Mar 24, 2017
Endless list of favorite book series The Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
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Endless list of favorite book series The Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Would you trust Mikhail Blomkvist from The Millenium Trilogy to do your top surgery?
Would You Trust Them?
Yes, undoubtedly
Yes, with some hesitation
No, but I can see why others might
No, never
I don't know this character
Would You Trust Lisbeth Salander from The Millenium Trilogy to do your top surgery?
Would You Trust Them?
Yes, undoubtedly
Yes, with some hesitation
No, but I can see why others might
No, never
I don't know this character
lisbeth salander is kind of a canon cinnamon roll.
she’s disturbingly tough and a literal genius and her “I don’t care what you want of me unless you have a thing that appeals to me” is underrated imho i could go on a lot longer about why she’s the best.
but she’s afraid people will laugh at her feelings, she genuinely cared for mikael, she did the thing to protect her mother, she wants to be left in peace, she can be emotionally wounded and i appreciate that stieg gave her some vulnerability- not to go “see women are just feels” but to make her nuanced.
What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series #1), by Steig Larsson
The imminent autumn-to-winter weather always makes me long to re-read The Millenium Trilogy, and brings back memories of cold days, and hot coffee and sandwiches with Lisbeth & Mikael.
Review “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”
Urgh, what a difficult review to write. What a difficult book to read... I wanted to like it, I really did - for Salander’s and Blomkvist’s sake, but it did not work.
One thing is clear: this is not Stieg Larsson.
This is David Lagercrantz, who is probably a nice human being and a good author in his own right, but incapable of stepping into such big footsteps. First of all, Lagercrantz is missing the background of real-life political engagement that Larsson had. And that lack of “field experience” makes this entire book (and Blomkvist and Millennium) weak. Soft. There is no thrive, no bite in the story and in them.
Second: all the layout choices that were made - by I don’t know who - sure are great for a feeling of continuity, but more often than not my thoughts went into the direction of “Dude, you are not him. Don’t try to be.” In general, he is trying to hard in my opinion - has to try very hard because of the many fans of the series who expected a seamless transition into part four. I would love to (and will) read Lagercrantz’ writing free of that sort of pressure, free of the shadow that is Larsson.
Lagercrantz himself seems overwhelmed about this tight cookie cutter as well. Which is why he ends up writing things like “which was typical of her” about Salander’s behaviour - as if to convince himself that this and that is indeed typical, that his ... version of her is not OOC. I like this metaphor in general, because basically what we are reading here is a super long authorized fan fiction. Though it was as if he is handling the source material only with gloves.
Sadly, that means it lacks depth were it desperately would have needed some. Lagercrantz introduces the very interesting character of Salander’s twin way to late and way to shallow into the novel. There is also too much summarizing description, instead of actual action, suspense, dialogue. There is hardly any investigating (Blomkvist) or description of hacking and clever plots (Salander). It makes the whole thing feel like a cheap copy of the original novel made with the last few drops of ink.
The whole thing, especially the second half, felt rushed and a bit like jumping from one platform to the next with nothing to connect them in between. It was not a nice reading experience. This novel is missing something. Is it Larsson? Most likely. Unfortunately I have to say that this was well-intended for the fans, but it is one literary experiment that has gone amiss.
Therefore, a generous (because it is not entirely crap or unreadable, it is just not up the the usual Millenium Trilogy standards - and how could it be?) two out of five stars are all I can give.
