Posted on: February 16, 2012
In the posting for this book, it was never stated that the language in which this copy of the book was offered was NOT English. Now that I returned it, weeks have turned into months and still no notice of a refund.
Posted on: January 16, 2012
Page turner, went through the 800+ pages in 2 1/2 days over a weekend, couldn't put it down. A good ending for 3 books.
Posted on: January 30, 2012
Lisbeth Salander se ha tomado un tiempo: necesita apartarse del foco de atencion y salir de Estocolmo. Trata de seguir una ferrea disciplina y no contestar a las llamadas ni a los mensajes de Mikael que no entiende por que ha desaparecido de su vida sin dar ningun tipo de explicacion. Lisbeth se cura las heridas de amor en soledad aunque intente distraer el desencanto mediante el estudio de las matematicas y con ciertos placeres en una playa del Caribe. Y Mikael? El gran heroe vive buenos momentos en Millennium con las finanzas de la revista saneadas y el reconocimiento profesional por parte de los colegas. Ahora tiene entre manos un reportaje apasionante sobre el trafico y la prostitucion de mujeres procedentes del Este que le ha propuesto Dag Svensson periodista de investigacion y su mujer la criminologa e investigadora de genero Mia Bergman. Las vidas de los dos protagonistas parecen haberse separado por completo pero entretanto... una muchacha atada a una cama soporta un dia tras otro…
Lei el primero de la trilogia, es bastante bueno, pero este tiene demasiada sensualidad innecesaria. Demasiado detalle de lesbianismo asi como matrimonios que tienen amantes y que la pareja esta de acuerdo en que lo tengan. Y esto es solo el principio!
Aunque el tema es de la calidad del primer libro, este tiene demasiada distraccion en el area sensual/sexual.
Hay mucha mejor lectura que esta!
Posted on: February 16, 2012
Stieg Larsson Man, Myth & Mistress who created the Millennium Trilogy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest Is Lisbeth Salander a feminist — or a comic book avenger? Is her creator Stieg Larsson a feminist — or a prurient, violent hack? What is the Millennium Trilogy really about? Is it literature or vicarious violence and sex? Should Eva Gabrielsson be in charge of the Girl franchise? Should there be a second Salander Trilogy? Who built the Stieg Larsson myth, and is any of it true? Bestselling authors André Jute and Andrew McCoy wittily investigate the evidence — and arrive at the correct politically incorrect answers. They fix the blame for the Larsson scandal on… surprising people. Some Millennium fans will riot, most will be riotously entertained. ‘Jute is great…a private godsend.’ Ruth Rendell, The Times
My first encounter with Andre Jute's work was way back in the 1980s when I was working my way towards writing my first novel, when I read his excellent Writing a Thriller (Writing Handbooks). I devoured any writing book I could find at that time and, to be frank, most were regurgitated pap. Jute's was different. Much like John Braine's book on novel-writing, Jute took a strongly individual approach, but unlike Braine he was more open to variation: rather than "this is the way to do it and if you don't like it, stop reading" of Braine, Jute showed alternative approaches, was open to people doing it their way and, above all, applied a sharp intelligence to the whole process of novel-writing. In The Larsson Scandal, Jute (with collaborator Andrew McCoy) turns that analytical intelligence to the recent phenomenon of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. The Larsson Scandal is a work of criticism, but more, it's a study of how a collision of circumstance can lead to an entertainment industry happening, with books that sell by the million and high-budget movies to follow. While The Larsson Scandal is worth reading for the criticism alone, for me it was the story of the story that made this book required reading for anyone with an interesting in the publishing industry. It should be acknowledged that criticism, by its nature, focuses on the negative, and at times this book is bitingly critical. Jute and McCoy do state often that they are fans of Larsson's work, but inevitably…
Posted on: February 14, 2012
This book started its life with the Swedish title "Men who hate women" but was published in English as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - available from Amazon in July.
The title Millenium is for a trilogy by Stieg Larsson, which was published in Sweden after he died of a massive heartattack in 2004 (according to Wikipedia.) The series is about one journalist/owner of a magazine called Millenium, and his experience solving mysteries with the Girl of the English title. As far as I can see, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the TV series Millenium.
The second volume will be available in January, called the same as the Swedish, The Girl Who Played With Fire.
The third novel in Swedish is "Luftslottet som sprängdes" ("The air castle that blew up"). I suppose the English title will be "the girl who blew up air castles"?
I read the first 2 in the Danish translation and enjoyed them thoroughly. The girl of the title has Asperger's Syndrom to a relatively high degree, which makes her a very interesting person - highly disfunctional and highly intelligent, with a rather interesting history, which becomes clearer in the second book. I am looking forward to the third.
As one reviewer wrote, it's a shame that he died. His books are very entertaining.
Posted on: February 8, 2012
The main theme is the integration of the theory of linear PDE and the theory of finite difference and finite element methods. For each type of PDE, elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic, the text contains one chapter on the mathematical theory of the differential equation, followed by one chapter on finite difference methods and one on finite element methods. The chapters on elliptic equations are preceded by a chapter on the two-point boundary value problem for ordinary differential equations. Similarly, the chapters on time-dependent problems are preceded by a chapter on the initial-value problem for ordinary differential equations. There is also one chapter on the elliptic eigenvalue problem and eigenfunction expansion. The presentation does not presume a deep knowledge of mathematical and functional analysis. The required background on linear functional analysis and Sobolev spaces is reviewed in an appendix. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students…
I've found this book to be an excellent refresher, and I think that folks who don't have much experience in this field may find it to be an excellent introduction. It offers a theoretical overview of partial differential equations with examples of numerical methods for solving these equations.
Sadly I must warn anyone thinking of buying the Kindle version: download the sample first and examine the formatting. You will find that the equations, while effectively readable, are not well produced on the Kindle. From time to time you will have to guess what a character is, and infer what is meant when, for example, we are told the length is "a |" when in fact it should read "| a |". Another example, the subscript "i" looks like an "l" which is definitely not a good thing for mathematical text. This doesn't make the book impossible to read, but it does slow down the reading flow in a very annoying way.
If you are planning on purchasing this book, you may want to consider buying the paperback for just a few dollars (or cents, if you go from other sellers) more, and not have to waste your time and money paying for a poor 1980s xerox-copy quality overpriced version.
To be 100% clear, though, I loved the book, but did not appreciate Amazon's quality in the Kindle version and feel a bit cheated.
Posted on: February 2, 2012
Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee.
I was surprised by how let down I was by this book. Yes, there were a lot of elements to it that I found deeply satisfying, but it just did not have the impact of the first and especially the second books for me. Where The Girl Who Played with Fire was so explosive I found myself gasping, this book just didn't provoke anything like that reaction for me. I'll write in very vague terms in an attempt to avoid spoilers. First off, I have to say that I was very uninterested in the side plot involving Erika Berger. I've never really liked her character all that much, and having a good portion of the book devoted to her was a disappointment for me. I didn't feel that this aspect of the story did anything to move the plot. I can sum it up by saying that I felt it was unnecessary. The most eye-rolling part of the story for me was Mikael's continued conquests. That guy gets around, and then some. This is a plot point that I frankly find silly as I've always found Mikael a pretty vanilla character, so it's a little difficult for me to determine just what is so irresistible about him. Throughout the series, I derived more enjoyment from reading about his journalistic methods than I did actually reading about him, and this book is no exception. He does gets points for being a champion for Lisbeth, though. That said, it's probably not too difficult to figure out that what I most care about in these books is Lisbeth. What was really disappointing about this book was how long it took to bring…
Posted on: February 16, 2012
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
My thoughts; "Eh." I don't know, where does one start? I picked this book up after hearing how it was a best seller in Europe. A complex murder mystery that gripped the continent and if not for his unfortunate early demise would bring forth a novelist who would take the publishing world by storm. After reading the five star reviews on Amazon and watching the QuickTime advertisement that provided stats that any author would envy, I sat back with a large cup of cocoa and prepared myself for a literary experience. I was excited. ***THERE BE SPOILERS BELOW*** The prologue didn't disappoint. I was immediately hooked. A tired elderly old man, Henrik Vagner, is ravaged by the disappearance of his niece and the gift he has received for his eighty-second birthday, a pressed framed flower. He has been receiving this same gift, mailed from different parts of the world, on the first day of November for the past forty-three years. The book does a great job setting itself up. We go from the prologue to the main character Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist for the muckraker magazine, Millennium. The story opens with Mikael being disgraced in the courts for libel against the Wennerstrom corporation and sentenced to a few months prison. Before he is to go to prison, he is summoned to the Vangner residence where he is hired to perform one last investigation into the disappearance of Henrik's niece, Harriet Vagner. We are also introduced to Lisbeth Salander, a physically and emotionally abused…
Posted on: February 22, 2012
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy...Lisbeth Salander--the heart of Larsson's two previous novels--lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson's three-part novel celebrates the author's admiration for powerful women through the typically masculine authorial device of having all the women fall for his idealized persona, Mikael Blomkvist. The series of over-capable women who beg to have sex with Mikael includes a variety of characters, but Larsson isolates power as their core charm by focusing on the one who wouldn't seem to have any others, Lisbeth Salander. She has no figure, bad hair, no "personality," and doesn't cook, but aside from that ... In Lisbeth, Larsson essentially gives Edmond Dantes (aka le Comte de Monte Cristo) a baby sister who shares her big brother's super-human powers, updated for the Information Age. Like Dantes, Lisbeth merges fantastic cunning and physical strength to escape imprisonment, work the system for an inexhaustible fortune, and create an unstoppable extra-legal machine of revenge for the outrages suffered by women in general including herself, and more particularly her mother (vs. his father in Dantes' case). She even celebrates final victory by sailing off anonymously to an island in the same sea as Dantes' isle of Monte Cristo. The Mikael-Lisbeth team's adventures in suffering and righting wrongs provides the crime-thriller framework for the trilogy. Larsson writes plainly but unerringly and with detail and patience, yet he stuffs the trilogy with so many Hollywood…
Posted on: February 22, 2012
Readers all across America are talking about Stieg Larsson’s #1 best-selling trilogy—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest—which has more than 12 million copies in print. Now, just in time for the holidays: a deluxe, slip-cased set of the three hardcover novels—each unjacketed, bound in full cloth and uniquely stamped, with maps and individual full-color endpapers—as well as On Stieg Larsson, a previously unpublished collection of essays about and correspondence with the author.The perfect collectible for the Stieg Larsson fan and the ideal gift for those who have yet to meet his heroine, Lisbeth Salander, “one of the most fascinating characters in modern genre fiction” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Authors who are only published posthumously rarely get the attention they deserve', or any attention at all. Fortunately, such is not the case with the late Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy -- it starts off slow, and soon winds itself into a tight knot of tautly-written thriller and mystery elements. It's raw, bleak, intensely disturbing noir. In "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," take-no-prisoners journalist Mikael Blomkvist has just lost his reputation, his savings and his freedom (hello, jail sentence!) after a nasty libel suit from an executive named Wennerström. Then he's unexpectedly contacted by aged industrialist Henrik Vanger, to discover what happened to the guy's grandniece. He's offering evidence on Wennerström, so Mikael has no choice but to accept -- and as he investigates the sinister Vanger family, he joins forces with Lisbeth Salander, an eccentric, abused computer hacker. And as Mikael unearths the clues to Harriet's disappearance, he also finds some skeletons long kept buried. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" finds Mikael investigating sex trafficking in his own country, and young girls who are sold into it. Unknown to him, Lisbeth is keeping very close tabs on his work -- especially since she was abused as a child, and now plots revenge on the sex traffickers. But when she's accused of murder and ends up on the run, Mikael must discover what lies at the core of these crimes... And finally, "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets'…
Posted on: February 8, 2012
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) I really don't understand the critical orgasms over this book. Amazon pushed it on me for weeks, and the minute I stepped into Borders an employee ran over and recommended it. Thinking, this really better be the best book I've ever read, I took it up to the checkstand, where the register guy asked: "Did one of our employees recommend this?" Um, yeah. And Amazon, too. So of course I asked him why. "Oh," he replied, "we've been told to recommend it this week." That should have tipped me off right there: recommendations handed down by management. Pfft. I hesitate to suggest a conspiracy, but - did someone end up with too many of these in a warehouse in Duluth? Did Oprah make a bet with someone that she could pull strings and make the most boring book in the world a best seller? But I am suckered in by numerous good reviews and a fairly interesting book jacket description, so I buy it and take it with me on a trip camping with my family. Of course it totally sucks. I'm kicking myself because I feel like I really should have known. But the reviews - ALL the reviews - are absolutely positive from generally reliable sources, so I just DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND. Here's why I don't like it: I am about a third of the way into it, and literally hundreds of characters have been introduced. NOT ONE of them has done anything interesting, so I am finding it nearly impossible to keep them straight. I am the type that will be more…
Posted on: February 22, 2012
La primera novela de Stieg Larsson de su saga Trilogia Millennium.Harriet Vanger desaparecio hace treinta y seis anos en una isla sueca propiedad de su poderosa familia. A pesar del despliegue policial, no se encontro ni rastro de la muchacha. Se escapo? Fue secuestrada? Asesinada? El caso esta cerrado y los detalles olvidados. Pero su tio Henrik Vanger, un empresario retirado, vive obsesionado con resolver el misterio antes de morir. En las paredes de su estudio cuelgan cuarenta y tres flores secas y enmarcadas. Las primeras siete fueron regalos de su sobrina; las otras llegaron puntualmente para su cumpleanos, de forma anonima, desde que Harriet desaparecio. Mikael Blomkvist acepta el extrano encargo de Vanger de retomar la busqueda de su sobrina. Periodista de investigacion y alma de la revista Millennium, dedicada a sacar a la luz los trapos sucios de la politica y las finanzas, Blomkvist esta vigilado y encausado por una querella por difamacion y calumnia presentada por un gran grupo…
No soy hablante nativo de español, pero he pasado unos meses en el D.F. de Méjico y en Madrid, y me encanta leer novelas en español aunque muchas de ellas que originaron en un idioma que no fuera castellano me han parecido, francamente, algo torpemente traducidas, con rastros del sintaxis del idioma del autor. En cambio esta novela siempre me suena, aún en las secciones de diálogo, como el castellano castizo de España (que tanto echo de menos en las novelas, por ejemplo, de Dan Brown traducidas al español).
Larsson no es un gran estilista literaria, ni mucho menos, sin embargo sus personajes resultan pintados con detallada maestría, sobre todo en el caso de Lisbeth Salander, cuya historia personal psicológica se desarrolla lógica y sensiblemente, presentando a una mujer sumamente creíble y hasta semi-amable a pesar de sus modales estrambóticas.
La cantidad de detalles históricos, geográficos y lo demás me ha dejado asombrado, y el autor sabe manejarlo todo sin dejar al lector ni aburrido ni fatigado. Total que, en mi opinión es una maravilla esta novela.
Posted on: February 22, 2012
Here is the real inside story—not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. Her name is Eva Gabrielsson. Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. In “There Are Things I Want You to Know” about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larsson’s readers with the inside account of how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources were for Lisbeth and his other characters—graciously answering Stieg Larsson’s readers’…
So you've read The Millenium Trilogy and you enjoyed it. Eva's book provides the background for many of the characters, for the settings and for the main character's moral compasses. Read it!!
Posted on: February 16, 2012
Två svårt skadade personer tas in akut på Sahlgrenska sjukhuset i Göteborg. Den ena är Lisbeth Salander, som är eferlyst misstänkt för dubbelmord. Hon har en livshotande skottskada i huvudet och måste opereras omedelbart. Den andre personen heter Alexander Zalachenko, en äldre man som är allvarligt skadad sedan Salander huggit homon med en yxa.
Den tredje och avslutande delen i Millenniumserien tar vid där Flickan some lekte med elden slutade. Lisbeth Salander överlevde visserligen att bli begravd, men hennes problem är långt ifrån över. Zalachenko har tidigare varit yrkesmördare i den sovjetiska underrättelsetjänsten. Han är dessuton Salanders far och det är han som försökt ta livet av henne. Starka krafter vill tysta Lisbeth Salander en gång för alla.
Samtidigt skriver Mikael Blomkvist på ett avslöjande reportage som kommer att rentvå Lisbeth Salander och skaka regeringen, Säpo och hela landet i dess grundvalar.
I read the other two books in this series in Swedish (original language), and was so happy to find the third one on Amazon in Swedish as well! In the U.S it is only out in hardcover at the moment, but I prefer paperback, as it is easier to bring on the subway (I know, there is such a thing as Kindle, but I like real books...). The delivery was fast for being international shipping- about 5 business days. It was in perfect condition. I am very happy with everything. WOuld buy from this seller again.
Posted on: February 16, 2012
There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story better than he can, and that is his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book.The keys to the "Stieg Larsson phenomenon" all lie with Stieg Larsson the man. No one knew him like Gabrielsson. Here, she tells the story of their 30-year romance; of Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden's neo-Nazis; of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, Expo, alive; of his difficult relationships with his immediate family; and of the joy and the relief he discovered writing the Millenium trilogy. Above all, this is a love story, and we come to understand, reading "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me, that if there was another secret besides Larsson's own imagination and convictions, it was his absolute love for his companion and her nurturing of their privacy and shared passions.The book is told as a series of short vignettes, with titles ranging from "Speaking of Coffee"…
If ever there were anyone who had an excuse to grind axes, it would be Eva Gabrielsson, who lived with author Stieg Larsson for thirty-two years but who, through a loophole in Swedish law, inherited nothing upon his death at age fifty in 2004, his entire estate going, by law, to his estranged brother and father. Gabrielsson has often said that she is not personally interested in the enormous sums which his Millenium Trilogy sales have generated. As dedicated to social causes as Larsson was, she is fighting, instead, for control of his literary legacy, especially alarmed because, she fears, that if present trends continue, she could even see his name on beer cans. Remarkably objective and straightforward for most of the book, Gabrielsson describes Larsson's early life in the remote north of Sweden, where he lived with his grandparents from infancy until the age of nine, absorbing his grandfather's stories and pacifist political views. After his grandfather's death, Larsson rejoined his mother and father in the city, six hundred miles to the south. Though Larsson felt comfortable with his mother, he never formed a strong bond with his father or younger brother, according to Gabrielsson. In 1972, just after his eighteenth birthday, he met nineteen-year-old Eva at a rally in support of the Front National de Liberation in Vietnam (FLN), a Trotskyite group. Soul-mates, she says, they simultaneously supported communist causes and a strict, old-fashioned morality, believing in justice…
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