Talk:The Girl Who Played with Fire

Dag Svensson's girlfriend: Johansson or Bergman?
It looks like the english translators decided "Bergman" wasn't a good last name for Dag Svensson's girlfriend, and changed it to "Johansson". My copy, which is a Spanish translation, shows her as "Mia Bergman", as does the cast for the swedish film , and the swedish wikipedia entry.

I'm wondering, should this be included in this entry? I'm not sure, on one hand the original work seems to call her Bergman, but on the other hand you could argue that this english entry deals with the english version of the book. Maybe something like "Mia Johansson ('Mia Bergman' in the original swedish)" would do?

167.107.191.217 (talk) 13:34, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Fermat's Theorem
New to wikipedia, so I'm not too sure how to add comments to the edited tag. However the book I have, has correctly translated Fermat's equation of x^n + y^n = z^n, to quote, "was general for all numbers having having a power of more than 2".... The previous edit suggested that the book misquoted Fermat, suggesting it was only for n=3, or x^3 + y^3 = z^3, as being not possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.102.21.172 (talk) 03:52, 1 August 2010 (UTC) There is already alot of criticism on the net for the horrible treatment of math in this book. For instance if you search foor "dragon tattoo gowers" you'll get a discussion of the topic by a known mathematician. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.66.235.247 (talk) 16:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Plot copyvio?
Is it copied from somewhere? Seems very blurby. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.172.81.201 (talk) 15:42, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

There's too many grammatical errors, I think, for it to be copied. I agree it needs a rewrite. I would, but it's been ages since I read it. I don't think I'd do the best job. 77.253.77.210 (talk) 07:34, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

The plot summary is incomplete. The plot needs to be finished. Include the ending and a spoiler alert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.97.112.131 (talk) 00:55, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

I wholly agree that the plot needs a serious rewrite. Can I help? Shuipzv3 (talk) 09:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Maybe I can give it a stab as I am currently reading the book and can edit as I go... maybe I can do the big revamp and everyone else can check the work to ensure accuracy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Javaduke95 (talk • contribs) 02:48, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

I finished putting up the plot synopsis. I do think it's a bit on the long side but at least includes the ending, and I believe it has all the major events. Did not include a spoiler alert because the Wikipedia guidelines state that a spoiler alert is implicit in the title "Synopsis." Javaduke95 (talk) 16:10, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Book Cover
Hey could someone please post the cover image for this book? It bothers me that it is absent! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smaley1 (talk • contribs) 11:56, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Now has cover image GrahamHardy (talk) 15:11, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Critique
Having read the 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', I don't think this second book in the series is quite so good. The plot is rather over-detailed in places describing what Lisbeth Salandar and Mikael Blomquist are getting up to - do we really need to know exactly wha the former is always buying on her shopping trips? At one point, for example, the books is rather like an advertisement for an Ikea catologue when Salandar is buying household furniture for her new apartment. The middle section also gets rather turgid in terms of the endless debate as to who could have killed the young journalist and his partner. I think he could also have given more focus to the activities of the sex trade thugs and what they get up to in Sweden.

However, overall, it is again better than you average detective story and so well worth reading. Ivankinsman (talk) 18:59, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Plot Question
When Lisbeth is attacked outside the Lundagatan apartment is it actually explained what she is doing there? By that point she is living at her new expensive apartment but is leaving her old place. Is it explained or do we just assume she was checking her mail or something? RoyalBlueStuey (talk) 14:02, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm in the process of reading it right now. She was walking to her car ("Salander heard a sound... just as she was putting the key in the door of the Honda") so likely not just checking her mail. However overall it is difficult to know exactly what she intends to do -- I'm not even sure if it's a key event in the book other than to mark the first contact between MB and LS since Wennerström. Javaduke95 (talk) 02:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Gunnar Björck or Björk?
Halfway through the article, Gunnar gets a C added to his last name. The Swedish version of the article spells it without a C. Could someone check the spelling in (the English version of) the book and make it consistent? DBlomgren (talk) 15:35, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Addition of ISBN from Wikidata
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