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Release Date: 2010-05-25
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
| This thing is HUGE!! (...that's what she said)So, I buy this book for my lady because she wanted the paperback edition & not the hardcover. I look up the amount of pages on this one to make sure it's not the large print one & all, and the page count is similar to the first 2 of the series in paperback.
So, I'm like, "Great! I'll pay the extra money for it because it's worth it." Yea, right! This book is enormous in size, like a college textbook. You're better off either buying the US hardcover, or just waiting for the newer paperback version. I was feeling bad for my skinny lady because this book made her purse way heavier.
SHE SAID IT'S A GREAT BOOK, but I wouldn't suggest buying this edition because of the size. Stick with the hardcover one for now.
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Release Date: 2009-07-28
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
| Would you like coffee with that?There's a difference between a good storyteller and good writer and Stieg Larsson is not a good writer.
He's a master of the irrelevant detail with a weird fixation on coffee.
His characters "start coffee," "pour coffee," are "impressed" with others' coffee-making skills. I swear F. Scott Fitzgerald did not mention booze as much in all his stories as Larsson mentions coffee in this one book. If Larsson had written "Moby Dick," the opening line would be "Call me Ishmael and join me for a coffee..."
Larson seems to very often miss the point that good thriller writers know about what information to give and what to withhold, and what characters know and what the reader should know and when.
Then there's the needless and draining repetition.
In one tiresome chapter, he gives us a police press conference where all the information (and I mean ALL) is stuff we already know, but is presented again in detail.
There's a 100 page section that's truly risible in its irrelevance. Characters investigate and hit dead ends and "uncover" information we already know. We, the reader, are ahead of the characters, and that's always tedious (unless the characters are being drawn suspenseful into a trap, which is not the case).
As Eric Asimov wrote, you can't wait for Larsson's books to end (as opposed to not wanting them to end) but I have to admit, that despite all their many flaws, I sort of enjoy reading these books. I also spend a lot of time wondering why.
I think it's because, Larsson is a good storyteller, and he creates compelling characters. His Lisbeth Salander is singular pleasure to follow, and whenever she's on the page, the story crackles. Just being inside her head is a perverse pleasure.
I'll probably read the next installment (which is supposed to be much better than "...Played with Fire") and then be glad they're over (but not glad for the reason, of course).
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Release Date: 2010-06-18
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
| Pretty good debut novelThis novel pleasantly surprised me. When I first started reading it I had some misgivings. Without giving anything critical away, early on one of the main characters while driving hits a dog, who she then takes to the vet, who in turn uses 30 stitches to close a chest wound. Nonetheless in a just a couple of hours the dog is walking around, and becomes a companion for the rest of the novel. I thought this was a pretty contrived way for a character to get a pet, and feared this novel was going to be amateur hour. I was wrong.
Except for the above glitch, the novel is basically well written, well thought out, and has shades of Jeffrey Deaver in its plot twists and misdirections. The plot centers around the efforts of a young hotshot Memphis detective and his older partner, whom he reveres as a mentor and father figure, to find a missing socialite. But the novel is much more than a simple mystery and deals with such themes as family relationships, greed, corruption, abuse of power, and pedophilia. Along the way the author does a nice job creating some interesting and believable characters.(I did find it curious that at the end the novel the author listed "Reader Questions" for discussion, which reminded me high school).
This is entertaining and generally good writing. I don't think this novel rises to the level of a really good novel by Jeffrey Deaver or by Southern writers such as Greg Isle or James Lee Burke, but it is pretty good for a debut novel. I enjoyed reading it.
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Release Date: 2010-08-24
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
| Yeah, not too thrilled with Mockingjay **spoilers**I LOVED the first two books. Absolutely loved. I pre-ordered Mockingjay and waited in anticipation for this book to arrive in the mail. I tore into it the second it arrived, and I was just flat out disappointed.
First of all, in the first two books there is much human emotion, connection between the characters, evolving relationships. I felt like there was NONE of that in this book. It was nothing but endless wars and bombs and fighting and planning to fight, and strategy, and filming propos... It was like... allrighttt enough already this book needs more depth!
The only human connection in the book happened with the reunion of Finnick and Annie, it was such a great thing to happen and then Finnick dies by being beheaded by the mutts. Nothing more is said about him. He had such a prominent role in Katniss's life, helping her in her times of sorrow, and by having her back in war, and then he dies, and nothing at all is said. There's no explanation of how Annie took it or how Katniss felt, nothing.
It's within the last 20 pages or so that the book actually picked up to where I actually started to take a liking to it and then the last 3 pages was more or less the author saying, "Well, the book needs to end ... soooo Prim dies, Gale moves, Katniss marries/lives with Peeta, 15 years pass, they have two kids, the end."
There was absolutely no reason for Prim to be killed off either. Was there a shock value Collins was going for? I think so, but it didn't shock me, it totally missed the mark and fell flat. I didn't get the point. Most of her trust worthy friends had been killed, what was the reason for Prim being offed?
I also don't get how for the first two books there is such an intense love coming from Gale and he has such unrequited love, he shows her, and then at the end of this book where Katniss's sister is killed, her friends are dead, she's an emotional disaster, he just goes on with his new big shot job, moves to 2 and never returns. What the hell is that?
There's also no mention of Katniss ever seeing her mother again, so who knows if that even happened...
The ending was the biggest copout of life. There just wasn't much substance to this book at all in my opinion. Any number of things could have been done with the final book, and this whole "War is Bad!" message is sending was a bit over the top. We know war is bad, people die, families are torn apart, but it doesn't need to be shoved in our faces, especially as the final book in a trilogy. This book should have went out with a bang. Instead it just fizzled, sputtered, and died.
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