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09-10-2010, 12:14 PM #1
Stieg Larsson
I'm surprised no one has mentioned his books yet, but nothing turned up when I did a search. Anyway, I figured since I was visiting Sweden this summer it would be a good time to read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I didn't get to it until after my trip, but I'm just about finished now and I've got to say it's kept me up late the last few nights. It definitely hooks you in. Not to say this is high art or anything, but a great read for sure. If you've got a long flight or something start this book and you won't close it until you hear the announcement to return your seat to the upright position.
I noticed the Swedish movie of the book is available for streaming on Netflix. Anyone watched it yet?
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09-10-2010, 12:34 PM #2
Not a bad book by any means, but not worth all the hype it gets. There's also some interesting context added to the books when you read about Larson's personal life / the handling of his estate (he died). Larson seems like a pretty weird guy.
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09-10-2010, 12:39 PM #3....................
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Yeah, I've read the whole trilogy and really enjoyed it. Many late nights. Some of the hacking stuff Lisbeth pulls off seems like fantasy to me but I forgive that because I'm rooting so hard for her. Great bad guys, good suspense, etc. 4.5 stars.
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09-10-2010, 08:17 PM #4Registered User
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Saw the Dragon movie without reading the book - really liked it, so read the next one (fire), but was disappointed; even more so by the fire movie. Doubt I'll go for the trifecta.
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09-10-2010, 10:47 PM #5
Movie was well done i thought. I had started to read the book when I saw the movie, but now I just can't find the energy to dig back in. I just finished The Passage by Justin Cronin prior to this, so I'm all amped up on gratuitous apocalyptic zombie fiction and it's hard to switch gears.
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09-15-2010, 12:44 AM #6kimsmarkin Guest
Stieg Larsson was best known for his fight against racism and right extremism. Since late 1970, combined his work as a graphic designer at conferences on the far right of the Scotland Yard.
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04-18-2012, 12:47 PM #7
I'm surprised there hasn't been a thread started on the Millennium series books.
I watched parts of the English version after reading reading Dragon. I found the subtitled trilogy on sale and am planning on watching them since I just finished reading Hornets.
I thought the English version of Dragon was ok, if you hadn't read the book. So many details had to be skipped to keep the movie less than 4hrs long. I'm interested to see how the Swedish version will tie all the stories together without being ridiculously long.
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04-19-2012, 08:02 AM #8
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04-19-2012, 04:10 PM #9
He probably meant "before now."
I found the books very enjoyable reads, highly entertaining.
The movie was okay, but if you hadn't read the book some of it wouldn't make any sense. For example, in the movie Lizbeth delivers her report on Blomkvist at the security agency and she makes note of his long-running affair with Berger. It's obvious she knows what the deal is with Blomkvist and Berger but then at the end of the movie she's all upset when she sees him with her.
My nephew has seen the Swedish version of the movie and said it's much better and also much more graphic. I'll have to find a copy of it....Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...
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04-19-2012, 04:35 PM #10Banned
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Lisbeth gets upset in the end of the book after seeing Blomkvist with Berger, too... not because she didn't know, but because she was in love with him...
I have seen the Swedish version of the movie (Amazon instant video, if you want to see it, it was just a couple bucks, and they have a dubbed version if you don't want to deal with subtitles) and I enjoyed it, but felt like it moved really fast and left out a lot of details, and the rape scene was REALLY graphic, like pornography graphic, and just as brutal as the book, so if you or whomever you are going to watch it with is sensitive to that sort of thing, a warning would be good..
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04-19-2012, 04:46 PM #11
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04-19-2012, 07:18 PM #12
I know, it was just that the movie really didn't get inside her head like the book did so as I said, if you hadn't read the book you might have found that part of the movie didn't ring true. In the movie she comes across as this totally emotionless machine which is the facade she presents to the world, the book gives you much better insight into her character.
Huh. That'll teach me to not look at the date of the OP....Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...
"I enjoy skinny skiing, bullfights on acid..." - Lacy Underalls
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04-19-2012, 07:25 PM #13
Ok. This is got me wondering.
Who was the dead girl buried in the forest outside the warehouse? And what happened to Salander's sister?
My guess is that the unidentified dead girl was her sister.
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04-19-2012, 08:33 PM #14
Am I the only one who feels these books were rated so highly only because the author is dead? The first book was below average and I never got past 100 pages in the 2nd.
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04-19-2012, 09:56 PM #15Banned
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