually get their butts kicked, hard by this 90 pound woman.<\/p>\n

Blomkvist is offered a job to solve a long standing missing persons case of somebody who disappeared from a small island in Sweden over 34 years ago. He starts on his investigation and things get very interesting very quickly then they get dangerous, very dangerous. This is one of those books you can’t put down. Or at least I couldn’t. It is full of intrigue and evil people, but no vampires and no whining.<\/p>\n

I give this book four stars out of four. I have already bought the second book in the trilogy, “The Girl who Played with Fire,” on my Kindle. The Kindle price is the same as the paperback price, about $7.99 or so. I’ll do that. The last book in the trilogy,”The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest” is out in hardback now. It is under $10 bucks for the Kindle version so I’ll do that also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading the online New York Times a week or so ago and they discussed the literary phenomenon of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson a Swedish author who wrote the three books and then died. His books became a posthumous best seller. I said “What, a best selling series that doesn’t involve vampires and whiny teenage girls.” How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}