The Girl Who Played With Fire – youtube, movie teaser

January 8, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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The movie is now playing in Scandinavia, and is a great success. See also review of The Girl Who Played With Fire, and a nice blog post about Stieg Larsson and that girl with the dragon tattoo.

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Stieg Larsson’s books hot in England

February 16, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: book news, crime book, Fiction, International bestseller, Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, recommendation, Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer 

The following list, from amazon in England, is quite interesting to a fan a Stieg Larsson!

The most popular items in Fiction at amazon UK. Updated hourly. (Average customer rating in parentheses):

  1. Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga), by Stephenie Meyer (3.8)
  2. When Will There be Good News?? by Kate Atkinson (3.9)
  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (4.2)
  4. The 19th Wife, by David Ebershoff, (4.5)
  5. The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson (4.6)
  6. The Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry (3.8)
  7. The Shack, by William P. Young (3.6)
  8. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink (4.2)
  9. Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (4.8)
  10. Wetlands, by Charlotte Roche (3.1)

So, right now Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is in third place and at the same time his The Girl Who Played with Fire is in the fifth place! That is quite remarkable!

Both of Stieg Larsson’s books have excellent customer ratings. The only book ranked higher among the current top ten by customers is the extremely remarkable Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates. That is also quite a feat by Stieg Larsson. It is very sad that he did not live to see his astonishing success!

Links to Stieg Larsson’s books at Amazon US: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire.

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Stieg Larsson on the New York Times bestseller list!

January 8, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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I was delighted to open the book section of New York Times today, and find the Stieg Larsson’s excellent crime fiction book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was now number 4 on the list of paperback fiction bestsellers. I have been unable to understand why this book has not been selling better than it has in the US, as it is one of my all time favorites. Now, however, it seems the publisher is doing a little more promotion of the book, and it seems to be paying off.

Here is the top 10 list:

1. My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult. A girl sues her parents when learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.

2. The Shack, by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to a shack, apparently by God.

3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. A journalist travels to Guernsey.

4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.

5. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction, by Elizabeth Strout. A math teacher is the link in 13 stories set on the Maine coast.

6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. The classic retold with “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.”

7. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein. A Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.

8. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. Life with a dashing librarian who travels in time.

9. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt for treasure.

10. A Summer Affair: A Novel, by Elin Hilderbrand. A successful married artist is attracted to a billionaire on Nantucket.

For a lover of Scandinavian crime fiction, this is a good day. I hope 2009 will contine to be a good year for crime fiction and thrillers from Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland!

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What is the name of Stieg Larsson’s third book?

December 15, 2008 by · 3 Comments
Filed under: book news, crime book, Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer 

For a long time I have been certain that the third book in the Millennium-trilogy by Stieg Larsson would be named Castles in the Sky. That is that name many people use, and which is used at stieglarsson.com.

However, now I am not so sure. Just today I came across translator Steven T. Murray’s page on Wikipedia, and there I found that he was currently engaged in translating the third book of the Millennium-series, entiteled The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.

This title makes some sense – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – all titles with “The Girl Who”, so that it becomes a series by virtue of the naming. Also, Castles in the Sky makes sense from the point of view of the content of the book, but since the book is to a large extent about Lisbeth Salander, so does “The Girl Who Kicke the Hornets Nest“.

Oh well. I guess we will soon know which it is!

PS: See reviews of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire at ScandinavianBooks.com!

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Stieg Larsson wins 2008 Boeke prize in South Africa

November 5, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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Women24 writes:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Scandinavian author, Stieg Larsson, took home the prize as the winner of the 2008 Exclusive Books Boeke competition on 7 October 2008.

Larsson’s debut novel is an epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents and taking in complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family.

It won Sweden’s Glass Key Award in 2005 for best crime novel of the year. … Larsson’s award marks the 10th time in the 14-year history of the Boeke Prize that a debut novel has scooped the award.

The Boeke Prize promotes the enjoyment of discovering books that compel, that are fresh, original and captivating good reads. The judges’ panel comprised 40 book critics across South Africa.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is, as the other two books in the series, a wonderful book. I think Stieg Larsson  will be getting many more prizes for it!

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