Has anyone read the Millennium trilogy? I, personally rather liked it, but was very surprised about the success it made around the world. It is good but it isn't great. It is different but it isn't that different. Or is it? anyway i wondered if you know that the fourth book is soom published in Sweden. Larsson died when it was unfinished so his relatives gave the job of finishing it to another guy and he is done know. It will be interesting to see how it works out. I remember the disaster that Jill Paton Walsh made of Dorothy sayers unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel. Hope this is not something like that.
Anybody like Stieg Larsson?
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I enjoyed the first book but the second was boring to me, I had to make myself finish it. I didn't read the third one.
I agree about the second, it is the weakest in the series. The third is better but you really have to know what happened in the second to follow.
Thanks for that! I will have to pick up the third book. I always meant to get around to it, will have to move it up the list of priorities!
I always felt that both the second and, partly, the third could have needed a little more editing. He was already dead when they reached the market so i have a feeling they were rushed through the system to capitalize on his death. Quite unnecessary really. They could have stood on their own feet.
I liked the trilogy, didn't realise he was on a fourth when he died.
I don't know how far he had come but he had started. And then there was this big struggle between his father and brother on one side and his fiance on the other hand. They had lived together for many years but never bothered to make it legal and he didn't write a will so the rights went to father/brother that totally screwed the fiance over. It was rather ugly. And not what he would have wanted. I remember thinking that there where some threads in the third book that we didn't get any answers too. Like what happened to Lisbeth Salanders sister? But i have no idea which direction this book will take.
I haven't read the books, but I saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movie. There were some really graphic parts that I had trouble watching, and decided that the trilogy isn't for me.
I've read the books and really enjoyed the story lines but may be swimming against the tide here by saying I don't think he was that good a writer technically. I wondered if it had anything to do with translations, though. I'd heard about the dispute between the relatives and his fiancé around the time when he died and rumors about his having been murdered rather than it being from natural causes because of his political leanings. Was that ever put to rest? I'll probably read the new one just to see if it answers any questions and hope they have been able to keep the essence of the characters. Loved Lisbeth Salander.
I'v read all three of the books. Found them to be enjoyable and different. Also wondered what might have been lost in translation as the writing style was "off", if you know what I mean.
The next book: The Girl In the Spider's Web due in Sept. 2015.
Kurben- you might ck out this link - perhaps it might say when it will be available in Sweden.
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB
The next book: The Girl In the Spider's Web due in Sept. 2015.
Kurben- you might ck out this link - perhaps it might say when it will be available in Sweden.
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB
Yeah I'd read about the possibility that his death hadn't been from natural causes too... and it really made you wonder after all the conspiracy in his work.
I liked them well enough. Good stories. But I agree with Ms. Mod -- not exactly the best writer. I'll probably check out the new one at some point.
Well, certainly some very rightwing forces would have liked to see him go but i don't think there is any foundations for thinking it a murder. He is basically a journalist and a good one. I agree he isn't a natural writer but they were ok, in swedish at least, but i felt that they should have been more edited. There were sections that should have been shortened and the language tightened but since he died that apparently never happened.
Actually the movie was more graphic then the book. But he doesn't close his eyes for that nasty guys do nasty things.
It is strange how different the titles are. In swedish it is named "Det som inte dödar oss" (That that doesn't kill us) Strange title but there it is. And the girl who kicked a hornets nest is called "The air castle that exploded" in swedish.
I really liked the first book, the other two not so much. I agree he didn't seem like the greatest writer, but it could have been a translation issue, as others have mentioned.
One thing that always struck me as funny was his characters having coffee and sandwiches seemingly every hour of every day. A coworker and I still joke about that. I'm guessing it's a cultural thing.
One thing that always struck me as funny was his characters having coffee and sandwiches seemingly every hour of every day. A coworker and I still joke about that. I'm guessing it's a cultural thing.
I enjoyed the series and will definitely pick up the next. Never saw the movies though. Were those any good?
I've only seen the US version of the first one and enjoyed it but I've heard the Swedish version was better.
Noomi Rapace were brilliant as Lisbeth Salander. Gave her a Hollywood career. That is, the swedish movie of course. In the english one the Salander character was weaker but the male character better. but i preferred the swedish movie as a movie.