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❓ What It's About Michael Blomkvist, a journalist, gets hired to solve a 40-year-old mystery concerning the sudden disappearance of a young girl from a hateful family that never got along. The story escalates and gets to a whole new and unexpected level of severe crime and cruelty that no one could have ever imagined. 🧠 Thoughts Overview First and foremost, I have to confess that this book isn't an easy read at all; whether it be for the extreme cruelty in the book, or the first couple of chapters which were very difficult to get through.  The first couple of chapters introduce the protagonist of the book who is a journalist. The thing with these chapter is that they contain a lot of technical terms concerning politics and journalism. Then after a couple of chapters, something sparked my idle interest. The book then dives into the mystery of Harriet Vagner's sudden disappearance that occurred forty years before. After solving the mystery, the book again returns to the s...

⛰ What It's About Fight club's about someone (no name mentioned) who suffers from insomnia and midlife crisis. He lives a stereotypical life, in which he toils to earn money in order to buy things that the society has deemed necessary. He gets to know Tyler Durden who's more of a charismatic person than he is. They create fight club together which develops, as time goes by, into a huge destructive project, which is project mayhem, with devastating aims. 🧠 Thoughts Self Destruction “Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.” Tyler thinks that man improves himself because of pain and sacrifice. You improve in something by experiencing difficulties and not by taking the easy short path. For example, when you hit the gym, your muscles aches but this makes you stronger. You should feel the pain (or as Tyler labels it: self-destruction) and you should be comfortable with it because this is what makes you a better person. Hitting Rock ...