Here it comes again! The final volume of Stieg Larsson's trilogy Millenium is titled Castles in the Sky (if I understood well, no yet available in English...). Could not sleep last saturday until I finished the final 200 pages (yes it was a long night!). The tension and excitement arising at the end of the second volume are continuing THROUGHOUT the final volume, so you can imagine how it is. The style of Stieg Larsson continue to impress as it did in the two first volumes. Light, understandable, intense, detailed, smooth... well, this "all-in-one uncomplex style" is made for creating excitement and suspens, intensity and interest.
The story continues with the characters now familiar from the previous volumes. The intensity of the descriptions makes the reader fully intrigued and excited. The story about a secret organisation within the Swedish Security Service following no rules, having no external connection and functioning on its own... Well a first price intrigue which brings us to higher level. James Bond can just go back to the men's lockerroom (as we say in French!), this is for real (or isn't it?). You live with the characters, you feel for them - their pain, love, sadness.
Well, it includes as well really well-developped and integrated a sex-story, a stalker-story, a court story in parallel with the main "Salander's story". Lots of pieces of the puzzles are finding (finally) their place in this final volume. (and the reader is really thankful about it!)
I regret that this final volume has so long chapters. The two first volumes were are bit more handy with shorter chapters, which made the reading a bit smoother (especially when it comes to put the book on the side in the evening). Here it was difficult to finish a whole chapter at once sometimes (well, yes! I am tired sometimes and need some rest ; ) but also difficult to leave the book and story on suspens...
Well, where did all this come from? Really, a masterpiece in the intrigue and excitement, in the field of crime writing. A bit sad that the trilogy is ending (well as all trilogies, the end might be a bit "boring" in comparison to the rest of the intense writing throughtout the story. But, hey! there' got to be an end, or? ; ) So for this third and final volume of Stieg Larsson's trilogy, I am allocating a strong 9/10 and continue to HIGHLY RECOMMEND the three books!
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Hello Karima---It was around 2:30 in the morning when I finished The Girl Who Played With Fire. I think this is a common experience of those who read any book in the Millenium series ( staying up very late because the book is as bitter/sweet and twice as addictive as heoin). ----I live in the middle of the USA in Nebraska, so the second book is not even available in English here until July 2009, but in the spirit of Kalle Bloomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, I went looking and did not give up, especially when I heard of a UK version out there and , "Ohhhh my!" I found one for sale on Ebay from a woman who picked up a copy in the UK and brought it to America.-------Of course now I'm on the hunt again for Castles in the Sky. In fact the empty sinking feeling I had as I read the last word, I don't know, it might be the same feeling Kalle Bloomkvist had when Lisbeth disappeared from his life, the feeling that he had to find her. It was 2:30 and I went not to bed but to the computer and sat in the dark with nothing but the light from the monitor to light the keyboard as I typed in my search on Google. I knew there was a third book, but didn't even know it's title, but I eventually found that and then I did a search on the title and came to your website.---It was like coming up for air, (was I holding my breath all that time?) "there is another book out there and Karima Makrof has read it and reviewed it. Oh man, I have to talk to this woman!"-----In case you might think I'm a nut case and are having second thoughts about publishing your website, let me assure you, I am. "Oh, shit, I wasn't supposed to say that. Oh well honesty is best policy to use on siomeone you are about to beg for an audience.---I'm a self published author myself, two books, Hippie Highways and Mother's Milk (a novel about the 1970's Vietnam era on the west coast, drugs, sex, rock and roll and anti-war sentiments). the second book is a small book of short stories about my Nebraska sense of place.------Can you tell me your nationality and what language version you have read the third book in? anything about you you want to include and any thoughts or feelings you have about the Millenium Series and Stieg Larrson, the man himself? If you are curious about my profile, I'm on My Space under Jon Brt I believe and my email address is jb31318@alltel.net ----The bottom line, I am on the hunt once again for an English translation of book three or any rumors of such a book or any information to get me closer to my goal. Respectfully. Jon Brt
sorry Karima about all the questions I asked in my last comment, that I found answers to in your profile. I guess after finishing book two I went into immediate withdrawl and hit the street screaming, "Helllp, I need a fix, anything, I need a fix!" Jon Brt
Hi there!
Sorry for answering so late to your post. I did not receive any mail indicating a comment had been posted on my blog and as a result I did not check either : (
Bad girl!
Thanks for your comments!
I did read the Millenium serie in original Swedish. I try to read in the original version as sometimes the translations are a bit strange (for example the Vargas are really boring to read in English when they are breath-taking in French!)
Glad you enjoy my blog!
//K
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