On the last two shows I have worked on, cast have been reading Stieg Larsson's books. This is the first in the trilogy; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It takes a bit for me to get into it, but once I do, I can't put it down. With a few breaks to rest my eyes, and check my emails and FaceBook, I finish it in a day. Now I want the second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire.
Someone in the house is going to Costco today so I ask her to see if they have it there. She returns a few hours later holding the book high.
I am now 100 pages into it and it moves faster than the first book and is excellent.
Last night, shortly after finishing the first book, I checked to see if the movie was still in the theaters. It's not so I downloaded it. It had terrible subtitles. Even when the dialogue was in English, they still put up subtitles and got it wrong. But it was good enough to make out what was being said. So much of what was in the book was left out of the movie. If the author was still alive, I don't think he'd have been too happy. I wouldn't have been. So for this reason, I recommend you watch the movie before reading the book. But once you've watched it, don't think you don't need to read it because you do. It's a gripping story; far more than in the movie.
Actually, come to think of it, the movie will give away the ending so perhaps you should read the book and skip the movie.
I've been meaning to read the series. I really disliked the film. It was as if it was a low rent Dan Brown novel. I am inspired by your posting to seek out the novels. Now to be diligent with making time for it :)
ReplyDeleteJust a thought. You might post these blogspot postings to your facebook wall as notes, and then FB becomes the hub for your social interaction. It's sort of a consolidation of Sandra ;)
Hi Michael!! Great to hear from you and that you read my blog!
ReplyDeleteI used to post to FB as Notes but I rather like having the traffic on here and then I can keep track of it.
But thanks for the suggestion. Hope you are well!