Millennium trilogy
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The 4th book
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Boxed set edition of the Millennium Trilogy, the first volume of which, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has been adapted as a major Hollywood film starring Daniel Craig to be released on the 26th December.
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
”The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is the first novel in The Millennium trilogy. It was published in 2005, one year after the author Stieg Larsson’s death.
It received The Glass Key Award form Crime Writers of Scandinavia in 2006.
According to figures from June 2011, the Millennium Trilogy has together sold 60 million copies in more than 50 countries.
Plot summary
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired by Henrik Vanger to investigate the disappearance of Vanger’s great-niece Harriet. Henrik suspects that someone in his family, the powerful Vanger clan, murdered Harriet over forty years ago.
Starting his investigation, Mikael realizes that Harriet’s disappearance is not a single event, but rather linked to series of gruesome murders in the past. He now crosses paths with Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker, an asocial punk and most importantly, a young woman driven by her vindictiveness.
Together they form an unlikely couple as they dive deeper into the violent past of the secretive Vanger family.
you mispelled "from"
- xavier, 7 May 2013
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i just finished reading TGDT by S. Larsson.
all i can say is i need to read the 2nd & 3rd installment.
- psykhe.en.cu, 18 februari 2013
You won't be disappointed. The second book as well as the second movie, are the best of the two trilogies in my opinion. But all three books and movies are well worth experiencing.
- Jack, 13 May 2013
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Will never understand why crime drama is so popular. All fiction is enjoyed by people with boring lives, what makes these any different?
- Name/signature, 18 januari 2013
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I have read all of the Millenium books and found it quite gripping. The writing style is quite unique and leaves the reader wanting to read more. I couldn't believe it when i heard that Larsson had died the same day as giving his editors the manuscripts of these brilliant books. I find Salander as a brilliant role model for women everywhere as she does not allow men to push her around. The events in the second book lead brilliantly to the third book. I am hoping to read The Girl with the pearl earring, although it is not linked to the Millenium series, the author follows Larssons style of writing quite clearly.
- Naomi Robinsons, 28 juli 2012
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Without a doubt, this trilogy was the most thrilling, gripping and addictive series I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Larsson sucked you into his novels, and at the conclusion of the third book - left you desperate for more.
- Maddi, 28 May 2012
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I read the novel and still not yet done with. I watched the movie i think 3 times already. what i like in this trilogy is there is a mystery and thrilling action. there is a lesson that Larsson is saying in the girl with the dragon tattoo is don't really abuse women. I read the article in Wikipedia that Mr. Larsson has a woman getting raped by a group of men he has watched the whole thing and didn't do anything about it i was amazed because he told all the things he wanted to write I'm so happy that Mr. Larsson made a girl heroine that is unique and a journalist that is a style of solving the mystery in here i love this trilogy. But sadly i only have the girl with the dragon tattoo
- Mawyy :), 20 April 2012
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I have never, and I mean never, as a compulsatory reader who reads 1-2 novels a week, read a series so thoughtfully written, never once fearing to break the readers heart, bring the reader to so violent of rage, or drop the reader so low when Salander's heart is yet once again broken. Mr. Larsson simply makes no excuses not does he have the complusion to satisfy the reader and make a happy ending. You are left as bereft as Salader standing in the cold watching Blomkvist and Berger walk arm in arm. We, the reader, are taken on a ride absolute horrors against women, and cheer for the violence given back in such cunning maliciousness that you cheer Salander for each blow she strikes. Mr Larsson simply does not spare the reader one iota of courtesy, no apologies are made to bring vindication for the horrors perpetrated. Mr Larsson makes no apologies to the reader, he just continues to weave a story of intelligence, brutality, wringing emotion after emotion from the reader with spellbinding solid story telling intermingled with the history of Sweden, and a lesson in their the governmental structure and society. The rule of a government, that as a United States of America citizen, I at times found horrifying yet greedy for the next page, next line. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest are by the far the best written books I have ever enjoyed. Each and everyone was so phenominal to me, that I could not put it down, I would go to bed, only to jump out of bed after a short rest of maybe two hours to grab the book again to see what was next, only to realize that it was time to go to work and I had yet to sleep more than two hours. There were parts that had me laughing out loud and others that had me so horrified with brutality I could not believe what I was reading. I ran through so many emotions, that I was physically drained upon the conclusion. The Girl Who Played with Fire was in my eyes, even better than the first. We got know Salander and what made her tick in such a way as to cheer her for lashing out against those who harmed andhurt her. We cheered her relationship with Wu hoping this was the love that could unlock her. I hated Blomkvist at the end of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for being with Berger, never once feeling that any forgiveness should be offered him for unintentionally hurting her. Yet here he is in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest being her biggest champion, without having seen her face to face in wellover a year, nor understanding why she has rebuffed his attempts to rekindle a frienship with her. Yes he's scooping the biggest story of the century, yet I believe he would drop the whole thing to set her free. We have been led down the darkest alley to see what formed and shaped this phenominal women and cheer for each step she takes out of her comfort zone to reach out to another person. The Girl Who Played with Fire has been my favorite book of the trilogy by far. All I can say is I really wish that Mr. Larsson was able to complete all 10 books that he had envisioned. I am so wrapped in the world that Stieg Larsson has created that I will do something I have never done before, and that is re-read all three books again only so that I don't have to leave Sweden. It is a shame that we may never be able to read the Fourth book Mr. Larsson began before his sudden death and a shame that his readers could not hold on to one last peice of Salander, Blomkvist and Sweden. I do not believe that I will ever find another series such as this... It has been one hell of a ride! Thank you Mr. Larsson
- Donna Smith, Buffalo, NY 14220, 19 April 2012
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Gripping and Seductive.
- Joshuuu., 13 April 2012
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Loved this series, the most outstanding I've read in a very long time. So sad there'll be no more from Stieg Larsson.
- Tide Waters, 10 April 2012
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ALEX by Pierre Lemaitre
‘It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original’
- The Times.
the whole series is just like a drug, u just have to go back to it even though u try remaining away from it even during the semester exams. the interwoven characters are like just black and white colors mixing together to give a perfect grey, just love wish there was more to Lisbeth Salander and her adventures into black, grey and white of the world. hats off to Stieg Larsson, just wish that u were alove to see ur work become such a sensation and such a masterpiece.
Steig Larsson u are the legend.
- Arachnidvector, 18 May 2013