I had just read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and thought it was a fairly well written story with seedy and sinister elements (be warned of extreme situations of rape and murder) and my favorite character by far was Lisbeth Salander. Mikael was the typical Chad detective who seemlingly every woman wants to sleep with (I had to look past this but it was really ridiculous) and his character was for me very hard to read. But Salander was a quite complex character and very nuanced in several different ways, until TGWPWF. Within the first 38 pages, Larrson had managed to completely ruined her character, by having her all of a sudden care about her appearance by getting breast implants and then seducing a 16 year old MINOR BOY and letting him have sex with her. I am so upset right now that Larrson managed to destroy his one redeeming character within the introduction of his 2nd book in his series.
by Zachytb97
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Babbys First Non Harry Potter Series
Not a MINOR BOY! 😨
Whenever these novels are mentioned, I recall an amusing interaction outside a popular bar in Stockholm (it was Riche and many, many moons ago). There’s a long queue and a guy is stopped at the VIP entrance, causing him to shout “Do you know who I am? I’m Stieg Larsson” (but in Swedish, of course).
I rather enjoyed the stories though.
Ok well you missed out on a great book lol
16 not a minor in Sweden.
16?? Ewwww
So you didn’t finish it? ? you’ve read the first book that deals with rape, murder and bdsm stuff, but you draw the line at breast implants and minor seduction??
That’ll teach ’em
Age of consent in Sweden is 15
I find the Chad detective character a mainstay in Scandi noir across different authors. Every woman he comes across wants to sleep with him— no matter how screwed up or emotionally immature the detective might be
I wanted to start the Millennium Trilogy but I held off.
Lisbeth Salander remains a really interesting character to me
The breast implants got mentioned time and again to the point where I thought they would have to be a plot device. But no … No, they weren’t.
The second book is a far cry from the first. It does set up the story for the third, but they both fall a long way from the first book in terms of plot and quality. I’ll admit to thoroughly enjoying the court scenes in the third book, but will not argue if anyone was to say they were a bit cheap.
The movies are better