Millenium trilogy which book is first

There was such a controversy back then , if you remember. What has it been like to meet the readers over the years? I think it has been fantastic. Should he do this? So in the beginning, they were quite tense, and I was nervous. The girl is back! Do you feel more of an ownership over Lisbeth now? I mean, I will always credit Stieg Larsson. He was the genius who created her. So I sort of have her now in my veins, in my DNA. They had to. You have answered these longstanding questions like, maybe the biggest one, why she has the tattoo.

How did you know it was time to answer that question? I was sort of obsessed by it, talking about dragons all the time. And then I got this advice to go into the big cathedral in Old Town in Stockholm. Every Swedish schoolkid has been there. We heard all of the tales — the hero Saint George killing the dragon and saving the virgin, you know. And then I saw something astonishing. As an Amazon Associate, I earn money from qualifying purchases. If you would like to link to us, Get the Code Here.

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To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. Homepage Characters Authors. Millennium Books In Order. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Amazon. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. In the second, they get involved with trying to find a Soviet spy who just happens to be Lisbeth's father.

And in the I loved these books! And in the 3rd book Mikael and others try to find a killer for murders for which Lisbeth is blamed. The translation is sometimes forced "hooligans"? Also, reading the three together in series means you have to sit through some "this is what happened previously" in the prior books. But it's all worth it. These books are great "reads. Stieg Larsson died after delivering the manuscripts, so there will be no more "Girl Who" books. I am sad but also I think it would be difficult to keep the story going.

I'm sure with the success of these books there will be copycats. It remains to be seen whether the copies are as good as the original.

Nov 09, Ankit Agrawal rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , thriller , crime , series , scandinavia. I don't know what to say about this Triology or not a triology but an incompleted series.

I have loved this all in all but at the same time I have regretted reading it as well. It has kept me awake at nights but at the same time bored me. It has left me wanting to read more but at the same time left a bad taste in my mouth. There are so many contradicting emotions this series has left me with. This has to be the most weird series or the most weird set of books anyone can read. Its so filled up wi I don't know what to say about this Triology or not a triology but an incompleted series.

Its so filled up with flaws that at the start you can't understand what the hype is about but the more you read the more you can't resist giving it 5 stars as well. The Hype and Introduction The hype that surrounds these books is probably understandable. Especially in Sweden where these things abusing women really happen. Swedish people can feel all the concept brought around in these books.

Let me tell you that this is a series and it would be totally wrong for anybody to rate each book differently or to make a certain good or bad opinion just after reading 1 book. Every book is incomplete at the end and continues into its next part. The 1st book is just a start. It by no means a great sensation. It just leads into the introduction of characters through a sub-plot of the actual series. The plot is irrelevant of the whole series but it is very interesting mystery and a good development of the characters for the rest of the series to follow.

Many might say just after reading this book that it is over-hyped, I also had the same feeling when I read further into the series the opinions started to change and I realized that this is actually a proper series and not individual threads.

The second book is where this series actually starts. The story gradually morphs into a tale of sexual prejudice, abuse of power, and governmental conspiracy. This book starts to thrill, get into your nerves, forces you to stay awake at night. The same thing continues into the third with much more excitement and thrill. The third book is also incomplete as Larsson had planned a 10 book series and could only finish 3.

Why you love it? The character development is the essence of this book and is the most striking thing about these books. Larsson make you dwell so much deep into the characters that you can feel each and every character's each and every emotion and activity. You can have sympathy for Lisbeth, like Blomkvist's friendly and smart behavior, hate Sapo's secret force and so on with every character not matter how small or big roles they played. I have never seen a better character development and feel for the characters in any other book.

Besides Character Development there are many other lovable things as well. The Thrill - It takes some time in every book to get into. The first can be very boring. But once you get into it there's no stopping. You will be forced to stay awake at nights, turn page after page until you complete it. The more you read the more you will like it. The Plot - Larsson has done an exceptional work in this department. Not only is the plot very believable but he mixes up so many characters and so many things into a single plot that it becomes impossible to keep a proper track of things.

Lisbeth the heroine, Blomkvist the hero, Erika the supporter, Different levels of police, millennium staff, murder, mystery, thrill, suspense etc That makes it a must read. I am utmost sure that Larsson has created memorable characters and plot which I even if I try my hardest would not be able to forget. Why you regret it? What went wrong? What messed it up all? As I mentioned above the book is most weird one could ever read. It had a great, great characters, overall a mesmerizing series. Then what it was that messed it all up that some people talk about it being over-hyped and what it was that made you feel regret reading it.

I guess there are two separate answers to these questions and both are equally important. Firstly I want to talk about what went wrong or what messed it up all. I have never seen a 5 Star book with so many flaws and I am pretty sure that I won't see any 5 start with more flaws than this. The publishers and the marketers are the sole ones to ruined these books. Just to make some good, quick money they have damaged this heavily. This book is a perfect example of it.

It was originally written in Swedish and then converted into English worldwide. Now let me tell you that Reg Keeland is no mug of a translator. He has done translation for years and most of the books english versions have been quite successful. So the reason for bad translation are again the marketers and publishers.

The same thing has happened in this case. Editing if it has been done at all has been really really poor. If it hasn't been done then its even more to feel sorry for Larsson. There are parts in the series where you feel the story just goes on passively without any interest. Those parts feel a little bit stretch and take the original excitement of the book to some extent.

All this is down to editing. Larsson was a journalist not a writer so these books needed a very good editor but the marketers have again not allowed this to happen. Bit parts and pieces in the series are rather quite awkward.

And that's a shame, because there's a really good story here, and some terrific characters. Again a editorial mistake not allowed to rectify by the marketers There were many other reasons which have messed it up all, I won't go into much details about that since all is down to Commercialism. They have done a perfect to fuck this more than a 5 star worth book down to a lot less degree.

So the people who complain about the hype are not totally wrong. For the first book it was "Men Who Hate Women" and I think the original Swedish titles would have suited all the books rather much better even though it would not have been that catchy. The stories are rather surrounded around the Swedish titles than the English ones.

This thing was discussed when Larsson was alive and despite serious protests he wasn't allowed The Swedish Titles. Why do you regret reading it One reason you regret these books is it was actually planned out to be a 10 book series and Larsson had wanted it to write in that way. But since he died midway he could only finish 3 of them.

Because of just 3 books planned out of 10 the triology doesn't fit well into parts. After reading the end of every book it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Each book got better than the previous one. The first was good, the second was lovable and the third set a different level for crime books and the 4th never came. You could just wonder how good all would have been had all 10 books been published.

Also another thing happened since only 3 books were published is that many things were left unsaid or incomplete, that upsets a to quite an extent. The main reason for the regret is if you feel so sorry for Larsson after reading it. I have never ever seen any book in which one can get so realistically involved. I felt so sorry for Larsson at the end that I was almost brought to tears. And adding salt to injury the marketers fucked it off even more.

I wish Larsson had completed all 10, I am not content with 3 moreover I feel regret that I read this because I was so deeply involved in this that I couldn't read 7 more sensations This was clearly not how Larsson had planned to end the series. The ending left so much scope for other stories to come after it. Conclusions These are not just normal books, they are thought provoking , burning your chest, making you feel raged.

The memorable characters Larsson created will forever be etched into the mind of us readers. I am sure that I will never forget you as long as I live. I don't have words to describe how good the writing was, all i can do is bow down to Mr.

I am also pretty sure that after reading this I won't be able to give any other crime fiction book 5 stars because then this book would also fall into the same category as the others.

This series has set a different category, a different bar for everything else to come. It's first Millennium, then 5 stars, then 4 and so on. I wish I could grab hold of them kill them badly if I was allowed to do that. To be updated View all 4 comments. I began Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with the goal of understanding what there was about this book that made it so popular.

I was gritting my teeth, convinced that getting through the book would be a most unpleasant labor. But then I found myself turning pages, not able to put it down, suprised, pleased, impressed. And so I soldiered on to the second and third books of the series, and I loved them. But to answer my original question: what is it about these books that makes them so popular? Well, I I began Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with the goal of understanding what there was about this book that made it so popular.

Well, I can at least say why I like them so much. In a word, it's characters. Lisbeth is one of the all-time best fictional characters I've ever encountered and it is her story that carries everything through.

By the third book there is no doubt that the whole series is really about her. She's unique, well-thought-through, mysterious, yet consistent and totally believable. Almost every other character with a few notable exceptions is similarly well-constructed. There are a few stick figures - minor villians mostly.

As for the plots, you could make a case that books two and three are just one long story, but Dragon Tattoo is a distinct story, though it ties closely into the next book. I liked the Dragon Tattoo plot the best, the other story is a bit far-fetched at times, but often engrossing and believable. Two other things that make these books great are the attention to detail and the incredible sense of place. Larson paints vivid pictures of all the locales, including the Caribbean island Lisbeth spends some time on.

The plot details are just that - details that sell the story, that make you believe it's happening as you read it.

If you are one of the eight people in the world who haven't read these books yet, I do recommend that you get right on it! You won't be sorry. All I can say is, if I am ever in a bad situation I would hope I could call on this young lady. View 2 comments. The stories were undoubtedly gripping, but overall I found them shallow. They profess to tackle significant issues regarding sexual violence, especially violence against women. Still, I feel they addressed them in a way that was just as exploitative as the actions Stieg Larsson so professes to hate.

The books are pure voyeurism, and the characters were fundamentally unlikeable and completely two dimensional. We never got to know them as people, simply as the concepts they were meant to represent. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo introduces us to characters who will play a role throughout the series. Blomkvist has recently been tried and charged with libel, and with his career on the rocks takes the opportunity to work on the case of the murdered of the niece of business mogul, Henrik Vanger.

In return, he will be offered the chance to clear his name. The case brings him in to contact with Lisbeth Salander. They work together and inexplicably sleep together to not only solve the case but to uncover a great many other family secrets, only to ultimately in my opinion destroy their integrity. It is essentially a story revolving around clearing Lisbeth Salander of murder charges while they research the case of sex trafficking, and political intrigue in Sweden.

The suspense, unfortunately, is all the books have going for them. The real tragedies that occur in the novels, the violence, rape, sex trafficking, etc. The victims of these horrible, dehumanizing crimes, are lost and hardly mentioned, then replaced instead with descriptions of shallow characters, with shallow lives, who have shallow sex, and write shallow articles. The fate of a young Eastern European girl who has been kidnapped and forced into the sex trade is deemed far less critical to the plot than the relationship between a man writing an article on sex trafficking, and his thesis writing girlfriend.

There is no way this can be redeemed in my eyes. The victims are given no character, and instead, we have to sit through pages of incidental detail about the tiniest moments in the lives of these superficial protagonists and their sex lives. While this sentiment is admirable, in my opinion the books fail in their objective of absolution. Perhaps these books were meant to be an homage to a woman who was a victim of a terrible crime, but the injustice is furthered by sensationalizing something that affects the lives of so many.

Misogyny, sexism, sexual violence - they are all real things. These books are some of the most graphically, sexually violent books you will ever read, and that constitutes a bit of sex?

For me, this is raping your characters all over again. If the sex was put in there only to please readers, and what readers want is sexual violence, then the writing thereof is nothing short of exploitative. David Baldacci Louise Penny C. Feeling Lucky? On Social Media! November Poll Do you look back fondly on the books you had to read for school? Yes No Maybe, if I could remember them! I'm still in school View Results. November Book Of The Month.

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