{"id":190,"date":"2010-10-16T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2011-08-28T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:52:54","slug":"book-7-of-52-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/book-7-of-52-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 7 (of 52) &#8211; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Girl-Dragon-Tattoo-Stieg-Larsson\/dp\/0307454541\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1287255200&amp;sr=8-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/bestsellers\/1\/0\/F\/6\/-\/-\/Girl_Dragon_Tattoo.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/feministhemes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/girl_dragon_tattoo1.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson&#8217;s debut novel, was a gripping read that easily draws a reader into\u00a0a world of intrigue and mystery.\u00a0 While there are many things that could potentially draw the readers focus away from the story (the Sweedish setting, the extreme violence towards women), Larsson&#8217;s story is able to easily overcome those obstacles.\u00a0 There&#8217;s been much debate over the casting for the American film version, and with good reason.\u00a0 The characters, especially Lisbeth Salander,\u00a0stick with you and the faces given to them on the big screen will have a lot to live up to.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very much looking forward to picking up the next book in the series, as well as the forth coming film.\u00a0 Hell, I may even try to see the Swedish film, which has become a worldwide hit in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>The story behind this book and its two sequels in the so-called Millennium Trilogy\u00a0is almost as intriguing as the books themselves.\u00a0 All three have been published posthumously, after the author wrote them for his own pleasure and made no attempt to sell them to a publisher until shortly before his untimely death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson&#8217;s debut novel, was a gripping read that easily draws a reader into\u00a0a world of intrigue and mystery.\u00a0 While there are many things that could potentially draw the readers focus away from the story (the Sweedish setting, the extreme violence towards women), Larsson&#8217;s story is able to easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40,274,755,273,767],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-books","tag-lisbeth-salander","tag-millennium-trilogy","tag-stieg-larsson","tag-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}