false 7102077 <![CDATA[La reine dans le palais des courants d'air : 2 volumes (Millenium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 1512210 37 3461479 book 2007 Luftslottet som sprängdes total:1180|5:553|4:420|3:167|2:32|1:10| 1180 5013 2731 292 706255 4.03 26120 7747 75574748 1889855 6352093 1906694168 9781906694166 61 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352093-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 186 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 3 9 false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 06:32:39 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 20:55:49 -0700 2009
1. You can use duct tapes to close up serious wounds; they keep the blood in and the germs out.

2. You can be shot in the head and STILL have photographic memory, though annoyingly, you will forget the solution to th...more...]]> 44534802 1108123 6352093 1906694168 9781906694166 61 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352093-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 1180 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 4 4 true Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:00:47 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 14:39:21 -0700 2009 raison d'etre was a magazine called Expo. So although he hit upon the masterpiece character that was Lisbeth, she was not the be-all-end-all of his writing, whereas Millenium magazine in the books, and Expo in realit...more...]]> 79525873 2304684 1512210 9113015311 9789113015316 99 <![CDATA[Luftslottet som sprängdes (Millenium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184506367m/1512210.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184506367s/1512210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1512210.Luftslottet_som_spr_ngdes 4.22 470 Flickan som lekte med elden slutade. Lisbeth Salander överlevde att bli levande begravd, men hennes problem är långt ifrån över. Starka krafter vill tysta henne en gång för alla. Samtidigt gräver Mikael Blomkvist i Salanders dolda förflutna och kommer snart sanningen på spåren. Han skriver på ett avslöjande reportage som kommer att rentvå Lisbeth Salander och skaka regeringen, Säpo och hela landet i dess grundvalar. Äntligen finns en chans för Lisbeth Salander att göra upp med sitt förflutna och en möjlighet för rättvisan - den verkliga - att segra.
]]> 2007 5 3 false Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 09:09:59 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 18:59:31 -0800 2009 73136212 630056 6389276 1906694176 9781906694173 22 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250935486m/6389276.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250935486s/6389276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6389276-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.49 49 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 5 5 false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 15:26:33 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 02:37:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 73789420 77915 6352093 1906694168 9781906694166 61 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352093-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 1180 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 5 3 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 16:27:01 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 16:31:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 39008745 1763748 2330323 8770530920 9788770530927 2 <![CDATA[Luftkastellet der blev sprængt (Millenium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1197737703m/2330323.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1197737703s/2330323.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2330323.Luftkastellet_der_blev_spr_ngt 4.43 14
Kuglen i hovedet er Lisbeth Salanders mindste problem. Stærke kræfter vil gøre hende tavs én gang for alle. Men mens hun ligger isoleret på sygehuset, graver Mikael Blomkvist i hendes skjulte fortid og kommer efterhånden på sporet af sandheden. Han går i gang med en afslørende reportage, som vil rense Lisbeth og ryste regeringen, Säpo og hele landet i dets grundvold. Endelig får Lisbeth Salander en chance for at gøre op med fortiden.]]> 2007 4 4 false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 02:08:36 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 16:49:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 74585612 1401676 6352093 1906694168 9781906694166 61 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352093-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 1180 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 5 2 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 21:41:44 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 22:38:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 82574653 121500 6352093 1906694168 9781906694166 61 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352093-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 1180 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 4 0 false Sat Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 30 08:01:30 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 30 08:24:15 -0800 2009
This last installment in the Millenium series was just as engrossing as the previous two. Suspens...more...]]> 80361698 1025797 6892870 030726999X 9780307269997 34 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millenium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6892870-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornet-s-nest 4.31 135
Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Lisbeth Salander is ready to fight back.]]> 2007 3 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 19:04:53 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 19:24:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 75672223 723146 6892870 030726999X 9780307269997 34 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millenium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6892870-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornet-s-nest 4.25 1180
Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Lisbeth Salander is ready to fight back.]]> 2007 2 2 false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 09:42:42 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 09:42:42 -0700 2009
Salander is a wonderful action character, so with Lisbeth in the hospital for most of the book, whatever action there is t...more...]]> 69344361 2210843 1735412 2742770313 9782742770311 6 <![CDATA[La Reine dans le palais des courants d'air (Millenium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256867460m/1735412.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256867460s/1735412.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1735412.La_Reine_dans_le_palais_des_courants_d_air 4.14 56 2007 5 3 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 11:49:49 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 09:48:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 9643761 645918 1735412 2742770313 9782742770311 6 <![CDATA[La Reine dans le palais des courants d'air (Millenium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256867460m/1735412.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256867460s/1735412.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1735412.La_Reine_dans_le_palais_des_courants_d_air 4.25 1180 2007 4 2 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 05:10:23 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 00:41:24 -0800 2007 more...]]> 79614757 1847296 6389276 1906694176 9781906694173 22 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250935486m/6389276.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250935486s/6389276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6389276-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 1180 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 5 1 false Wed Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 00:09:07 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 02:10:18 -0800 2009 1 The girl with the dragon tattoo and The girl who played with fire. While there is something of a gap between the first book and the second, this one carried on right from where the second one leaves off, so if you'v...more...]]> 76246828 628868 7046116 1407449540 9781407449548 8 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7046116-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.56 16 2007 5 1 false Fri Oct 30 15:39:44 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 15:40:03 -0700 2009
Not The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

But the sad realization that once you’ve finished the trilogy, there is (probably, see below) no more Steig Larsson to look forward (to).

This final book in the Milleniumseries is every bit as good as the ...more...]]> 75701390 1129224 1512210 9113015311 9789113015316 99 <![CDATA[Luftslottet som sprängdes (Millenium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184506367m/1512210.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184506367s/1512210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1512210.Luftslottet_som_spr_ngdes 4.25 1180 Flickan som lekte med elden slutade. Lisbeth Salander överlevde att bli levande begravd, men hennes problem är långt ifrån över. Starka krafter vill tysta henne en gång för alla. Samtidigt gräver Mikael Blomkvist i Salanders dolda förflutna och kommer snart sanningen på spåren. Han skriver på ett avslöjande reportage som kommer att rentvå Lisbeth Salander och skaka regeringen, Säpo och hela landet i dess grundvalar. Äntligen finns en chans för Lisbeth Salander att göra upp med sitt förflutna och en möjlighet för rättvisan - den verkliga - att segra.
]]> 2007 5 1 false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 15:23:39 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:32:03 -0700 2009 While the first book remains the best, this one deserves pure 5* review only because with Millennium, Larsson had created one of the best female characters in fiction ever.

Lisbeth Salander in this fin...more...]]> 81225119 148680 6892870 030726999X 9780307269997 34 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millenium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6892870-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornet-s-nest 4.25 1180
Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Lisbeth Salander is ready to fight back.]]> 2007 4 1 false Wed Dec 16 14:29:28 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 20 13:13:33 -0800 2009 1
This book focused more on the conspiracy around Salander and Zalache...more...]]> 78081027 188458 6352093 1906694168 9781906694166 61 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6352093-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 1180 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 5 2 false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 08:59:21 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 10:38:44 -0800 2009
Stieg Larsson did such an incredible job of wrapping up the first two books in the series with this one. It was 602 pages of incredible "can't get enough o...more...]]> 76114964 2151607 7063141 1849162751 9781849162753 1 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7063141-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.33 6 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 5 1 false Thu Oct 29 09:26:09 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 09:26:43 -0700 2009 Stieg Larsson is a genious. And there is no d...more...]]> 73675738 652877 6389276 1906694176 9781906694173 22 <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250935486m/6389276.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250935486s/6389276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6389276-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest 4.25 1180 This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).

There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2007 5 2 true Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 16:38:29 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 16:16:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 75667469 1836077 1512210 9113015311 9789113015316 99 <![CDATA[Luftslottet som sprängdes (Millenium, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184506367m/1512210.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184506367s/1512210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1512210.Luftslottet_som_spr_ngdes 4.25 1180 Flickan som lekte med elden slutade. Lisbeth Salander överlevde att bli levande begravd, men hennes problem är långt ifrån över. Starka krafter vill tysta henne en gång för alla. Samtidigt gräver Mikael Blomkvist i Salanders dolda förflutna och kommer snart sanningen på spåren. Han skriver på ett avslöjande reportage som kommer att rentvå Lisbeth Salander och skaka regeringen, Säpo och hela landet i dess grundvalar. Äntligen finns en chans för Lisbeth Salander att göra upp med sitt förflutna och en möjlighet för rättvisan - den verkliga - att segra.
]]> 2007 3 1 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 08:43:10 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:27:42 -0800 2009
More weirdly compelling Swedish reporter/hacker mystery adventures, this time with extra government conspiracy. If you don't know about this series yet, for God's sake don't start here. Because when I bitched that the la...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7102077