{"id":1263,"date":"2010-09-13T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","slug":"book-log-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/i> by Stieg Larsson (translated by Reg Keeland)<\/p>\n<p>I see this book on several desks here at work, and on chairs at the pool.  Usually, this means I don&#8217;t have much of an interest, when you&#8217;re talking of Clive Cusslers and that ilk.<\/p>\n<p>But I liked this book quite a bit, and I look forward to trying the other &#8220;The Girl with&#8230;&#8221; books.  It had a decent mystery, smooth writing, and interesting characters.  There&#8217;s no hint of oddness at being translated, which is a tribute to Keeland.<\/p>\n<p>I note that I&#8217;ve read two books in a row about late-30&#8217;s men having relationships with an 18-25 year old.  This is purely unintentional, and I wonder if I&#8217;m being demographically targeted in some way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (translated by Reg Keeland) I see this book on several desks here at work, and on chairs at the pool. Usually, this means I don&#8217;t have much of an interest, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[494,457],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}