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The Dragon With The Girl Tattoo (2011)

by Adam Roberts(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0575100915 (ISBN13: 9780575100916)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Gollancz

review 1: As a parody, the book was somewhat alright. The plot did follow the original closely but had its own twists.The story was easy enough to follow, but slowly lost energy as the climax in the book was met. When i finally found out that the knot of the problem was being unraveled, the book was nearly over making for a short lived amount of action for this particular novel. Overall, the book was okay for the time being and fulfilled the void between books
review 2: I side-eyed this book on the library shelf and read the back of some of the author's other books before grabbing it and self-checking it out before anyone noticed. Not the most highbrow of books, clearly.In the end though, although I got about halfway through, I had to give to give it up for an unusual re... moreason: too much humorous dragon rape. There were some good jokes, such as riffing on the "anti-climactic" nature of the parodied book and a reference to dragons' dirty reading material as "Pernography". By the way, if you didn't laugh at that, there is nothing for you here.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo built up a great deal of trust with me in its depiction of sexual violence. No matter how bad it got, it wasn't glamourised and its perpetrators were always punished. Now that we're redoing it, but with dragons, the same scenes are back. I don't know whether the author felt he had to parody Lizbeth's rape because that was part of the original or if he thought he could make it work as humour or if he intended to make them as creepy as the original and offer a break from the humour or... Well, I don't know. The result was not good, regardless.Avoid. less

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