I finally gave in to my curiosity and picked up Stieg Larsson’s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. It’s been on border’s best-seller list for a couple of months, and for the past few days, i’ve seen people on the MRT and bus reading it. Besides, lately my tv has been stuck on the c.i. (crime and investigation) channel. I’m fascinated with crimes and mysteries, so the book matches the phase I’m in right now.
I’m not really a fan of mystery thrillers, like the ones James Patterson and James Lee Burke write. I’ve read Sidney Sheldon once, and Christopher Pike during high school, and decided that I can’t keep up with the details in those kinds of books. Surprisingly, I didn’t mind reading Larsson’s first book. Maybe it’s because I liked the girl character (she’s bad-ass).
I didn’t actually picture the male lead looking like this in the book. The girl is close enough. And daniel craig in the hollywood version? I was thinking the guy would look more like Liam Neeson (did you see him in “Taken”?), and the girl, well, they got it right in this movie. please lang, not Natalie Portman, she doesn’t look bad-ass enough.
The sad thing about these books is that the author, stieg larsson, died after he sent the first book to the publishers. So he never got to see how big his books became. I guess that adds to the intrigue surrounding the trilogy. That said, I was intrigued and I’m glad I read it. I’m looking forward to seeing the movie, if it gets shown in Singapore, that is.
