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Jan 09, 2012

Sandybanks rated it:

What I learned from this book (in no particular order):

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 that pesky Fermat's Theorem that you have just discovered.

3. Congenital analgesia is a useful condition to have for mafia henchmen and Bond villains.

4. Muscular, one meter eighty More...

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Jan 13, 2011

Joel rated it:

These books really shouldn't work. Stieg Larsson is a very weird writer. He likes to tell us absolutely everything someone is doing. If Stieg wrote the story of my morning, it would go like this:

"Joel woke up around 7:45 a.m. and looked at the clock. He decided he didn't need to get up yet and hit the snooze button. When the alarm sounded again, he dragged himself out of bed and used the toilet. He brushed his teeth and then dressed in a blue striped shirt, black tie and flat fr More...

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Sep 03, 2011

Manny rated it:

I didn't like the second volume of the trilogy as much as the first, so I was initially wary about this book. But after the first few chapters, I was reassured. Despite some obviously implausible elements (even in Sweden, would you really keep two people who had tried to kill each other on the same corridor at a hospital?) it is extremely gripping and well-written.

Having now finished the book, I can confirm that, although it's not quite as good as the first one, it is indeed a fine e More...

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Jul 07, 2010

Ellen rated it:

Edited to include link to Nora Ephron's very funny piece ("The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut") from The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/07/0...

D E P R E S S I O N…

You’re probably depressed when, in the space of 3 or 4 weeks, you leave the house only when absolutely necessary, and read about 30 books – 90% of which are crap, including 15 books by Harlan Coben, a grade Z mystery writer. Even worse, you read Coben’s entire Myron Bolitar series, whi More...

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Jan 04, 2012

Thom rated it:

Mr. Larsson, wherever you are, thank you for your magnificent story telling which, like your life, ended too abruptly and much too soon.

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Jan 20, 2012

Tanu rated it:

Dearest Steig Larsson,

I absolutely hate you! But,I think I love you too. While every author has some characteristic quality, yours seem to be to make readers pissed at you. Ever since the day I picked up the 1st book of this Millennium saga, I have regretted my decision countless times. You have forced me to bang my head on the wall, pull my hair, throw your books and the end of the room, and them pick it up again and read it like a mad woman, totally forgetting the outside world. Yo More...

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Jun 09, 2011

Dan rated it:

This is the third book in Larsson's Millennium series. About halfway through this one, I started viewing it less as a stand-alone book in a series and more as Part II of a single book that might be titled The Dysfunctional Family Meets Robert Ludlum. Part I of that book would be The Girl Who Played with Fire and the prologue would be The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the way that The Hobbit is prologue to The Lord of the Rings or The Winds of War is prologue to War and Remembrance. While it More...

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Sep 08, 2010

Kemper rated it:

Lisbeth Salander, we hardly knew ye.

It seems like a particularly cruel joke that Steig Larsson died shortly after getting a deal to publish his Millennium Trilogy. Would he have continued on with these tales of Salander and journalist Mikeal Blomkvist if he would have lived? Unless the rumors are true about Larsson’s long-time girlfriend having a laptop with a fourth book saved on it stuck in a safety deposit box somewhere as she fights with his family over the cash cow this series More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Arthur rated it:

In this last episode of the Salander trilogy, Lisbeth's friends rally to help her out of the legal mess left over from the first two books and to expose the bad guys.

Salander is a wonderful action character, so with Lisbeth in the hospital for most of the book, whatever action there is takes place in the last hundred or so pages of this 600 page book. Instead of action, we have cartoon-like good and bad guys spouting leaden dialogue as they plod though Swedish courts and tackle arcan More...

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Sep 08, 2010

Shannon rated it:

Contains spoilers for the end of book 2

I have to thank my friend Maria (of Bogormen) again for sending me the UK edition of the third book, which arrived on about the same day as it was released in hefty and expensive hardcover here - I love the book-blogging community; we're all so keen for each other to read our favourite books we'll happily supply the ~~drugs~~ books for each others' habit! This edition doesn't match the elongated mass market paperbacks of the previous two that I have More...

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Sep 08, 2010

The rated it:

This is the third book in the Millenium trilogy, and - thankfully - the last, because my hands were starting to feel a bit shaky after supporting these five centimeter thick book whenever I went around in a quest to find the most comfortable spot in the apartment without being bugged by my too enthusiastic budgies.

Sadly, I couldn't say the same praise toward this one as I did to the previous two books. To begin with, I'd say this book is a must read, well if you want to know the endi More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Bernadette rated it:

As the book opens Lisbeth Salander, subject of a nation-wide manhunt on suspicion of three murders, has been shot several times, once in the head, and is on her way by helicopter to hospital. Alexander Zalachenko, her father and a former Russian agent being protected by members of the Swedish police, has been hit in the face with an axe by Lisbeth and is on his way to the same hospital. Over the coming days both have their injuries treated while the bureaucrats and police officers who have prote More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Claude rated it:

J'ai regardé rapidement les différentes critiques de Millénium postées sur le site ; on y trouve tout et son contraire sur cette saga de deux mille pages. Alors, disons-le clairement : cette trilogie est incontestablement un chef-d’œuvre romanesque. L’histoire nous emmène dans les vies très compliquées d'une fille apparemment autiste et d'un reporter séduisant, brillant et buté qui se trouvent confrontés de manière parfois violente à un certain nombre d’hommes qui n'aiment pas les femmes. Si vou More...

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Mar 18, 2011

Sarah rated it:

Sarah Null woke up at 8:00. She showered, dressed, and went into the kitchen. She made some coffee and sandwiches, then she went into the living room and sat in the armchair. She opened up her Sony Vaio laptop and checked her email. There were several emails from Meghan Fang and a few from the girls in her book club. The rest were mainly junk: email coupons and the like. It wasn't until after reading her email that she logged into Goodreads.com. She took a sip of her coffee and began to write he More...

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Sep 08, 2010

Khaya rated it:

I really enjoyed “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” which not only succeeded as an exciting thriller but contained elements of interesting characterization and relationship intrigue. Unfortunately, the Millennium series does not appear to be one which improves upon further acquaintance. “The Girl who Played with Fire” was an adequate thriller but not great, and “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” was just plain disappointing, not to mention way too long. 743 pages?!? I wanted to put it d More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Georg rated it:

It seems to be unfair to rate the two first Millenium-novels by five stars and then give only three stars for the last one. On the other hand it is not fair to write two brilliant books and then publish a 600 pages long epilogue without much of a new story, either.

600 pages look like a long story, but if you skip the 300 cups of coffees Micke and his friends make, stir and drink, if you skip the complete index of the Stockholm city-map and if you skip the subplot of Erika and her sta More...

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May 02, 2010

David rated it:

I loved the Millennium trilogy. I hate that I've now read every novel written by Steig Larsson.

4 comments like (43 people liked it)

Apr 27, 2010

Charlotte rated it:

This is the first time I've been glad to be sick (for a WEEK now) because otherwise I may have really had to play hooky from work to read this book. I've been waiting for it for what seems like forever (but is not actually that bad, George R.R. Martin) and it was worth the wait. The great translations make this mystery series even better reads. It's like normal English but not quite, in the best possible way, and that's what I look for in a translation. What we used to call in India "same s More...

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Jun 01, 2010

Bettie rated it:

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Dec 13, 2010

notgettingenough added it

Okay, I've read this now and I really don't have anything to add. It's a nicely done story, I read 400 pages of it yesterday and I'm in hospital and feel like shit, so I guess that is a compliment. The good guys win and you sense fairly early on that they are going to, so it's tense without being worrying. I quite liked that.

Excuse me. I'm going back to do that drugged dozing that Salander spends the first half of the book doing and in which regard I seem to be following in her footste More...

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Sep 08, 2010

James rated it:

This is an excellent conclusion to Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. The series protagonists, Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist take on a cast of especially nefarious characters in an effort to set right a host of injustices that have been visited upon Lisbeth from the time she was a very young girl.

As with the other two books in the series, this one would have benefitted from a little more rigorous editing. In particular, there is a subplot involving Mikael's long-time lo More...

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May 02, 2010

Mike rated it:

Larsson's third (and, alas, final) Millennium novel continues right where we left off volume II, the asocial supergenius crazycoolcharacter Lisbeth Salander shot in the head (but somehow able to drag herself over to axe her Russian-defector/gangster/all-around-asshole father Zalachenko in the face), charismatic and promiscuous and intrepid journalist Mikael Blomkvist sending her off to the hospital then arrested by police then trying to get them to go after the real bad guy, Salander's half-brot More...

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Aug 08, 2010

Michael rated it:

Larsson found his stride with this, the last number of the Millenium Trilogy. When I reached the middle of the book, I couldn't put it down and finished it at 3:00 a.m. It is sad that Larsson died before seeing any of the trilogy in print and sad too that we will have no more novels from him. Nevertheless, the Millenium Trilogy stands as a fine memorial. Lisbeth Salander, his unique creation, is less an active agent in the final novel and more of a fulcrum on which the action turns, driven by th More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Bobbi rated it:

Finishing this book was like finishing the last book in the Harry Potter series--I was devastated knowing there will be no more!

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 of these great characters" good stuff. The first two books each had their own journalism adventure/theme. This book takes all the loose ends in the first two books, continuing where the second boo More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Flannery rated it:

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Feb 15, 2011

Truly rated it:

"Itu dia.”
”Maksud Anda?”
”itu Lisbeth Salender. Gadis yang dicari-cari selama beberapa minggu ini karena tiga kasus pembunuihan di Stockholm”

Dr. Jonasson sama sekali tidak mengira, gadis yang dibawa masuk ruangan UGD adalah gadis yang paling dicari. Yang ia tahu adalah bagaimana menyelamatkan pasiennya, sisanya harus menunggu. Lisbeth Salander ditemukan dalam keadaan yang mengenaskan. Sementara sang ayah yang juga musuh bebuyutannya Zalachenko ditemukan dengan luka meng More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Casey rated it:

A wonderful finish to this incredible 3 volume novel. He still manages to surprise you, right up to the end - the mark of a successful whodunit for me. The characters are well drawn, and feel like old friends - not always 100% believable at this stage, but if you've gotten this far you really don't care any more. This is one of those reading experiences that leave you feeling a little lost when it's all over. I was feeling very much at home in Stieg Larsson's Stockholm and I miss it.

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Aug 23, 2010

Julie rated it:

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Jul 02, 2010

Alyn rated it:

I left it in Chippewa Falls! Crap. I have to wait to finish it. So far my opinion is that it is better than the first but not as good as the second.

Update: Upon finishing the series I feel like the reason for reading these books is to so that one can partake in the current events discussions about them. That might be all, though. I appreciated the attempts at injecting genuinely strong female characters, and though people have been berating the series for its obsession with violent c More...

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Apr 27, 2010

Leia rated it:

Wonderful whilst bittersweet - the trial to decide Lisbeth's fate did not disappoint, yet I could not help the feeling of sorrow that came when I realized these were the last moments I would be spending with these fabulous characters. Any good story leaves you wanting more, and I will always wonder what Stieg Larsson had in store for us.

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