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Justice
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A young girl lies in a hospital room, her tattooed body very close to death -- there is a bullet lodged in her brain. Several rooms away is the man who tried to kill her, his own body grievously wounded from axe blows inflicted by the girl he has tried to kill. She is Lisbeth Salander, computer hacker and investigator, and the man is her father, a murderous Russian gangster. If Salander recovers from her injuries, she is more than likely to be put on trial for three murders -- the authorities regard her as a dangerous individual. But she won't see the inside of a courtroom if her father manages to kill her first.
This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).
There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…) --Barry Forshaw
Customer review
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| Nur ganz kurz, der Inhalt des Buches, wie auch die beiden vorhergehenden Teile sind super. Darum geht es gar nicht. Möchte nur was loswerden zur Verarbeitung des Buches. Es ist ja die englischsprachige Version des Buches des Quercus Verlags. Also eine englische Firma. Offenbar scheint in England tatsächlich nie die Sonne und es regnet nur. Man sollte das Buch nämlcih keineswegs mit an den Strand, auf die Wiese oder sonstwo der Sonne aussetzen. Die Seiten lösen sich ständig vom Buchrücken. Hab jetzt schon dreimal Seiten einkleben müssen, was natürlich nie wirklich schön wird... Sehr schade, ist mir so auch noch nie bei einem Buch passier. |
Justice  |
| "I traverse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice," -- Proverbs 8:20 I assume that you know there are two earlier books in this trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. If you didn't know that, read those books first. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest deals with the consequences of the violent episode at the end of The Girl Who Played with Fire where Lisbeth Salander meets her father and brother. While that battle within the family would normally play itself out among those three, modern society isn't likely to permit that. Too many other agendas need to be served. This book recounts how those who want to take advantage of the situation face off against those who want to see justice done. Along the way, you'll find yourself thinking long and hard about what doing justice means to someone who has been dealt as bad a hand by her family and government as Lisbeth Salander has been. Stieg Larsson clearly has that purpose in mind as he develops a resolution that's as much social commentary as it is a suspense story. Lisbeth will continue to amaze you. I found that story to be very intricate and complex. You may have to remind yourself from the earlier books who some of the characters are. Although it was rewarding in the end, a simpler, shorter story would have worked better for me. This book came across as though it could have used more structural editing, excising major plot lines. Hang on the end and you'll be glad you did. Stieg Larsson's monumental work of imagination will leave you wishing he were around to write a fourth book in the series. Perhaps someone else will be asked to do so. I hate the thought of not reading about Lisbeth Salander as a character in new stories. Great series! I must admit, though, that this was by far my least favorite of the three books. Don't get your hopes up too high. |
| Nicht ganz so gut wie die Vorgänger, aber ein gelungener Abschluss |
| Das Buch ist nicht ganz so gut wie die Vorgänger, aber ein gelungener Abschluss. Für meinen Geschmack ein wenig zu viel über Geheimdienste. Die Vorgänger waren da einfach packender geschrieben! |
| I fell into a hole today... |
| ... because I finished this book, after having read the other two books of this trilogy. After many hours of thrilling reading I cannot say how sorry I am that the book is over now. What comes next? Don't know. Contrary to the two other books of the sequel, this one here is more of a conspiracy story, not so much about force, murders and killers. But especially in the second half of the book it turned out to be extremely difficult to lay it aside. Altogether the triology must have been some of the best books I have read so far. |
| brilliant! |
| First I thought: well, about 700 pages that's a lot! But once I started reading the story caught me and I couldn't stop reading until finished. It's just brilliant how Stieg Larsson develops his story and introduces the reader into the characters and how the whole thing ends up. A shame that this talented writer passed away too soon! |
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