Through all 590 pages
I love it when I hit the flow! There's nothing quite like it and it beats watching a screen any day. The flow is that magical reading where the words fade into the background and it's like experiencing the story directly in my imagination. It sounds daft whenever I try to explain it, but it really is the best thing ever. I finished my 200 page goal by 11 this morning and just kept going. Before I knew it the book was done.
I remember trying and failing to read this some years ago. I'm really glad I tried again. I can see why it was such a sensation some years ago. Usually a mystery novel has a single mystery to unravel. Once that mystery is solved the book tends to be virtually over. This book had at least three. While they weren't all interconnected, they did fit together in the narrative in a satisfying way.
The relationship between Blomkvist and Salander is. . . unusual. While there is very little explicit material, there is a lot of sex and a lot of sex happening in non-conventional relationships. It didn't really bother me, but it didn't seem necessary. I guess Blomkvist gets portrayed as a extraordinary non-possessive and attractive guy, but I think there were other ways of establishing that. If there was one thing I didn't like about the story, it was how things were left with them at the end of the novel. From a writer's point of view, it's obvious that Larsson was clearly preserving the tension between the two characters for the next book in the series. As a reader, it made me unhappy.
Ok, that all sounded very negative, but I really enjoyed the mystery elements and, while I had a couple of early inklings, I never figured anything out more than a step ahead. It was great.
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