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The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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flyingcloud · 06/10/2009 17:22

Just received my pre-ordered copy on Saturday. Anyone else got it and read it (impressed) yet?

Am dying to get started, but worried that life will be put on hold when I do!!

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PanicMode · 04/11/2009 11:23

Just finished it - implausible in places but I really enjoyed it and am there is no more to come (for the time being anyway!)

Am also glad that I no longer have to lug it around on my commute!

pagwatch · 03/11/2009 17:59

I have just been away for half term and took the first one with me. I then spent ages in Murcia tracking down the 2nd one and have bought the third today.
I have explained to DH that he will just be expected to provide me with wine and remain silent this evening...

BTW Are the Wallander books good then?

foxinsocks · 22/10/2009 07:53

I wonder when the final Wallander will come to the uk

foxinsocks · 22/10/2009 07:52

ooh I haven't finished it yet as work getting in the way

I couldn't bear to carry it along with my computer (too blardy heavy all together) but it's got so exciting now, I am carrying the laptop on my back and holding the book so my back doesn't take too much strain arrghh

bring on the end of hard back! They are too heavy for commutes!

LyraSilvertongue · 12/10/2009 11:23

4am

LyraSilvertongue · 12/10/2009 11:23

I finished it too. I stayed up till am on Saturday night reading the last part, which was extremely good.
I thought it was abit slow going in the middle.

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flyingcloud · 10/10/2009 20:20

Finished!

Although I will have to re-read at some point as I raced through the end. Really enjoyed it although it is highly implausible in places.

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LyraSilvertongue · 07/10/2009 17:22

Woohoo! Mine just arrived from Amazon. Guess what I'll be doing this evening
I guess they only intend to publish the three books if they've called it the Millennium Trilogy. Maybe they'll get four and five written and do a second trilogy.

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flyingcloud · 07/10/2009 08:24

Yes I've heard the Pippi Longstocking thing before.

Just finished A Mercy by Toni Morrison so will start The Girl Who.. tonight.

Just a query though - is it the publishers who decided to call the series The Millennium Trilogy then, as only three books in the series were finished before he died?

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LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2009 21:15

An adult version of her, obviously.

LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2009 21:12

Paranoia, according to Wikipedia, Larsson based Lisbeth Salander on Pippi Longstocking.

foxinsocks · 06/10/2009 20:47

oh I love Wallander

have really missed having new ones of those to read

paranoiabigdestroyer · 06/10/2009 20:32

Mine arrived from Amazon today. My Mum is Swedish and I think read it a while ago but hasn't revealed the ending. She's also read the very last Wallandar which was published in Sweden last month. Thing is - I'm supposed to be reading the Sarah Waters one for the MN Book group - so have a lot of reading to look forward to.

The review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's nest in the The Times described Salander as a grown up and seriously abused version of Pippi Longstocking...

nightmareonELMstreet · 06/10/2009 20:23

Brilliant - couldn't put it down. Going to start it again now for a second time as it is so packed full I'm sure I missed bits!

foxinsocks · 06/10/2009 20:16

yes, very much so. I half wished I'd read the last chapter of the book before (to refresh my memory!) but it's all come back to me anyway

LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2009 20:15

Does is pick up where the last one finished?

foxinsocks · 06/10/2009 20:14

I have got it and am a few chapters in

LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2009 20:10

Oh what a shame he died before he got a chance to write them. I'd have been happy to read all 10 I'm sure.

SkivingViking · 06/10/2009 19:16

According to wiki - he also left the synopsis for the 5th and 6th books and had planned 10 in all. (Wiki also says that the manuscript for the 4th is unfinished)

SkivingViking · 06/10/2009 19:14

I don't think it is finished.

His girlfriend has it and there is a big dispute (because of the will) and she is refusing to let it be published (or something like that - can't remember the details )

LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2009 18:22

There's a fourth book? Finished?

SkivingViking · 06/10/2009 18:04

Have just started the second book - but have quite a few friends who have read all 3 and apparently the 3rd book finishes off the second book?

Wish his partner would release the 4th book for publication...

giddykipper · 06/10/2009 18:03

Bought it yesterday, about half way through now. 'Tis very good. Story so far is about the aftermath of what happened in book 2.

LyraSilvertongue · 06/10/2009 18:00

What (without giving anything away) is the story about this time?
I was a bit at the way book 2 ended. I thought there would be at least another chapter.

bigstripeytiger · 06/10/2009 17:55

It was £10 in Tesco.

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