So I read the bloody Dragon Tattoo book...

[TrillianAstra]

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

this, bugger it

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.

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

I liked The Time Traveller's Wife.

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

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

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

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 ).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

They are Scandinavian, though, Pan. And journalists.

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

"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.

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.

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

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!

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No reason for that really :)

The real Salander

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

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.

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.

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

Must be.

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.