TGwtDT (Spoilers)

[JeffKamin]

Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and immediately started audio version of The Girl Who Played with Fire - worth it. Keep reading.

Anyone else care to start the discussion here?

[Carter]

I just finished TGwtDT as well and was going to immediately start the December book (already read November's), but then discovered that it isn't posted yet. How's that coming?

[E]

This was the perfect post-Infinite Jest read. Haven't read a page-turner in quite a while.

Anybody know what a Practical Pig complex is (p. 559)?

[JeffKamin]

I liked The Girl Who Played with Fire even more. If you liked TGwtDT at all, like 3, 3.5 stars of 5 or higher, you must read the next one. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.

[elihoughton]

I agree this was the perfect book after Infinite Jest. Nicely planned. Excellent book for someone struggling to find time to read.

[Beth]

It's been a long time since I've read a thriller/mystery like this, too. I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to reading The Girl Who Played with Fire--even though I'm something like 90th in queue for it at the library.

LOVE Lisbeth Salander. She's a fascinating hero character, and for personal reasons I adore her for being a short, small woman fully capable of kicking ass.

Now if only I could be at the discussion tomorrow night. Sadly, work beckons.

[JeffKamin]

First a short quotation from an email sent from Stieg Larsson to his Swedish Publisher: "I have tried to swim against the tide compared to ordinary crime novels. I wanted to create main characters who differ dramatically from the ordinary crime characters. My point of departure was what Pippi Longstocking would be like as an adult. Would she be called a sociopath because she looked upon society in a different way and did not have any social competences? She turned into Lisbeth Salander who has many masculine features."

Lisbeth Salander alias Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren

http://my.opera.com/dortejakobsen/blog/lisbeth-salander-alias-pippi-longstocking

[JeffKamin]

Kalle Blomkvist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bergson

[Carter]

Sorry I missed this evening. Whatever the hell the dentist did to me today left me with a raging headache and a sore jaw. See you at the next one.

[elihoughton]

[MeMe]

I assumed "Practical Pig Complex" to mean someone who is fixated on catching the "Big Bad Wolf".

Would be interested f anyone has any other interpretations.

Great book looking forward to reading more.[/quote]

[zendruid]

yeah,

someone after a Big Bad Wolf--how appropriate in a Nordic tale--but also someone intent on "building" a better mousetrap, house, society--esp for those Practical Pig assumes can't help themselves--definitely not Lisbeth--but others

and something else if it'a a complex--reflexive, non-rational, pathological...what?

haven't started GWPW/Fire yet--so please no spoilers, be gentle...smile

[Francofinch]

Should say that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a dazzling novel of big ideas' Harlan Coben. 'Brilliantly written the characters are superbly drawn and the story grips from first to last.. like it too

[zendruid]

having now read all now and had a chance to teach GwtDT, I think the series succeeds (both itself) and within pomo frameworks--mostly because of Lisbeth's unerring sense of personal justice and then the drive to achieve it--no matter how roughly--and Practical pig, Mikael, is such a good foil for her wild thang sensibility--hope the American film version isn't too big a cluster

[JeffKamin]

Recently saw the third film. It was good. I think the American films will be pretty well done, intense and dark, with Fincher flourishes. The second book is still my fave for the thrills.