Anyone else enthralled with these books? I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on Saturday and rushed to the store on Sunday to pick up The Girl Who Played with Fire. I'm only a few chapters in and I'm hooked again!

I loved it, up all night reading it a few weekends ago. I needed to take a little break after the ending (whew!) and now I'm ready to dig into The Girl That Played with Fire. My co-worker lent me all 3.

I read and loved all three this summer. They are not really easy, fun books (lots of dark stuff), but well-written and well-translated (which can be a big issue) and gripping stuff. Lisbeth is a unique and interesting character.

I enjoyed the book, but didn't love it. Haven't read any of the others yet, but I'm sure I will eventually.

Some of my co-workers were reading them so I thought that I would join in. Although it's not my usual genre, I really couldn't put them down. I was always rooting for Lisbeth and revenge was sweet. To this day, every time I think about her, I feel a pain in my chest just thinking about that abuse scene. Each book was more violent than the prior one, though, and that is difficult but it's kind of like watching a train wreck. You can't bear to watch it but you can't tear yourself away from it either.

The books do have that Pillar quality in that the heroine's fortune is up and down constantly. Just when you think Lisbeth is going to get over on someone, she gets stomped down and vice versa. She's not a character that I could personally identify with but one that I could admire.

It's too bad that Larsson passed on before writing the next book because there does look like there was a premise for it (the doctor's inquiring about the meaning of the dragon tattoo), but the 3rd book left enough closure that you didn't feel that the story was unfinished.

I have read the first two books in the series and enjoyed them even though I didn't get completely hooked until about page 200 in both books. They started out very slow and only after the crimes are committed and the main characters are dragged into the drama do the books pick up. I was really rooting for Lisbeth and want her to be able to love. I have a copy of Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest and will begin reading it this week. These books are so intense that I need a break in between each.

As far as a fourth book, there is a draft of it that Larsson left behind on his computer. There is some dispute over who owns the rights, but hopefully once that detail is settled it will be published.

The Swedish movie version is still playing around at the art theaters and I know that they are working on a remake American one, but has anyone seen the Swedish one and is it worthy? You know, true to the story, that kind of thing.

I heard about them and still wasn't all that interested until a friend lent me the first 2 books. I tore threw 'em. The political/business stuff kinda made my eyes glaze over, but I just loved the relationship between Mikhael and Lisbeth. I really enjoyed all 3...at the time I said that book 2 was my favorite, but now I'd say books 2 AND 3.

Yes, they're dark and gritty, but oh-so-good. I'm sad Stieg Larsson died...he apparently planned this to be a 7 (or 10?!?) book series! Woe!

A German friend said she has seen movies #1 and #2 and they were really good, but she's not read the books. She was told, though, that the movies follow the books pretty closely.

I admit to being a bit confused ~ okay, very confused! ~ about all the different Vangers in Book 1. I needed a chart! I finally let go of trying to figure each one out and went with the suspicion it would make sense at some point, and it did.

It's been years since I read a really good murder mystery with political intrigue thrown in. I read a lot of Ludlum in my late 20s and just loved his books. I still remember reading one of his books over winter break but then not finishing it in time before classes started up again, so was in the back of Civil Rights and Procedure with the book hidden under the desk. Good thing I knew the material and the professor (I was an upper-level student taking a first-year course) or my name would have been mud! The current crop of authors in the thriller/ political intrigue genre (Baldacci, Grisham, et al) just never quite held my interest like Ludlum and now, BAM! I'm hooked by Larsson. I blew through book #2 *didn't see the twist in that one coming!* and have #3 in my grubby little hands and I'm off right now to dig in.

I found this bit about the American re-make of the movie.


Really? Seven or ten books? Dang.

Me too. I was constantly referring to the genealogy chart at the front of the book. After I read books 2 and 3 I'm going to rent the movies. Too bad he passed away before writing more!

A few colleagues at work have also commented how close the Swedish movies have been to the books. Given the size of the books, there is no doubt that some segments have been left out of the movie version, but the overall feel of the books has been captured. The actress who plays Lisbeth -- Noomi Rapace -- is supposedly very good.

I am currently reading this book and am almost done. I LOVE it. Has anyone else read it and want to discuss it? I should finish in the next day or two and would love to talk about it.

I read it a while ago (2 years?) and saw the US move version in December. I'll happily discuss it some, but I don't recall all the details. I really liked all three books in the Millennium Trilogy, even though they were very violent and disturbing.

These books were an amazing ride! The recently released American movie version was followed the book extremely closely.

I would love to discuss these books. I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo earlier this month. I went to the library to put the second on hold only to find that I am number 38! I may have to break down and by the paperback.