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In reply to the discussion: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Empowering or exploitive to women? [View all]truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...I am still unsure how you see this a 'male fantasy', I don't think it was a 'feminist book', but a book that had an emotionally scarred female lead role who was also very intelligent, highly capable, and used other's disdain for her as a source of power...that may, or may not make her a 'feminist'...
I don't speak or read Swedish so I can't properly judge whether it was written well in it's native tongue, but there is a quirkiness about the translation that I find strangely appealing in the same way that I fine the whole Scandinavian/Nordic persona (if there is such a thing) as being interesting in the 'Wallander' series..
I think it is a dark book about a dark and disturbing subject written without pretense or bullshit that captures the essence of the many varied characters involved.
You see it differently.
Fair enough.