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So I read the bloody Dragon Tattoo book...

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TrillianAstra · 10/09/2011 21:36

And I really think they would have been edited much more harshly (and been better books) if he had been alive.

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DollyTwat · 11/09/2011 16:51

Horseyrider try the Patricia Cornwell books or Jo Nesbo

moondog · 11/09/2011 16:43

My father gave me the 1st and I loved it, so much so I was reading it open on my lap a few weeks ago whilst on holiday in the States driving down Intersate. Dh v cross. Was meant to be mapreading.

Just read 2nd. Loved it.
Ready to devour 3rd.

KatieScarlett2833 · 11/09/2011 16:40

Must be.

Pan · 11/09/2011 16:40

KS - how do you know this? Is your capacity to understand so limited?

KatieScarlett2833 · 11/09/2011 16:31

I listened to all 3 on audible, well I say I listened but in fact I skipped a whole 8 hrs of the 3rd one and it made no difference whatsoever to the plot or my understanding of it.

horseyrider · 11/09/2011 16:28

I've just finished the whole trilogy and I feel bereft now that I've finished them. (Must get out more!) The books just leave you wanting more in my opinion.

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TrillianAstra · 11/09/2011 16:10

Nah, can't be, she's smiling.

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Pan · 11/09/2011 15:55

The real Salander

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TrillianAstra · 11/09/2011 15:50

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=salamander&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&rlz=1C1AFAB_en-GBGB441GB442&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=IPPu2hSHcjSpmM:&imgrefurl=animalphotos.tk/animal/tiger-salamander&docid=B9yS_N14JE1tFM&w=640&h=432&ei=ecpsTr-2HsKo8QPg45kE&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=185&vpy=140&dur=4271&hovh=184&hovw=273&tx=201&ty=114&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=202&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Salamander

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No reason for that really :)

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DollyTwat · 11/09/2011 15:50

They were all so similar too, just too many to try to remember
Even having read the books just before watching the films, I still wasn't sure who everyone was in the third one!

moronicatatonic · 11/09/2011 15:47

Yes, good point about the names. They are forrin.

DollyTwat · 11/09/2011 15:38

I loved all the books, but the first one did take a bit of perseverance to begin with, especially the names.

The first film was great but the 2nd and 3rd films were very dull, I
wasn't sure they'd read the same books as I did.

Bunbaker · 11/09/2011 15:28

"We read it in our book club. I hated it at first, but was told to keep going past the 1st 100 pages. Glad I did "

I agree. The first book takes ages to get interesting, but it is so worth it. I am about a quarter of the way through the second book and have found it is unputdownable right from the beginning.

I read the first book on holiday and a number of people came and talked to me because they had read it. It was a good conversation starter.

moronicatatonic · 11/09/2011 15:23

They are Scandinavian, though, Pan. And journalists.

Re Salander's interest - I would suggest Blomkvist may be well-endowed. Grin

Pan · 11/09/2011 13:57

The Twitterati having to read the novels in short bursts of 150 characters.Grin.

I don't think he does intimacy very well - one of a very few criticisms. ( anyone who creates a heroine like Salander is almost bomb-proof, imo.) IT was unrealistic that a woman like her would want to shag a man like Blomqvist, ime anyway. The on-going affair with his colleague didn't scan properly either.

moronicatatonic · 11/09/2011 13:40

People on Twitter probably can't concentrate for long enough to get the Millennium Trilogy. Grin

They are very intelligently conceived, researched and written books. I think you are right that had Larsson lived, he would've edited them down a bit; but that doesn't detract from their overall brilliance.

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TrillianAstra · 11/09/2011 11:49

Very few books or films are worth the hype.

Interestingly when I posted on Twitter saying I was reading the book I had a lot of responses from people saying they had hated it. SO I wondered where exactly the hype had come from.

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perfumedlife · 10/09/2011 22:40

It was just not worth the hype, the TTW. I never feel compelled to plough through a book and it's not that I can't appreciate a weighty novel. I have re read Crime and Punishment many times for pleasure. It's horses for courses isn't it? What one loves, another loathes.

Apart from that, my mil and I agree on all matters Grin

PacificDogwood · 10/09/2011 22:40

But I can recite The Gruffulo by heart

Back on topic, I did really like the Trilogie (although it is a shame all his fame and fortune is coming posthumously and all the money is going to his brother and father, from what I read, rather than his partner of loads of years Hmm).

Pan · 10/09/2011 22:35

Understanding Ulysses is def. a life's worth of devotion.Grin

PacificDogwood · 10/09/2011 22:32

From memory, it took to about page 250 to pick up Grin.

nodrog · 10/09/2011 22:32

I liked the Time Travellers Wife, but the film was beyond dire.

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TrillianAstra · 10/09/2011 22:30

I liked The Time Traveller's Wife.

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lostlady · 10/09/2011 22:30

I stopped reading it. It was sooo boring, decided life is too short.

perfumedlife · 10/09/2011 22:28

I gave up at about page 100. Glad I did because when my mil persuaded me to keep going with Time Travellers Wife, I did and bloody regretted that. It was tedious. I fear this would be the same for me.