Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy

[KP the nut]

A plus of the English movie is Daniel Craig :inlove::rolleyes:

 

[maddog]

Holy dooly, Daniel Craig is in it? How could I not have known that.

That's it, watching the movie has rocketed to the top of my very disorganised to-do list. Yikes, Daniel Craig can come and hide out in my summer cabin any time he likes...

Sadly, I won't be lining up for the Swedish versions - sub-titles are more than a slight inconvenience when you can't see, and my Swedish extends about as far as having once worked with a Swedish girl named Pernilla, who, ironically, is Blomkvist's almost irrelevant daughter from the story.

Oh well, as predicted, I spent most of the night playing with fire and am almost done with it now.

Truly outstanding reading, I've been dragged kicking and screaming into the depths of the story now and am well and truly hooked and hog-tied. Excellent, well-paced suspense, my only criticism being that my somewhat foggy brain finds it difficult to keep track of all the Swedish names at times and has to pause to remind myself who is who every few pages. I considered developing a relational family tree of sorts, but couldn't spare the time away from the book.

And I think I'm going to take up boxing... seriously.

Even only partway through the trilogy, I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone who likes an intellectually-stimulating, high-action suspense tale, and don't be perturbed by the possibility of graphic scenes - they are few and far between and the detail could be skimmed without losing any of the value of the storyline.

Maddog

 

[maddog]

Ok, have just finished book 2 and am failingly fighting the urge to dive into the 3rd straight away.

Seriously, this has been the healthiest distraction I have lost myself in for a good while - has almost swallowed away an entire long weekend.

The ceaseless cynic in me, who can't ever quite be silenced, was slightly incredulous at the implausability of the final scenes... Lizbeth's feats while rushing about with her head blown open struck me as more than a little unlikely, and I cannot help but think that she was finally dealt all of the good luck she had been denied her whole life, all in the space of a couple of hours... but other than that, the story was gripping to the final word.

For anyone who has the strange (though not unheard of apparently) urge to read only the last book and try to pick up on the storyline at this point, I would discourage it - there's no way you could comprehend what has taken place without having followed every twist and turn of the story.

And I do hope that Mimi and the Roberto bloke hit it off...

And I assume that almost all of the characters have hidden traumatic pasts... how else could they all survive on so little sleep and continue to function!

 

[anthony]

You're going to love the third book then. It does drag on in places to tell the story, but OMFG, does it ever all come together in one hell of a payback in the last few hundred pages.

 

[maddog]

Oh, thanks a lot... I was almost on top of my need to begin reading again, and you've just blown it for me.

It's definitely a bit of a "War and Peace" though - my poor old puter crashed trying to load the pdf and had to have a little rest before trying again.

 

[Tifanee]

Kp - I would double like your post if I could:inlove:

 

[KP the nut]

Holy sh*t Batman. Talk about kick ass revenge.

Please can someone tell me is Lisbeth, Harriet. That is my thinking. Please, please tell me yes or no - I can't stand the waiting.

 

[anthony]

Keep on reading KP... you will really love the plot of the series as it goes along. She really seeks some serious revenge... and I loved the nail gun at the end of book 3. Very impressive tactics taken by her.

 

[Tifanee]

Kp - nope won't spoil the ending.

Anthony - The present of mind to create the air pocket was pretty cool too as well as what she does to her half-brother by the wood shed. It is amazing what a person is capable of doing when they are trying to survive. We all have it in us to survive our past, we may be a little quirky afterwards, but we are capable. Size and strength doesn't determine the ability to survive.

 

[maddog]

Am about halfway through book 3 now. I have to say that I think it labours a bit in parts early on in this book, almost too much detail and too many twists and turns to the political/Government/secret police aspect, a little overdone perhaps?

Or maybe I just prefer to read about the cool anonymous doods hacking into computers.

 

[KP the nut]

Still on the first book but I did chuckle at it this morning. The bit where Blomkist turns up on Salanders doorstep and tells her to 'vamoose' to the shower whilst he makes coffee.

 

[anthony]

almost too much detail and too many twists and turns to the political/Government/secret police aspect, a little overdone perhaps?

I thought that myself when reading the last book... though I also understood the depth of that information as you get into the last few hundred pages and it all comes crashing down for those involved.