alobear | Dragon Tattoos and Improv Comedy

Last night, we went to see a really cool improv comedy show, where five extremely talented men made up plays, songs, poems, and monologues based on subjects selected by the audience - in the style of Shakespeare, Chaucer and the like. It was all incredibly impressive and highly entertaining. When they asked for books people had with them, I presented Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, which turned out to be the least esoteric of the four chosen - the others being Heidegger, Walt Whitman, and some kind of science/astronomy tome that was largely incomprehensible.

The other book I had in my bag at the time (Barchester Towers is actually being read by Dave at present) was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, which I finished on the way home. I found it engaging enough to get through to the end, but not much more than that. It seemed to me to be a fairly standard mystery thriller, with the advantage of one quite interesting character (the title one), but the disadvantage of large sections of rather dull and sometimes seemingly irrelevant exposition. I may well get round to the other two in the trilogy at some point, but they won't be high on my list.