Janet CollinsCrime Stories
January 18th 2010 04:31
Crime spurns so many industries doesn’t it? TV, film and books have made more money out of crime that the criminals themselves. You only have to look at the crime section in book shops to see just how popular crime stories are.
I am quite partial to reading crime myself even though I never quite know what drives me to it. It probably has more to do with the fact I see it as a world quite apart from my own.
In the last week, I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is the first crime novel I have read for a long time and I think I must be one of the last in the world to get around to reading this one.
It is by no means the most perfect novel ever written and some of the characters seem a little lacking and the story itself is somehow a little far fetched. It got me in though and I couldn’t get enough of it. It was such a page-turner that it took me only a few days to finish it. That says something for me because I read so many other things than books these days that when I read a novel it usually takes me quite a while to get through it.
Although I have been late to discover this one, I dare say there are some who haven’t found this gem of a crime novel yet. For them, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is worth a read.
The most absorbing character in the novel has to be the investigator, Lisbeth Salander, who is a 20-something bi-sexual, has a dubious background and is pretty much a social outcast. She is also clever with a photographic memory and is a brilliant computer hacker.
The story has dark undertones. The original title translated to “Men Who Hate Women” gives a clearer indication of the author’s view from the darker depths of society. It may be a little gruesome at times and may sometimes be far fetched but it is a page-turner.
Author Stieg Larsson dropped dead before his novels were published and has never enjoyed the success of them. The Millennium series has become something of a phenomenon and I can clearly understand why. Movies have now been made of them all and there are Lisbeth Salander fan sites popping up everywhere.
Crime is certainly fun to read and I can't wait to get my hands on the next instalment.
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