I can't believe this is an international best seller. The dialogue is wooden, there's way too much description (how many times do we need to hear that the protagonist had coffee? and why do we care what chair he sat in?), and the murder mystery never builds any suspense.
I read on Wikipedia that Larsson wrote this and other books just for himself in his spare time. This one read like it, and it's shocking that the book wasn't heavily edited before publishing. At 100,000 words instead of 200,000 the book may have been more bearable.
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