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Author:
Stieg Larsson
By Knopf
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $27.95
Our Price: $11.48
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307269997
Format: Deckle Edge
ISBN: 030726999X
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2010-05-25
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: 2010-05-25
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- ISBN13: 9780307269997
- Condition: New
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Product Description
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.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010 As the finale to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil lies in wait for Lisbeth Salander, but this time, she must do more than confront the miscreants of her past; she must destroy them. Much to her chagrin, survival requires her to place a great deal of faith in journalist Mikael Blomkvist and trust his judgment when the stakes are highest. To reveal more of the plot would be criminal, as Larsson's mastery of the unexpected is why millions have fallen hard for his work. But rest assured that the odds are again stacked, the challenges personal, and the action fraught with neck-snapping revelations in this snarling conclusion to a thrilling triad. This closing chapter to The Girl's pursuit of justice is guaranteed to leave readers both satisfied and saddened once the final page has been turned. --Dave Callanan
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the usa film version, 2010-08-31
dan craig in the usa film version? what a terrible mistake. craig must have a great agent, since craig was a lousy james bond. a terrible james bond. one must never forget that hollywood is into making money, and has no interest in quality. hollywood is into the 14 year old girl who goes to the movies with her friends and hopes the cute 16 year old boy will be there. dan craig as blomquist? what a horrible mistake.can't blame the hollywood types from trying to milk all that is possible from the larson trilogy.
 Not Close to As Good As the First Book, 2010-09-01
Honestly, if you want the long and the short of it, without spoilers, this book comes nowhere close to being as good as the first novel in Larrson's series, much like the second novel. It just doesn't. Way too much summary, lots of rehashing events three or four times through the perspectives of multiple characters, for what effect I have no idea, but it becomes so redundant that it fails to move the plot forward and it's painful in a novel that is billed as a "thriller". It's a much slower read with much fewer heart racing moments. It seems like the product of an author who was trying to milk a good idea for way too long. It's a very Salander centric novel, which normally would be a good thing, accept she spends almost the entire time in a hospital bed awaiting trial. She's not allowed to go out and cause havoc like in the first two, which would be a blast. The Salander moments are what make the series.
The ultimate killer of this novel is that there is no mystery. Unlike Dragon Tattoo and even a little bit of "Played with Fire", there is utterly no mystery either as a central plot point, or even in the conflicts themselves. What this amounts to is absolutely no suspense. The reader knows where the book is going even before the book knows its going there, and that's a death knell. It really is. This is one of the most predictable books I have ever read, and maybe that is partially intentional, but it shouldn't have been. People will rate this novel high because it is the sequel of maybe one of the greatest pure mysteries ever written, but the reality is, it doesn't deserve to stand along side Dragon Tattoo. Its not in the same league, not even the same sport, and I suspect on some level if Larsson had not died it would have been reworked and rewritten. It does have the feel of being in manuscript form, or possibly even being unfinished, a draft if you will of something that could have been much better. We will never know, and that's the ultimate tragedy of Larsson's passing, that we will never really get a "true" sequel that does the first novel justice. Ultimately I think the final two novels illustrate the pitfalls of serializing a character in that you can never really maintain the punch and suspense of when they were originally introduced. It's just too hard. If the first novel was a superb hollywood film then books two and three are like a TV series spin off...they may capture some of the zeitgeist of the original idea, but they verge into self parody far too often to do the characters justice.
This will fuel debate in literary circles that Larsson was just an amateur writer who got lucky with his first novel, captured lightning in a bottle, and was never able to do so again. I don't believe this. I think he could have been a major heavyweight and could have gone on to duplicate the success of Dragon Tattoo. Sadly he didn't get that chance, and we are all poorer for it. But to pretend that he did it in this novel or the one before it, would be an equal dishonor, as it is not his best work.
Disappointing Third Act (2.5 stars), 2010-09-02
Have to agree with all the two- and three-star reviews of this, the third act in the Millenium (Blomkvist-Salander) Trilogy. The first hundred pages or so are okay, as are the last 100 or so... but my goodness, the middle (bulk) of this story is tedious and mind-numbing for the most part, with tons of 'bit players' entering the plot, which focuses endlessly on uncovering the sordid timeline of 'the Section' and the 'Zalachenko Affair' -- most of these players having difficult-to-keep-straight Swedish last names, which decreases the overall pleasurability (and increases the confusion) in plowing through this third installment. Ultimately I'm sure most fans of the first two books -- both of which I give a solid 4 or 5 stars -- will be glad they finished the trilogy, and the ending is satisfying (if somewhat predictable).
But overall I have to tell it like it is: this one was not up to the same standards of story-telling and pacing as the first two.
Uneven but Amazing!, 2010-08-31
The pacing in this book is less even than #2, but overall it's more powerful. This plot is intricate and there's a lot of information that needs to be presented, so sometimes that slows the action. There are a number of groups working, sometimes in parallel and sometimes in cooperation, and it takes attention to keep straight who is working for whom. But I found this book at least as engrossing as the 2nd in the series. And when things started to come together at the end I just couldn't put the book down. A very powerful end to a very impressive series. These are some of the best books I've ever read.
Worth The Wait. Better than First Book of this Triology, 2010-08-31
I could not put this book down. In fact I was sorry to finish it. This second book of the Trilogy kept me in so much suspense. I have not enjoyed a literary journey such as this in many years. I am looking forward to the final installment.
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