If you read the Dragon Tattoo series

[SpartanGirl]

Were the 2nd and 3rd books hard to get into? I've only read the first book, and while I liked it, it was so painfully slow at first that I nearly gave up a few times. I want to keep reading, but I'm not sure I have it in me if it's going to be just as hard to get into the next book.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Yes. I found all three hard to get into, especially the third, but keep reading. As I recall, they both pick up pretty quickly, and they're well worth it!

[angnshaun]

I didnt find them hard to get into only the first.

[missmaddie]

I found the 1st slow to pick up, but the 2nd was much quicker to get into. I thought the 3rd was easy to get into since it seemed to pick up right where the 2nd ended (like the first chapter of 3 could have been another chapter in 2). I did find I was losing interest in 3 by reading it so soon after 2.

[sparrowsong]

i don't know, I read them all pretty fast. When it was all blah blah blah about business whatever, I might have skimmed a bit.

[aurora]

The second was easier than the first, and the third was very easy to get into (in my opinion).

[marytini]

I thought the 1st was the most diffucult to get into. I don't recall having a problem with 2 or 3.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

There is still detail overkill (I don't care who went to Burger King and got the vegetarian burger) in the 2nd and 3rd books, but I liked the 2nd and third books a lot more than the first.

[christy082]

May 18, 2012 21:35:32 GMT -5 missmaddie said:

I found the 1st slow to pick up, but the 2nd was much quicker to get into. I thought the 3rd was easy to get into since it seemed to pick up right where the 2nd ended (like the first chapter of 3 could have been another chapter in 2). I did find I was losing interest in 3 by reading it so soon after 2.

I agree with this exactly.

[whitepicketfence]

I haven't read the 3rd book yet, but the 2nd was much easier for me to get into than the 1st.

[pthermal]

I only had a problem with the 1st one. I really liked the 2nd and 3rd.

[mollymoe]

I didn't find the books hard to get into but I think I'm in the minority because I actually liked the first book better than the other two.

The first book could almost be a stand alone book from the series. The other two books were about Lisbeth.

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[secretlyevil]

I felt like two and three were much easier to get into. I didn't really get into the first one until the late 200s.

[dutchgirl678]

No, just the first one was kind of slow to get going.

[cookergirl]

I'm glad to hear this! I want to finish the series, but didn't want to waste my time if they were going to take forever to get into the meat of the story.

[lemondrop]

I haven't read the third book yet, but I really liked the story in the first two. They were a little slow at first with the major action in the last 1/4 of the book. If you didn't really enjoy or get into book one, I don't think you'd like two.

[LoveTrains]

I also found the first book painfully slow at first. So much detail, so much stuff about Sweden and Stockholm that I just didn't understand nor cared to look up (like Olaf Plame or what have you). But I am glad I stuck with it because I thought it got VERY good at the end and then I loved the second and third books. I didn't find the second or third books to be slow at all.

[SpartanGirl]

Thanks everyone! I'm glad to hear books 2 and 3 are quicker to pick up. I really enjoyed the first book once it got going.

[mrshandy]

The second and third were much easier to get into than the first.

[lemondrop]

I just started the third one last night, and it is so much quicker.

[trigal]

Yes, the pace picks up. I liked all three of them.