Showing posts with label psychological mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychological mystery. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Two Suspense Books!
I just finished 2 suspense/mystery books, not my usual genre, but they were both good. To add to the pile, we also watched both versions of Cape Fear in the last week! Maybe it is the heat that is getting to us. We need good diversions!
I finished the trilogy with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. It ended up being my least favorite of the three. It was a very good story, but way too "wordy"...it seemed to me that the story could have been told in a 1/3 of the book size. In this story Lizabeth Salander does not play as prominent role as she did in the first two books, although, of course, the story centers around her. The story was basically everyone trying to figure out how the government maintained such a large cover-up for so many years. That is the incredibly simple version of my summary of the book!
We watched the movie Shutter Island recently and I decided that I wanted to read the book to see if there was more to it. Oddly enough, this is one of those very rare times that the movie was better than the book. The book was ok and I kept trying to figure out if I would have liked the book better if I had not seen the movie, but I don't think so. The story is of a Federal Marshall who goes to help find an inmate that has gone missing on Shutter Island. The island is home to a prison for the criminally insane. It is a really good story that has some good twists to it in the end. If you are into psychology, etc. see the movie! I guarantee you will enjoy it! The book? Again, not as good as the movie.
Monday, April 12, 2010
The Girl Who Played With Fire
If you have read The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson, RUN, don't walk, but RUN, to get The Girl Who Played With Fire!!! And if you haven't read The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo, what are you waiting for??? Get you to the nearest library, bookstore, reader friend, etc. and read it!!! Because after you read it, you must then read The Girl Who Played With Fire!! It is that good!
Can you tell that I really liked this book? It is a great psychological mystery. I loved the way the author developed the characters and the story. It kept me wanting to read more and more later and later into the night!
The same main characters are present as main characters in both books. Mikael Blomkvist company Millenium is planning to publish a book exposing sex trafficking in Sweden. His magazine is going to run an article about it the same time the book comes out. Before that happens, the two authors of the book are murdered. The same evening, Lisbeth Salander's guardian is murdered. Lisbeth is connected by evidence to all the murders and she goes underground. Mikael is trying to solve the murders and to find Lisbeth. To do both, Mikael and Lisbeth both need to dig into Lisbeth's past.
Great book!!!
The third of this trilogy is now out called The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. It is a continuation of the first two books.
From the website http://www.stieglarsson.com/
Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was a Swedish writer and journalist.
Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004 he finished three detective novels in his trilogy "The Millenium-series" which were published posthumously; "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". Altogether, his trilogy has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide (summer of 2009), and he was the second bestselling author in the world 2008.
STIEG LARSSON, 1954-2004Before his career as a writer, Stieg Larsson was mostly known for his struggle against racism and right-wing extremism. Starting in the late 1970's, he combined his work as a graphic designer with holding lectures on right-wing extremism for the Scotland Yard. During the following years he became an expert on the subject and has held many lectures as well as written many novels on the subject. In 1995, when 8 persons were killed by neo-Nazis I Sweden, he was the main force behind the founding of the Expo-foundation, a group intended on exposing neo-Nazi activity in Sweden. From 1999 and on, he was appointed chief editor of the magazine Expo.
During the last 15 years of his life, he and his life companion Eva Gabrielsson lived under constant threat from right-wing violence.
Can you tell that I really liked this book? It is a great psychological mystery. I loved the way the author developed the characters and the story. It kept me wanting to read more and more later and later into the night!
The same main characters are present as main characters in both books. Mikael Blomkvist company Millenium is planning to publish a book exposing sex trafficking in Sweden. His magazine is going to run an article about it the same time the book comes out. Before that happens, the two authors of the book are murdered. The same evening, Lisbeth Salander's guardian is murdered. Lisbeth is connected by evidence to all the murders and she goes underground. Mikael is trying to solve the murders and to find Lisbeth. To do both, Mikael and Lisbeth both need to dig into Lisbeth's past.
Great book!!!
The third of this trilogy is now out called The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. It is a continuation of the first two books.
Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004 he finished three detective novels in his trilogy "The Millenium-series" which were published posthumously; "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". Altogether, his trilogy has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide (summer of 2009), and he was the second bestselling author in the world 2008.
STIEG LARSSON, 1954-2004
During the last 15 years of his life, he and his life companion Eva Gabrielsson lived under constant threat from right-wing violence.
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