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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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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