I honestly found this book so boring. I'd watched the movie a while back and managed to block out how much of it was about rape. If I had remembered that, I probably wouldn't have read this at all. But I did, and it wasn't so awful that I won't attempt the other two books in the trilogy written by Larsson. Once he got past the pointless drivel and inconsequential actions (pages and pages of stuff that didn't matter), it was pretty okay. I'd have liked it a fair bit better if it was half the length. Dull and generic characters and a plot that didn't really fill the almost 650 pages made this whole read tedious. Not the worst, but I find myself confused by all the hype.