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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2007)

by Stieg Larsson

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Series: Millennium (3)

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If and when Lisbeth Salander recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.… (more)
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Finished this over Thanksgiving. It's probably worth 3.5 stars, but I'm giving it an extra half because it's actually the best in the trilogy. Larsson was starting to tone down the obnoxious level of detail, there were lots of plot threads which were all resolved and managed to twine together nicely without interfering, and there was actually a little bit of character development. Not least, it was actually gripping and hard to put down, which I couldn't say for the other two.

So. Finished. Yay! I also watched the first (Swedish) movie a few weeks ago, mostly because I saw too many screenshots of Lisbeth looking interesting. Not sure I recommend it; it's brutal. But it does improve on the book, mostly by making it less confusing. ( )
  caedocyon | Feb 23, 2024 |
(2009) Really good wrap up of the trilogy. The climax is the trial of Lisabeth Salancer which I couldn't stop reading. She manages to humiliate the prosecutor as well as get herself off all charges and released from being under state care. She also manages to get revenge against Niedermann, her brother who buried her, without having to resort to murder. KIRKUS REVIEWLisbeth Salander is in big trouble. Again.In the third installment of the late journalist Larsson's unpretty expos? of all that is rotten in Sweden (The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009, etc.), Lisbeth meets her father, who, we learned a couple of books back, is not just her sire but also her mortal enemy. Pater shares her sentiments, so much so that, at the beginning of this trilogy-closer¥though there's talk that a fourth Salander novel has been found on Larsson's laptop and is being squabbled over in lawyers' officesÂ¥he's apparently tried to exterminate the fruit of his loins. Being the resourceful lass that she is, Lisbeth rises from the grave to take her vengeance. Or, as longtime Larsson hero/alter ego Mikael Blomkvist tells us, she somehow managed to ?get back to the farm and swung an axe into Zalachenko's skull.? Adds Blomkvist, helpfully, ?She can be a moody bitch.? So she can, but that's the manner of avenging angels, and Lisbeth has lots of avenging to do. She also has lots of help. Blomkvist, a little mystified as always, runs on the sidelines along with girlfriend and publisher Erika Berger, while some favorite figures from the first installment, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, return to do their bit, among them fellow ?berhacker Plague, who still hasn't taken a shower nearly 1,000 pages later. There are some new or hitherto minor players along for the ride, including another Zalachenko creation, a German very-bad-guy named Niedermann, who covers his tracks pretty well. Writes Larsson, ?The problem with Niedermann was that he had no friends, no girlfriend and no listed cell phone, and he had never been in prison,? which makes life difficult even for a master tracker-downer such as LisbethÂ¥whom, unhappily, Niedermann is trying to do in as well. It's a delicious mayhem, where no man is quite good and no rich person has the slightest chance of entering the kingdom of heaven. Oh, there are lots of very bad bikers, too.Patented Larsson, meaning fast-paced enough to make those Jason Bourne films seem like Regency dramas.Pub Date: May 27th, 2010ISBN: 978-0-307-26999-7Page count: 576ppPublisher: KnopfReview Posted Online: Dec. 22nd, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1st, 2010
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
I've got to say that parts of the trial are a bit ridiculous, but hey, it makes it go faster. It was a nice conclusion. ( )
  tyk314 | Jan 22, 2024 |
I've got to say that parts of the trial are a bit ridiculous, but hey, it makes it go faster. It was a nice conclusion. ( )
  tyk314 | Jan 22, 2024 |
Blood fantastic. A great wrap up to the 3 books. ( )
  SteveMcI | Dec 25, 2023 |
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The tension builds relentlessly as backstories morph into intriguing subplots, threats to the very core of Swedish democracy are uncovered, men in positions of authority continue to abuse their power, and Salander and Blomkvist continue to fight for justice in their different, inimitable styles
added by 4leschats | editBookPage, Sukey Howard (Jun 1, 2010)
 
Larsson was a cerebral, high-minded activist and self-proclaimed feminist who happened to have a God-given gift for pulse-racing narrative. It’s this offbeat combination of attributes — imagine if John Grisham had prefaced his writing career not by practicing law in Mississippi but by heading up the Stockholm office of Amnesty International — that has made the series such a sui generis smash.
 
Still—bad writing is hardly a barrier to success in this genre. A good plot can run right over pages and pages of bad writing. And if there is a bad plot, or an incomprehensible one, great writing can always go around it. By these standards, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is a failure. No one should read this book for its plot or its prose.
added by Shortride | editSlate, Michael Newman (May 24, 2010)
 
The best features of Larsson's books are lively, intricately improbable plots. These, however, are set forth in a banal style that demonstrates no more than minimal skills when it comes to most of his characterizations and descriptive writing. It sometimes seems that Larsson's interest in novelistic detail begins and ends with the contents of a sandwich that one of his characters makes before dashing out on some potentially dangerous errand.
 
Cutting nimbly from one story line to another, Larsson does an expert job of pumping up suspense while credibly evoking the disparate worlds his characters inhabit, from the coldblooded bureaucracy of the Security Police to the underground slacker-hacker world of Salander and her friends, from the financially stressed newsroom Erika inherits to the intensive care unit of the hospital where Salander and Zalachenko are recuperating.
 

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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Larsson, Stiegprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bjørnson, ElisabethTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brynolfsson, ReineNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hernández, Pau JoanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Keeland, RegTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kuhn, WibkeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kyrö, MarjaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lexell, MartinTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ortega Román, Juan JoséTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Reichlin, SaulNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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If and when Lisbeth Salander recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.

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