The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo...

[Bekah]

I read it - enjoyed it quite a lot (but I think the hype has  
overblown it - it wasn't THAT good).   And I think the US publishers  
changed the title because "Men Who Hate Women" wasn't going to sell  
that well here (they were probably right about that).   They pull  
this title changing thing every once in awhile.

Oh I do envy you ordering the UK second.  It's due out here in July  
according to Amazon.

The author,  Stieg Larsson,  wrote these books in his spare time and  
hid them away,  never even tried to publish.   Then when he died of a  
massive heart attack (quite young) they were found and published.   
But the publishing of the series (3 books,  I believe) is going one  
book at a time everywhere and with a delayed release in the US.

  I'm not a movie person but the trailers look good:

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/full-theatrical-trailer-for-nordic- 
thriller-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/
or
http://tinyurl.com/76wf2a

Bekah



On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Brock Vond wrote:

> I've been very busy so if this was already discussed... <apologies>
>
> Been meaning to ask what p-listers thought of The Girl with The Dragon
> Tattoo (Swedish Title: Men That (Who?) Hate Women)...
>
> Could there be any more of a difference in title quality in all of
> translation...
>
> I liked the 1st one so much, mainly because unlike its not Deep- 
> Lit... Just
> (in my opinion) a great plot...
>
> Anyway.. I liked the first one so much that I ordered the UK  
> version of The
> Girl Who Played with Fire because I didn't want to wait.   
> (Irresponsible)
>
> Anyone seen the Movie Trailers for the Swedish film?  I think they  
> nailed
> the Journalist Guy... He's exactly how I pictured Blomkvist, but  
> the chick
> is not at all what I envisioned for Salander.
>
> B
>
>
> On 1/16/09 8:07 PM, "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> "She was tanned in a nice way, her dress blue, and her eyes were blue
>> and glittering, and she was only a few years younger than my own
>> mother."
>>
>> -  Out Stealing Horses by Per Pettersen -
>> pretty good but the man is no Pynchon or Borges - shoot,  - not even
>> Stieg Larsson  (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo).
>>
>> Bekah
>> this was the book closest to me at the moment
>>
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Daniel Julius wrote:
>>
>>> "These things occurred in the eighty-ninth year of the Hegira."
>>>
>>> - "Et Cetera" in Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dave Monroe
>>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
>>> 2. Turn to page 56.
>>> 3. Find the fifth sentence.
>>> 4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your
>>> LiveJournal.
>>> 5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most
>>> intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
>>
>
>