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Standing Wolf
09-22-2017, 08:06 AM
Wow! Just got an email that David Lagercrantz, the Swedish writer who penned the wonderful 'The Girl in the Spider's Web', a continuation of the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, is going to be in town on Tuesday to sign 'The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye'.

Larsson's trilogy, which began with the posthumously published 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', has sold 80 million copies worldwide, and deservedly so; Larsson was an incredibly gifted writer, and his heroine, Lisbeth Salander, one of the most original and memorable characters in recent literature. Lagercrantz's first continuation novel was brilliant, and fans of the Millennium series have been seriously jones-ing for another.

http://d39ttiideeq0ys.cloudfront.net/assets/images/content/MillenniumImage.jpg

Standing Wolf
11-19-2019, 08:55 PM
Wow, that was two years ago - it doesn't seem like it. Meeting Lagercrantz was wonderful. I don't know why, but I imagined that he'd be some stuffy, very serious type, and he was anything but. Funny, animated - kind of a nut, but in a good way.

His second Millennium series book, 'The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye' was as perfect as the first, and every bit as worthy a follow up to Steig Larsson's original trilogy as 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' - which later became a movie.

Updating this thread because I just discovered that Lagercrantz published yet another entry in the series - 'The Girl Who Lived Twice' - last August. (Something else that I somehow missed while I was in recovery mode from the pneumonia.) He told us back when he visited Scottsdale in 2017 that he planned to only do three, as he has his own characters to write about, but I think the unanimous opinion of fans of the series would be that he shouldn't stop.

And if you enjoy a good story - mystery, suspense, police procedural, what-have-you...these books have it all - and you've never read 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' or any of its sequels, you're missing out. MOST highly recommended.

Cotton1
11-19-2019, 09:08 PM
Have you read this one he wrote about the English mathematician who was prominent in reading encrypted German code? I thought it was great !

https://amp-washingtontimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/13/book-review-fall-of-man-in-wilmslow/?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%3D#aoh=15742154840766&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Famp.washingtontimes.com%2Fn ews%2F2016%2Fjul%2F13%2Fbook-review-fall-of-man-in-wilmslow%2F%23aoh%3D15742154840766%26referrer%3Dht tps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%26amp_tf%3DFrom%2 520%25251%2524s


https://youtu.be/gtRLmL70TH0

Cotton1
11-19-2019, 10:48 PM
Standing Wolf. Its amazing you brought up Lagercrantz. I fell asleep last night watching this last night. I never read fiction but I love history , math and bios.
If youre into this sort of thing here is a great youtube. Turing was the man at Blechley Park


https://youtu.be/xnr4pM-ntdc

The Sage of Main Street
11-20-2019, 06:23 PM
Wow! Just got an email that David Lagercrantz, the Swedish writer who penned the wonderful 'The Girl in the Spider's Web', a continuation of the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, is going to be in town on Tuesday to sign 'The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye'.

Larsson's trilogy, which began with the posthumously published 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', has sold 80 million copies worldwide, and deservedly so; Larsson was an incredibly gifted writer, and his heroine, Lisbeth Salander, one of the most original and memorable characters in recent literature. Lagercrantz's first continuation novel was brilliant, and fans of the Millennium series have been seriously jones-ing for another.

http://d39ttiideeq0ys.cloudfront.net/assets/images/content/MillenniumImage.jpg


Superior Minds Indoctrinated With an Inferiority Complex

The intentionally and desperately freaky genius-girl gives High IQs a bad image. This is mandated by the plutocracy, which makes its family fortunes off making creative geniuses depressed and escapist. I notice the book shows that Sweden is run by HeirHeads, which is why its fake humanitarianism should be called "Socialite Socialism." From each according to his abilities and nothing extra for himself.