The Millennium Trilogy

[ThunderAeroI]

Has anyone else read it? Once I finished reading a book, I watched the Swedish movies and found myself looking over the differences more than actually enjoying the movies. Over all I think the movies were really well done.

These books are:
-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
-The girl who played with Fire
-The girl who kicked the hornets next

My own problems with the books are:

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- I do not like reading rape scenes. In a movie you can look away, but reading about it is 100% worse.
- The middle book seemed to drag on forever. At the end of the book I was seriously trying to remember what actually had happened early in the book.
- I had to actually read about the third book online after about 80 pages cause I couldn't bring myself to want to finish it. After I read about the book, I was able to get into reading it again and finish.

Overall I enjoyed the story, some parts were meh, but overall I would recommend the books to anyone interested in government conspiracy, murder mystery, etc.

 

[Rii]

Seen the films; bought the first book but haven't read it yet.

I read a good line somewhere - I don't recall where, and I've no idea if it's even remotely accurate - about the Swedish fondness for crime fiction coupled with that nation's relatively low incidence of actual crime: something about there being one murder mystery published in Sweden for every actual murder.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I read a good line somewhere - I don't recall where, and I've no idea if it's even remotely accurate - about the Swedish fondness for crime fiction coupled with that nation's relatively low incidence of actual crime: something about there being one murder mystery published in Sweden for every actual murder.

You may be thinking of this article from Slate: "Why do Scandinavians write such good crime fiction?"

 

[Admiral_Young]

I just saw the first film after reading the book and thought both were excellent, especially loved the film adaption, David Fincher has big shoes to fill. Looking forward to reading and watching "The Girl Who Plays With Fire" next.

 

[marillion]

I'm about halfway through the first book and am having a hard time putting it down. I've also seen the first two movies and enjoyed them immensly.

I'm having a hard time seeing the point of making "American" versions of the films as the Swedish versions have been so popular here already. Both were shown here in Albuquerque at our large downtown multi-plex after short runs at a local "art-film" house.

I mean, yes, the point in making American versions is to make gobs of money, but the Swedish versions are of such good quality, I really don't see the point as they would both be rehash.. I wonder if they will change the settings of the stories.

 

[Admiral_Young]

It's obvious the studio wants to make it's own contribution and mark to the series, the cast is top notch as is the director, I don't see a point in it either but understand their reasoning for it. I'll be seeing it.

 

[John Clark]

I read the books a while ago and just saw "played with fire" at the flicks last week.

I think both the books and films are pretty decent

 

[Scotty]

I couldn't get through the first book. IMO it was boring as hell. Did see the movie, thought it was decent in a Scandinavian-Midsummer-Murders kind of way. Nothing special, but if you're fan of crimefiction, which I am not, rather good.