The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I have heard amazing things about this book so I decided that it would be a good choice for my next read. To be completely honest I almost gave up on it for the first few chapters. Maybe it was because it expected so much of this book, but I found it completely boring that I almost put it down. But as the book progressed I became more and more engrossed in the book and increasingly happy that I didn't put it down.

A man named Blomkvist is a journalist and in the beginning chapters has been convicted on guilty of publishing libelous material about a man Hans-Erik Wennerström who apparently set him up somehow. His job is to report on those who are corrupt in financing. Blomkvist is really innocent but was convicted so must pay a fine and serve 3 months in jail sometime in the future. Blomkvist works at a magazine named Millenium, but after the conviction feels that he needs a break. He has a sort of odd affair with his co-owner of the magazine Erika Berger.

The next section of the book switches to another set of characters. A man named Armansky who is an older CEO of a security company. Through a turn of events a girl in her twenties name Lizabeth Salander comes to be Armansky's assistant but she turns out to be the best investigator he has ever come by. She is different from anyone else he and many others have ever met. She is reclusive, afraid of being touched, and such a tough exterior.

An assignment that Lisabeth is put on is to investigate Blomkvist and Wennerström's court case. Her immediate thoughts and unproven theories are true about the case. It shows her intelligence and her natural intuition. About a chapter later Blomkvist get a call from the Vanger corporation and they insist a meeting with him, Blomkvist reluctantly agrees and arranges a meeting. Thats where I left off!!!