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No more Lisbeth Salander.
Jun. 11th, 2010 01:08 pm17 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest = Stieg Larsson
I read 743 pages in just over a week. That's got to be a record for me, especially as i read much of it on the bus, but also at lunch at work and a few evenings at home! This was every bit as good as the first two. This book was mainly concerned with the case against Lisbeth Salander, accused of killing three people. The people on her side were meticulously investigating the conspiracy that has been surrounding her life since she was a child. Her father was a Russian defector who worked for the secret service and her life was pretty much one big cover up, people trying to keep her silent and under control. The book examines the conspiracy and it's far reaching fingers. Lisbeth herself is mainly lying in a hospital bed through much of it, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. It's in intricate case and there's lots of twists and turns. As you would expect, it all comes right in the end but what a ride, right to the last!
The first of the three books is a bit hard to get into, it's slow and plods through a lot of background. The story in the first book doesn't really have a lot of bearing on the other two but it introduces the characters and their relationships to each other and is essential for the trilogy. For once, at least for me, the books live up to their hype. There's violence and brutality in them but it's all necessary to the story. What is really impressive is that the books were translated from Swedish and yet they flow smoothly. The person that did the translations obviously had to deal with differences in meanings of phrases and slang but it reads believably and the translator is to be commended as well.
I read 743 pages in just over a week. That's got to be a record for me, especially as i read much of it on the bus, but also at lunch at work and a few evenings at home! This was every bit as good as the first two. This book was mainly concerned with the case against Lisbeth Salander, accused of killing three people. The people on her side were meticulously investigating the conspiracy that has been surrounding her life since she was a child. Her father was a Russian defector who worked for the secret service and her life was pretty much one big cover up, people trying to keep her silent and under control. The book examines the conspiracy and it's far reaching fingers. Lisbeth herself is mainly lying in a hospital bed through much of it, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. It's in intricate case and there's lots of twists and turns. As you would expect, it all comes right in the end but what a ride, right to the last!
The first of the three books is a bit hard to get into, it's slow and plods through a lot of background. The story in the first book doesn't really have a lot of bearing on the other two but it introduces the characters and their relationships to each other and is essential for the trilogy. For once, at least for me, the books live up to their hype. There's violence and brutality in them but it's all necessary to the story. What is really impressive is that the books were translated from Swedish and yet they flow smoothly. The person that did the translations obviously had to deal with differences in meanings of phrases and slang but it reads believably and the translator is to be commended as well.
