Helpful Score: 2
I'm glad Alan (previous reviewer) enjoyed this so much. Sadly, I cannot second his opinion.
Yes, it had some laughs, a few good parts, and played off Stieg Larssen's "Millenium Trilogy" well, but I found much of it tedious, some meme's overdone, and the entire plot not up to "high camp/ farce" snuff. (It's certainly no "Doon!" which was funny on its face; but if you were familiar with "Dune," it was hysterical.) With "The Girl With the Sturgeon Tattoo," you absolutely need to have read Stieg's books to get any appreciation at all. As a stand-alone story, you're just "Whaaaaa..?"
Avoid like the plague if you've never read Stieg; if you have, you're taking a chance. (Reviews seem to be split on love it vs "enh.")
Yes, it had some laughs, a few good parts, and played off Stieg Larssen's "Millenium Trilogy" well, but I found much of it tedious, some meme's overdone, and the entire plot not up to "high camp/ farce" snuff. (It's certainly no "Doon!" which was funny on its face; but if you were familiar with "Dune," it was hysterical.) With "The Girl With the Sturgeon Tattoo," you absolutely need to have read Stieg's books to get any appreciation at all. As a stand-alone story, you're just "Whaaaaa..?"
Avoid like the plague if you've never read Stieg; if you have, you're taking a chance. (Reviews seem to be split on love it vs "enh.")
Helpful Score: 1
this is a delightful parody of stieg larsson's "the girl with the dragoon tattoo" trilogy. written under a pseudonym by a professor at tufts, the laughs are non-stop.
one must have read at least the first two of larsson's books in order to appreciate just how funny this parody is. the book is all of 200 pages long, and i literally had to stop reading at least 175 times because 1)i was laughing too hard and my stomach hurt, or 2) i was crying so hard from laughing that i couldn't see!
i'll not give away anything about the book except one tiny throwaway line from early in the book; the protagonist "sat in the rectangular 1015-square-foot main reading room." think about it. :)
this is beyond heller's "catch-22." this is beyond national lampoon's "bored of the rings" and "doon." this is the funniest book i've ever read! don't miss it!
one must have read at least the first two of larsson's books in order to appreciate just how funny this parody is. the book is all of 200 pages long, and i literally had to stop reading at least 175 times because 1)i was laughing too hard and my stomach hurt, or 2) i was crying so hard from laughing that i couldn't see!
i'll not give away anything about the book except one tiny throwaway line from early in the book; the protagonist "sat in the rectangular 1015-square-foot main reading room." think about it. :)
this is beyond heller's "catch-22." this is beyond national lampoon's "bored of the rings" and "doon." this is the funniest book i've ever read! don't miss it!
John O. (buzzby) -
National Lampoon style humor, it could be them for all I know, no real sign of the true author in the book.
