Stieg Larsson and the mystery of the lost manuscript

Only a few weeks ago, an old friend of the late Stieg Larsson, the author of the best-selling Millennium trilogy, revealed to the world the exact nature of the author's last, unpublished book.

For months, there had been rumours regarding the very existence of the novel, the fourth book featuring the compelling double act of fearless investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the multi-tattooed, bisexual cybergoth Lisbeth Salander. The news that the unfinished novel is set in the remote Canadian outback of Sachs Harbour sent a wave of excitement through the entertainment industry. After all, with global sales of his books standing at somewhere between 35 million and 40 million copies, anything bearing Larsson's name is almost guaranteed to be publishing and box-office gold.

At the end of July, the Swedish author, who died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in November 2004 before the publication of any of his novels, became the first author to sell one million ebooks. The Swedish film version of Larsson's first novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which came out earlier this year in this country, has earned over $100 million worldwide, while the Hollywood remake, directed by David Fincher and set for release at the end of 2011, is View complete This is London article

Amazing how different people are.

I started reading 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and thought it was over-rated crap.

Like watching cardboard figures being moved around a tin box set.

The heroine had no redeeming features, in fact little to connect her with humanity.

After a few chapters I threw it away.

I am probably in a minority of one here.

But, it is amazing how different people are, isn't it?

My husband loves this series. Thought the first book was the best book he'd read in ages (I won't let him read mine:lol. I got bored after the stamps and gave up, but he told me to give it another try as it doesn't get going for a few chapters. I will (eventually).

I forced myself to read all three - I'd read the first two and found the rambling a bit frustrating, but bareable. The third seemed similar to water torture.

I vote on them being boring and overrated, but the cover of the first tempted me - always judge a book by the cover...

My friend recommended the Millennium Trilogy with the warning that you have to get past the first 50 pages so stick with it.

That advice was well-founded!! It was like reading the FT stocks and shares news but after that I got really hooked and love Lisbeth's anti-social heroine stance! How many of us would like to inflict a bit of torture on a lawyer (LOL)!

I'm seriously hoping the lost manuscript is published very soon!!

Frankie
Florence of Arabia

Contentment is greatly under-rated!