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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is part one of a three part trilogy called the Millennium Trilogy. The novel was written in Sweden in 2005, by Stieg Larsson. The book sold millions across the world and has been translated into several different languages, including English in 2008. It also has two films, one filmed in 2009, and the most recent one in 2011. I believe the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is one of the best crime novels on the shelves because of the twisting plot lines of the story, the dynamics of the characters, and the style of writing that Stieg Larsson uses. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has unpredictable plot lines that keeps readers craving for more. The readers cannot put the book down, simply because just when they think that they have figured out the book, Stieg Larsson throws at the …show more content…
Since his style of writing is in such great details, he has been able to keep readers on the edge of their seats and craving for more. Not only does he describe everything in such detail that the reader can almost picture Stockholm and the characters that are involved in the story, but also the details that he uses are not the common like “he was wearing a suit and tie” but breaks those detail down even further. A good example of this is how he describes Salander:, “Armansky’s star researcher was a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows. She looked as though she had just emerged from a week-long orgy with a gang of hard rockers” (Larsson p 41). Another example would be, “It was right next to a jetty, with the water three paces from the door. It was only fifteen by eighteen feet but it had such a high ceiling that there was space for a sleeping loft. She could stand up straight there, just.” (Larsson p

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