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The girl with the dragon tatto

This was a highly enjoyable book. I have bought it almost 3 years ago and for some reason I could not bring myself to read it. I have read the first pages got bored and droped it, but I never really leave a book for ever I consider it an unforgivable waste so this summer I picked it up again. And it was a wise choice. Now I cannot wait to read the rest of the trilogy.
It has a very interesting plot and a lot of characters. The author creates a complicated story with a lot of aspects but he manages not to leave any loose ends.
Salander is a very unlikely and unorthodox heroine even for a modern crime mystery but she manages to keep your interest and she even makes you to like her. In fact I wish there was a little more of her in the book, but I hope that her appearence and role will escalate in the next two books and I do hope that she and Michael -the other hero of the book- the journalist who actually has ethics and morals, will meet again.
The book has a lot of complicated characters which are very well portraited and its story is not easily predictable. It was only before the end that I managed to guess whta have actually happend to Harriet at least parts of it. For this I have Agatha Christie to thanks and o long history of crime-mystery reading during summer. So when I actually found a book that took me so long to figure out what was going on and still managed to surprise me in some aspects I was absolutely thrilled.
Finally the author talks about some really serious and tabboo issues such as sexual absuse and incest and it makes you confront a hard and unpleasant reality.

The whole trilogy has been adapted for the big screen nad were directed by Niels Arden Oplev
The girl with the dragon tattoo
The girl who played with fire
The girl who kicked the hornests nest
and an american adaptation of "The girl with the dragon tatto" is expected directed by David Fincher , starring Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander . 

I have seen the first swedish movie and although I have heard a lot of praise for it I cannot say I liked it. Not that it was bad or totally uninteresting, but honestly it didn't do the book justice. In my personal opinion they have changed crusial parts of the story. It was not unfaithful to the book, god knows I have seen worst adaptations but as far as I am concerned they simply changed the wrong things. For example they altered the relationship between Michael and Erica and they deminished it to nothing. It was a complicated unsual relationship that showed a great deal for the character of Michael and they should have included it. They also changed the realationship of Michael and Lisbeth in a most crusial and annoying way. In the book its Lisbeth who fells for Michael not the other way around and it was agood think too, because it showed a more 'sentimental' side of her. Furthermore, I didn't like the actress that portaited Lisbeth. She did her best and she wasn't bad , but she failed to capture Lisbeth's essence and her eyes were way to expressive. I mean she was constantly walking around showing emotions while Lisbeth is or better appears to be a cold, little girl with tones of bad attitude who shows absolutely no emotions. And what was all that about Lisbeth's backround?

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