More evidence for my solidifying theory that anything you see being read on public transport, more than about once, is rubbish.
The central mystery of the Millennium trilogy: why it is so popular.
However much the book was revised, it should have been revised more. The opening may have been reworked, as Gedin says, but it still features an episode – somebody telling somebody else at length (twelve pages!) about a series of financial crimes peripheral to the main plot – that, by wide consensus, is staggeringly boring…
Elsewhere, there are blatant violations of logic and consistency. Loose ends dangle. There are vast dumps of unnecessary detail. When Lisbeth goes to IKEA, we get a list of every single thing she buys…
The jokes aren't funny. The dialogue could not be worse. The phrasing and the vocabulary are consistently banal.
