About this title: Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her anywhere. Meanwhile, Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781906694180ISBN:1906694184
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: QUERCUS PUBLISHING PLC Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781906694180ISBN:1906694184
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 608 pages. The second instalment in the millennium trilogy sees lisbeth salander wanted for murder while blomkvist tries desperately to clear her name. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781847245571ISBN:1847245579
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781906694180ISBN:1906694184
Description: New. The second instalment in the Millennium Trilogy sees Lisbeth Salander wanted for murder while Blomkvist tries desperately to clear her name. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Date Published: 2/12/2009
ISBN-13:9781906694159ISBN:190669415X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: July 2009
ISBN-13:9780307269980ISBN:0307269981
Description: 0-307-26998-1 The Barnes & Noble Review Joy is not the first emotion one would expect to feel while reading a long Swedish crime novel that deals with misogyny, sex trafficking, police corruption, and a handful of explicitly gruesome murders. Yet The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally bestselling Millennium series, turns a reader inside out with a joy that can't be squashed, not even by the grim knowledge that the 50-year-old author died suddenly in ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A., 2009
ISBN-13:9780307269980ISBN:0307269981
Description: Small quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine red and yellow pictorial dj. Sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. 528pp. Originally written in Swedish; the author died shortly after submitting this and the next sequel manuscripts, in 2004. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: QUERCUS PUBLISHING PLC Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781847245564ISBN:1847245560
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 572 pages. Lisbeth salander is a wanted woman. two millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in sweden are brutally murdered, and salander's prints are on the weapon. her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society-but no-one can find her anywhere. (Hardback) read more
"This book is the second of three in Larsson's series featuring Lisbeth Salander, the young woman who has her own sense of morality and acts on it accordingly. As this book opens, we find young Lisbeth in the Caribbean after the events of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Meanwhile, the erstwhile reporter Kalle Blomkvist and the team at Millennium are sitting on top of a goldmine of a story. With the help of a woman who is finishing her PhD thesis and that of her husband, who is writing a book based on her findings, Blomkvist is ready to publicly uncover a scandal in which some high-ranking officials are involved in sex trafficking from Russia and other parts of eastern Europe into Sweden. Eventually Lisbeth returns home, and goes into hiding. After a triple homicide, the police become interested in finding her (as does Blomkvist) because the clues at the murder scenes lead directly back to her. At this point, Blomkvist, who is absolutely convinced that Lisbeth is innocent, begins his own investigation, working from a different starting point than that of the police.
I love Lisbeth's character -- she refuses to be a victim even though her life is on the line. She's a take-charge kind of person, apologizing to no one, and she is definitely an example of someone whose past has created her present. She's a heroine unlike any other you'll find in crime writing -- very flawed, dark, unafraid, with a sense of morality that she acts on even if it goes against the social grain. There are very few people in her life whom she trusts, and definitely has no love for official institutions. The book is fast paced, with never a dull moment, and is a solid sequel to Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I would definitely recommend that anyone thinking about this book start with Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, because there are a number of references in the 2nd book that you won't understand if you don't, and because once things start unraveling, you need to have the background of events from the first book, especially with the relationship between Lisbeth and Blomkvist.
Girl Who Played With Fire leaves some things hanging, which I'm sure will be picked up in the upcoming third book (hopefully, since it's the last one). I would recommend it to anyone who wants a good, solid mystery novel and who doesn't mind that the characters are all a bit flawed. Not a cozy mystery at all, so if that's what you're looking for, skip it. Otherwise, sit back and try to clear your day because you won't want to put this one down. Fans of Scandinavian crime novels will absolutely not be disappointed."
"This was a gripping read and ends on quite the cliff-hanger. How long till we get The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, I wonder? I enjoyed jumping back into this world and especially enjoyed spending more time with Lizbeth Salander. She is a wonderful character and makes this series. So complex, so unique, and so mysterious. We learn more about her, but there is much still to learn. (What about her twin, for instance? My guess is she is going to show up eventually. Otherwise, why create her? Or Fermat's theorem --- did she solve it?)
It is harsh, full of coincidences that I just was willing to accept, and engrossing. All that said, I have a couple of quibbles.
First of all the major one: the overly detailed tech material annoyed me (as it did in the first book, I admit). Here's a random example, "The hotel did not have broadband, but she had a built-in modem that she could hook up to her Panasonic mobile phone and with that setup she could send and receive mail. She typed a message to " (p 25) This sort of stuff is all through the book. I understand that some of the plot revolves around technology, but I just don't see the need for giving product names and the degree of detail given. Much of it is completely out-of-date (e.g. a Palm PDA). I suppose this is the way Larsson wrote it and so since he isn't around they are being true to his vision.
The other thing that tripped me up now and then was the sentence level writing. I couldn't figure out if it was Larsson or the translation. For example, "Gnawing on his dilemma." Didn't happen often, but occasionally.
Otherwise it is a very entertaining read. Perfect for the summer, I thought."
"More fully realized than Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I enjoyed having Lisbeth as the main character, she seems a more interesting character. It was a better read than the first one, however, the ending felt labored and artificial - the tone of the climax was different somehow than the rest of the book. I'm looking forward to the next one though."
To begin with, all the homo, bi, double-partner, and heterosexual talk was a bit much. Way beyond my comfort level.
To be fair, once I got about half-way through the book - after all the characters' sexual preferences were clearly established - it did become a page-turner as I raced to find out the ending.
If you like books with lots of character sketches, this might work for you. I was tempted to get out a notepad and sketch out all the characters and their relationships, as I kept getting the Swedish characters' names mixed up.
I have not read the prior book in this series: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Perhaps having done so would have helped me in the first half of the book, though others have said you can read this as a stand alone book.
No complaints about the writing style itself. I know this book is getting great reviews; I just didn't find anything in the book that I could personally relate to or particularly felt drawn to. The heroine Salander is as far from my personality as you can get, I think..."
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