Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Girl in the Spider's Web |
| author | David Lagercrantz |
| ISBN-10 | 0-857-05532-1 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-857-05532-3 |
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| date | 2018-Jan-04 |
This is a continuation of Stieg Larsson's famous Millennium Series. But can another author continue the series and do it justice? Well, yes, Lagercrantz does quite a good job. He manages to keep the characteristics of the main players and builds on the original story. He also opens the field for more to come and rather cleverly reveals some more things about Lisbeth Salanders past. In some respects, this book is even better than the original series: it does away with much of the unnecessary stuff and stays much more focussed on the story it wants to tell. Thanks to this, the story it tells fits within one book. But it clearly has more the feel of a commercially engineered book than the previous ones. This is not necessarily bad, but makes it more alike books by other successful authors. If you liked the characters in the original books, give it a try, they stay mostly the same. If the original books were too slow-moving for your taste, you surely will like this one better.
Mikael Blomkvist has not published anything too interesting in a while. Not only is Millennium magazine in a financially tight spot again, but also Mikael himself is under heavy criticism for not having had any good articles in a long time. But this all changes quite suddenly, when a top Swedish researcher is murdered. As it happens, a break in into a highly guarded computer system Lisbeth Salander recently performed reveals some information which might be connected to this murder, even though Lisbeth was looking for other information.
