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The Girl in the Spider's Web: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Series
David Lagercrantz
3.57 AVERAGE
1.88k reviews for:
The Girl in the Spider's Web: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Series
David Lagercrantz
3.57 AVERAGE
It has been years since I read and loved the original trilogy, so forgive me that I didn't find Lagercrantz voice all that bad. With years in-between reading, I was able to pick this book up and I really enjoyed the flow and writing just as much as I did the original books. The story itself was good: engaging, slightly twisted.. but harder for me to follow... or perhaps just a little boring to me, so I would skim over the technical and mathematical mumbo jumbo. I also had a hard time remember the dozens of characters (is he bad or good, again??) But I like Lisabeth and while she wasn't as prominent in this novel, we get a lot of backstory on her that I think can lead to a really kickass book #5.
I am a fan of The Millenium series, and I've read a lot about the series author the late [a:Stieg Larsson|706255|Stieg Larsson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1246466225p2/706255.jpg]. I picked-up and started this book with trepidation. It was made more difficult with it being about 100-pages longer than an original The Millenium series book.
Also, the translators have changed. Reg Keeland was the translator for the first three (3) books of the series. George Goulding is the translator for this book. Keeland's translation was more American. While Goulding's is more English. Goulding's word choices appear a bit awkward at times. For example, The darknet is the dark undergrowth of the internet. Vulgarities involving fornication are also not artfully handled.
Writing is generally good. Action scenes and dialog are about the same quality. In places, it was a bit saccharine. Although that might have been the translation. Lagercrantz is a skillful writer. If I have a serious complaint, its that he relies on long passages of expository writing and inner-dialog to move the story along. I don't recall either of those techniques being used to the same extent in Larsson's writing.
The characters are recognizable, but they do not quiet ring true. Salandar is the most faithfully rendered. While I think Blomkvist suffers the most. I suspect this is because Blomkvist was Larsson shamelessly written into his stories. There are also a large number of disposable characters-- a lot more than in the typical Millenium book. A rotating POV is used with them. While its well handled technically, the large number of changing POVs badly broke-up the story's flow. Frankly, the fewer Swedes the merrier is my thought.
Plotting is a mashup of old Millennium series and the new. I thought there were too many changes. The author introduces new sub-plots and reshapes the old. I found a large number of the new subplots to be rubbish. Some were just recycled TV tropes. The re-spins of the original sub-plots were little better.
Cryptography, surveillance and computer security were featured in the story. I also found the description of the tech used to be peculiar in places. It was always very detailed, but sometimes not quiet correct. For example, Larsson never augured into the details of Salandar's hacking. He passed it off as a product of The FM Principal. Lagercrantz lists particular techniques used in Salander's hacking; the words were correct, but their usage was always not. If you assume a penetration is like a recipe for making pancakes; the book's description would have you frying the flour in the pan prior to mixing the eggs and milk into a batter.
Its different. Lagercrantz is not Larsson. Larsson's plots tended to deal with social injustice in Sweden's socialist society. When he used technology, it was Deus ex machina all over again. Lagercrantz has taken series into the techno-thriller genre with a healthy dose of techno-infotainment. Meanwhile, he has spent a lot of words renovating the Millennium series for the second decade of the new millennium. Frankly, I did not appreicate the effort.
I likely won't be reading the next in the series [b:The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye|32599492|The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium #5)|David Lagercrantz|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1491924236s/32599492.jpg|53178961].
Also, the translators have changed. Reg Keeland was the translator for the first three (3) books of the series. George Goulding is the translator for this book. Keeland's translation was more American. While Goulding's is more English. Goulding's word choices appear a bit awkward at times. For example, The darknet is the dark undergrowth of the internet. Vulgarities involving fornication are also not artfully handled.
Writing is generally good. Action scenes and dialog are about the same quality. In places, it was a bit saccharine. Although that might have been the translation. Lagercrantz is a skillful writer. If I have a serious complaint, its that he relies on long passages of expository writing and inner-dialog to move the story along. I don't recall either of those techniques being used to the same extent in Larsson's writing.
The characters are recognizable, but they do not quiet ring true. Salandar is the most faithfully rendered. While I think Blomkvist suffers the most. I suspect this is because Blomkvist was Larsson shamelessly written into his stories. There are also a large number of disposable characters-- a lot more than in the typical Millenium book. A rotating POV is used with them. While its well handled technically, the large number of changing POVs badly broke-up the story's flow. Frankly, the fewer Swedes the merrier is my thought.
Plotting is a mashup of old Millennium series and the new. I thought there were too many changes. The author introduces new sub-plots and reshapes the old. I found a large number of the new subplots to be rubbish. Some were just recycled TV tropes. The re-spins of the original sub-plots were little better.
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I thought the connection between Salander and a Marvel Comics character to be wretched.Cryptography, surveillance and computer security were featured in the story. I also found the description of the tech used to be peculiar in places. It was always very detailed, but sometimes not quiet correct. For example, Larsson never augured into the details of Salandar's hacking. He passed it off as a product of The FM Principal. Lagercrantz lists particular techniques used in Salander's hacking; the words were correct, but their usage was always not. If you assume a penetration is like a recipe for making pancakes; the book's description would have you frying the flour in the pan prior to mixing the eggs and milk into a batter.
Its different. Lagercrantz is not Larsson. Larsson's plots tended to deal with social injustice in Sweden's socialist society. When he used technology, it was Deus ex machina all over again. Lagercrantz has taken series into the techno-thriller genre with a healthy dose of techno-infotainment. Meanwhile, he has spent a lot of words renovating the Millennium series for the second decade of the new millennium. Frankly, I did not appreicate the effort.
I likely won't be reading the next in the series [b:The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye|32599492|The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium #5)|David Lagercrantz|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1491924236s/32599492.jpg|53178961].
Not the Lisbeth from the first three books. But a good easy read with a good thriller style plot.
to be continued
... again? this was a pretty good continuation of the story. several characters that were hard to keep straight, but this was a pretty good mystery.
and could be another story to come?? looking forward to it.
... again? this was a pretty good continuation of the story. several characters that were hard to keep straight, but this was a pretty good mystery.
and could be another story to come?? looking forward to it.
A worthy follow up to the trilogy -- felt quite organic to the original story. Characters remained interesting, writing was good.
A really good addition to the Millenium trilogy - David Lagercrantz has done a very good job of building on the three previous books in the series by Stieg Larsson. Salander and Blomqvist come across as very much in the same mold as before.
The plot starts slowly and builds to a dramatic crescendo. The story telling was effective and avoided going into too much gory detail of some of the events without losing any effect on the overall narrative.
For me, the main down side was that the ending seemed rushed and less plausible than the build up. Hopefully, the next book in the series will be able to have a better told ending.
The plot starts slowly and builds to a dramatic crescendo. The story telling was effective and avoided going into too much gory detail of some of the events without losing any effect on the overall narrative.
For me, the main down side was that the ending seemed rushed and less plausible than the build up. Hopefully, the next book in the series will be able to have a better told ending.
Excellent. He has captured Stieg Larsson's characters brilliantly. Not going to give away anything here other than to say, read it. (I do have one or two quibbles with the plot but....)
A continuation of the Stieg Larrson's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo mystery series. After Larrson's death, the story of Lisbeth Salander continues in this great story. Interestingly the story includes an autistic child whom Salander makes a connection with in order to solve the mystery of their father's murder.
I put this book on hold at my library as soon as I completed the last of the Stieg Larsson The Girl books. To be honest I was both intrigued and a bit excited about the possibility of another Lisbeth Salander book by a different author. I first wondered if such a thing had happened before, and was reminded of the unfinished Jane Austen novel finished by another author. I started to read that, but didn't finish and, truth be known I remember neither the title or author. I am sure there were other more successful attempt. I am reminded of the hundreds of Sherlock Holmes stories floating about more or less successfully.
I must say that Mr. Lagercrantz created an excellent mystery involving the main characters from the Larsson trilogy, as well as Lisbeth's fraternal twin sister, who, it seems, inherited all the cunning evil of papa Zalichinco. The story involves international cyber crime, for lack of a better title, the murder of a computer genius and near execution of his autistic son to cover the crime. Lizbeth hacks NSA, which raises quite a ruckus and ultimately decrypts a pilfered file which lays out the details of the 'spiders' web.
All in all, a very compelling read. I can recommend it to anyone who liked The Girl series.
I must say that Mr. Lagercrantz created an excellent mystery involving the main characters from the Larsson trilogy, as well as Lisbeth's fraternal twin sister, who, it seems, inherited all the cunning evil of papa Zalichinco. The story involves international cyber crime, for lack of a better title, the murder of a computer genius and near execution of his autistic son to cover the crime. Lizbeth hacks NSA, which raises quite a ruckus and ultimately decrypts a pilfered file which lays out the details of the 'spiders' web.
All in all, a very compelling read. I can recommend it to anyone who liked The Girl series.