Millennium trilogy
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
The 4th Book
Millennium Stockholm Map
Maps of Hedeby
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Review: Millennium trilogy
Mikael Blomkvist, in his guise as an ethical and talented reporter, embodies the next phase of human evolution. The millennium trilogy presents the triumph of human rights and constitutional law over criminality and lawlessness, both inside and outside of government.
The wild card variable in this hopeful equation is the warrior-victim Lisbeth Salander, spawned of cold war evil and oppression and meeting both with appropriate violence, stubborn silence and extremely effective action. She brings to light to those who would hide in darkness. Despite her youthful appearance and diminutive stature, she stands head and shoulders, intellectually, morally and physically, over her oppressors.
This unique work of fiction, written during the Neanderthal Bush-Cheney presidency, asserts the ascendancy of democracy over our base animal instincts. It upholds standards of freedom, dignity and respect for each individual member of society to which our Constitution aspired but which we have yet to achieve. The courtroom scenes at the end of book III are the clear and climactic illustration of these pervasive principals.
?We will.? these novels declare. Dedicated and decent human beings will win out, eventually, over the anachronistic monsters who secretly dwell, diseased and dying yet still able to inflict great harm, on both sides of every society.
The name Millennium is no accident. Larsson lived just long enough to point us towards a future worth striving for.
Posted by Biblio Baggins the 9 Mars 2010
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I disagree with Biblio Baggins' comment dated Mars (sic) 9 2010; I find Mikael's view of justice contrary to that of due process. Leaving someone's life in tatters (guilty though s/he may be) due to investigative reporting, prejudicing judges with scandalous (though apparently truthful) reports is not my idea of justice. The subject of the article must have a right to defend himself.
Still, wonderful books. Read the first one in two days, working my way through the second one. The spanish translation is utterly shameful, and the translators ought to be shot (after a hearing, of course).
A must-read for human rights advocates, though I do wish they'd opt for a more institutional course of action...
- Daylightdemon, 19 April 2010