I loved these books

[mikey2much]

I have been reading the books written by Stieg Larsson, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', The Girl Who Played With Fire', and 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest', have any of you guys read these books? I think that they are great; the way he runs the plot line through three big novels without ever getting boring is fantastic.

 

[jomar]

I agree

I'm on Hornets Nest right now. Heard a discussion on NPR (Diane Rhem) and like the way one guest described them...Tattoo is a locked room mystery, Fire is a police procedure story and Hornet's Nest is political.

A series I'll hate to finish!

 

[cloudy]

I think Larsson died before any of them were even published, and I think there's a fourth book that he didn't quite manage to finish before he was gone. There are even rumors that there are partial manuscripts of a fourth and fifth in the series.

Really sad for us readers that he never got to finish. I loved them, too.

 

[mikey2much]

I had a different take on it.

I thought that the first book was a way to introduce us to the people involved, the second book rounded out our knowledge of, and further fleshed out Lisbeth, setting the stage for the finial conflict in the last book.

 

[Austin8]

I thought that the first book was a way to introduce us to the people involved, the second book rounded out our knowledge of, and further fleshed out Lisbeth, setting the stage for the finial conflict in the last book.

There could have been as many as 10 books written we will never know. Cloudy is right, Larsson died during the writing of the 4th book, he got the beginning and the end no middle.

There has been some talk of his companion finishing up the forth book since the first three have obtained such a following and she worked with him closely on them, but Swedish law forbids it.

 

[mikey2much]

It's a shame the way things turned out

If I understand it correctly he died before they were published and he didn’t leave a will. His common law wife of over twenty years was left with nothing under the law, while his father and brother, who he had nothing to do with, got everything.

His common law wife did retain possession of his lap top and a forth book was almost complete on it. I think he wanted to write a series of ten books but he only finished the first three.

 

[mikey2much]

There are movies if you want them

They made these books into movies in Sweden and they did a very good job on them too. If you have netflix you can watch the first two movies now and the third in a couple of weeks or so.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

I've been tempted to try those books, but after falling into the trap of buying several books that were raved about that I ended up hating, I couldn't decide whether to take the chance. What's the style like?

 

[Austin8]

I've been tempted to try those books, but after falling into the trap of buying several books that were raved about that I ended up hating, I couldn't decide whether to take the chance. What's the style like?

Hey B! longtime no see, I wouldnt have even responded to this poster but I saw Jomar.

Do a google search on the authors name Stieg Larsson or the millennium series. You should get a feel for the style.

Happy New Year B!

 

[jomar]

Bianca - I checked them out of the library.

The style...hmmm, unsentimental comes to mind for some reason. You might go to Amazon and read a snippet.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Hey Austin *hugs* Happy New Year to you too. I think I will check it out. And that's a good idea, Jomar. I do that sometimes, but I was hesitant about looking into it just because of the hype.

Hey B! longtime no see, I wouldnt have even responded to this poster but I saw Jomar.

Do a google search on the authors name Stieg Larsson or the millennium series. You should get a feel for the style.

Happy New Year B!

 

[jomar]

...And that's a good idea, Jomar. I do that sometimes, but I was hesitant about looking into it just because of the hype.

Some of the hype and raised expectations is the circus surrounding the books. They're good, not the greatest, but they're worth spending time with. So is "A Confederacy of Dunces"...published 11 years after the authors suicide.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Some of the hype and raised expectations is the circus surrounding the books. They're good, not the greatest, but they're worth spending time with. So is "A Confederacy of Dunces"...published 11 years after the authors suicide.

Awesome. Hopefully, I'll like the style (unsentimental actually sounds strangely appealing). I should come here more often for suggestions on good reads.