{"id":551,"date":"2009-11-22T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2009-11-29T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:24:53","slug":"the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-who-played-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Who Played with Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just a brief foray back into the self-restricted world of fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Larsson's home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stieglarsson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stieg Larsson<\/a> showed up on my radar a month or two ago on a<a title=\"much-better-than-Dan-Brown list\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstpost.co.uk\/53500,news-comment,news-politics,dont-buy-dan-brown-s-the-lost-symbol-read-these-books-instead-review\" target=\"_blank\"> list of authors to read instead of Dan Brown<\/a>.\u00a0 Then <em>The Economist<\/em> ran a <a title=\"Economist review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/books\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14743378\" target=\"_blank\">positive review of his Millennium Trilogy<\/a> last month.\u00a0 I started <a style=\"&quot;border:none\" title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307454541?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=relaxandhavef-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307454541&quot;&gt;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a> on Wednesday and could not put it down.\u00a0 What a page-turner.\u00a0 I found an export paperback copy of <a style=\"&quot;border:none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307269981?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=relaxandhavef-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307269981&quot;&gt;The Girl Who Played with Fire&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/a> in the Mexico City airport yesterday and finished it today.\u00a0 I agree with the critics.\u00a0 These are fascinating thrillers with complex characters, intriguing plot lines, and some very disturbing images.\u00a0 Incredible.\u00a0\u00a0 Not sure how long I can hold out before I have to read some edition of <a style=\"&quot;border:none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/030726999X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=relaxandhavef-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=030726999X&quot;&gt;The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#8217;s Nest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>We now return to our regularly scheduled, non-fiction programming.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief foray back into the self-restricted world of fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Stieg Larsson showed up on my radar a month or two ago on a list of authors to read instead of Dan Brown. Then The Economist ran a positive review of his Millennium Trilogy last month. I started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}