“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson<\/a>. I stumbled upon this book at the Walmart. I was looking for something new to read that wasn\u2019t a magazine or technical manual. I figured that if someone went to the trouble of translating it from Swedish to English it might be pretty good. Fortunately, I was right. For a murder mystery, it took a long time to get to the murders, but I think it\u2019s more than a murder mystery. It\u2019s just a good novel that happens to have a murder as part of the plot. Larsson wrote two other books before he died. I\u2019m waiting for them to come out in English paperback translations so that I can read them too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been a long time since I blogged. I’m paying $11.95 a month for this stupid site so I ought to write something more often. So here is a really short review of a book I read recently. The book is “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson. I stumbled upon this book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}