Read: Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire

I wasn't necessarily planning on reading this book, although I was intrigued - I'd been to see the first movie last spring, and quite enjoyed it (in spite of the brutal rape scenes - how many movies have this many rapes?). I had a suspicion that this might be one of those books that is better as a movie, and I was right. The book is almost all plot, very little atmosphere, and the characterization can be blunt and repetitive. But Larsson does know how to move along the plot! I gobbled this book down over the course of a day - but I'm unlikely to ever re-read it - you get everything out of it that there is in one read.