I don't see what the fuss is about! It is just your everyday run-of-the-mill grisly action flick, with a healthy dose of sexual perversion and biblical references thrown in to satisfy the weird and the whacky. Luckily, the dry, factual style made the characters and situations feel distant and actively unevocative. The only part that drew any emotion from me was (SPOILER ALERT!) the sense of "yessss! take that, asshole!" at the ample response Lisbeth Salander doles out to Nils Bjurman. Otherwise, the book felt like it was intentionally titillating, pandering, sensationalising.
OK- I just wiki-ed the book and found that the reason Larsson's books deal with so much sexual perversion was that "Larsson, who was disgusted by sexual violence, witnessed the gang rape of a young girl when he was 15. He never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, whose name was Lisbeth - like the young heroine of his books, herself a rape victim, which inspired the theme of sexual violence against women in his books." Now I feel bad. Ignore previous paragraph.
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