The Millenium Trilogy - aka The Girl With ...

[Virgil Reality]

Has anyone else got into this trilogy of three novels by the late Swedish author, Stieg Larsson- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Girl Who Played With Fire and Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest and the movies based on them.

I got quite hooked recently - thought the movie was quite a good adaptation and thankfully they toned down a souple of the more brutal scenes. They seemed to include a few scenes from the second book into the first movie and I gather the second is a made-for TV series version which they hastily cobbled together and released as a movie after the success of the first. It isn't released here yet.

The actress who played Lisbeth was well cast and did a great job. They are in the process of making an English language version with Daniel Craig as Blomquist. I hope they retain the Swedish setting. I read it with map by my side - brought back memories as I stayed in Sodermalm when I was in Stockholm - gosh, is it really five years ago?

ANyway, recommended. Probably not a classic but certainly a page-turner.

[Gg]

I wish they'd leave the film alone -- it's perfect as it is and there's really no need to make an English language version, we can see the divine original version will no real problem in the US.

[jenny]

My Dad just popped the 1st 2 books in the mail for me on Thursday. Can't wait to start reading. I've heard they are page turners. He said that he stayed up 1/2 the night reading the first book. Had to take a nap the next day.
Yet another reason to procrastinate on reorganizing the house!

[ionashes]

I saw the movie a weeks ago, it's a great adaptation of the first book of the trilogy. I read a while ago about the films. I read they were filmed at the same time and it's posible to see the second and the last movie as a TV series because the producers didn't want to cut parts and characters from the books. I guess it's a good idea.
If you can, try to read the books firts, you will love them!

[Scotbritt]

I saw the first film back in theatres and then read the book adaptation of it. Omg, so good. While I was reading it my dad wanted to read it as well.

Recently I saw the second film which I think I enjoyed more than the first because the content was less on the disturbing side and more on the mysterious past side which I enjoyed. I'm excited to see the third one too. I don't know how I feel about the American translated version though...I think I'll stick to the Swedish versions and keep reading the series.