Sep 01, Jenny Reading Envy rated it did not like it Shelves: reviewcopy , audiobook , did-not-finish. I loved the character of Lisbeth Salander and thought if it was done well, it might be worth it. You don't encounter many characters like her. Unfortunately, I was supremely disappointed, so much so that I can't face going back to the book after making it halfway through the au Despite concerns over whether Stieg Larsson's wishes were being honored by the publication of this book based on reading "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me , I decided to go ahead and try it.
Unfortunately, I was supremely disappointed, so much so that I can't face going back to the book after making it halfway through the audio. First of all, these are not the same characters of Lisbeth and Mikael that I know from the trilogy.
Lisbeth seems to have reverted to one of two modes - sloppy hacker or hungover boxer - no depth, no motivation, nothing interesting. It could be that we reached the end of her story in the trilogy. Mikael is unmotivated too, can't stand to be at work and arriving late to the scene of an important crime that finally happens midway through the book. The author spends TOO much time describing things that don't matter - an hour I listened to the audio on the current status of Millennium, the news publication that Mikael has worked on; the storms, frequent descriptions; and Mikael's white fur coat.
He hasn't bothered to explore the characters themselves. He touches on the subjects of autism and the singularity in halfhearted ways that the characters and the reader end up feeling less than inspired. And really? Artificial intelligence? It isn't written about intelligently enough to feel like high stakes.
This is set in the present day. If I wanted a thrilling read about AI and the singularity I would look for it in science fiction, where it is handled with interesting variations and frightening possibilities, NOT in a Swedish crime novel. It makes no sense. I would be happy if someone came along who convinced me that this book turned a huge corner and I should have kept reading Sep 26, Elyse Walters rated it really liked it. The Millennium Series Book 5 came out this month I started and stopped a couple of times Hacker girl, Lisbeth, inscrutable, who is scheming follows her own timetable.
She is chasing a web of spies, cyber criminals, and governments around the world. Blomkvist happens to be doing the same thing - and o The Millennium Series Book 5 came out this month It was a joy to be back in Lisbeth-land!!! Aug 04, Skip rated it really liked it Shelves: thriller , foreign-translated , goodreads-netgalley-giveaway.
He has a different writing style, but Lisbeth Salander remains one of the most innovative and iconic characters in modern fiction: an antisocial goth female hacker, fighting with all her substantial might against injustice, both perceived or actual. The novel gets off to a rather slow start, with a Swedish professor abandoning his quest for self Just as true Deadheads do not appreciate Trey Anastasio playing Jerry Garcia's lead guitar or singing his songs, David Lagercrantz is not Stieg Larsson.
The novel gets off to a rather slow start, with a Swedish professor abandoning his quest for self learning artificial intelligence to take custody of his autistic son, August.
All is not well at Millenium magazine and Mikael Blomkvist is under attack from many sides. The professor contacts Blomkvist as he is advised of threats to his life, setting off a series of escalating events, forcing Lisbeth to intervene with her usual forceful assistance.
She rescues August and somehow manages to connect with him, continuing the breakthrough made by his father. There is substantial action in the second half of the novel, as matters escalate and an old adversary re-emerges from the darkness. More please. Since it has not arrived yet, it did not affect this review. View all 18 comments. May 11, Hayat rated it it was ok Shelves: meh , mystery-thriller , family-relationships , disappointed.
Update: read in August but decided to update in January I read the The Millennium Trilogy in anticipation of The Girl in the Spider's Web and as soon as it was out I began reading it with a lot of excitement and a little apprehension, just in case the new author doesn't live up to or come close to the writing talents of Stieg Larsson.
The plot was slow and tedious, Update: read in August but decided to update in January I read the The Millennium Trilogy in anticipation of The Girl in the Spider's Web and as soon as it was out I began reading it with a lot of excitement and a little apprehension, just in case the new author doesn't live up to or come close to the writing talents of Stieg Larsson. The plot was slow and tedious, Lisbeth Salander was absent from a good portion of the book and when she turned up her character was different and not as well thought out or intriguing.
Lisbeth is my favourite character, the driving force of the series and the reason I love the trilogy so much but in The Girl in the Spider's Web she lost that unique element that made her Lisbeth Salander. Her narrative was different, her actions didn't make sense and there were lots of little things that didn't add up about her reactions. She was a caricature of her former self.
I found myself Skimming due to boredom until things picked up near the end but by then I was ready for it to end.
I actually got the audiobook too but nothing changed. I'm a huge fan of The Millennium Trilogy and I've read it several times but this book didn't feel like a continuation of Stieg Larsson's trilogy.
Everything was out of sync. I guess this shows that you can't rope in another writer to continue a deceased authors work. You can't replicate the original authors style, experience, knowledge and all the complexities that went into developing and writing The Millennium Trilogy.
I'll probably reread this book sometime in the future just to see if my opinion of it changes but I doubt it will. Still, I'm willing to give it a second chance just to be fair to David Lagercrantz and in appreciation of the effort it took to write The Girl in the Spider's Web. I just found out my favourite series The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larssonis is being continued by a new author!!! I'm so happy and so bloody scared it is all going to go wrong!
I both hate and love this!! Oh who am I kidding! September is too faraway. View all 15 comments. I think it is such a huge undertaking to jump into a beloved series and attempt to duplicate the author's voice. While there are definitely some flaws it is a decent thriller and not some horrible attempt at fan fiction.
I enjoyed revisiting Blomkvist and Salander's world although the first half of the book really suffers by bouncing around between way too many characters. However, i 3. However, it's easy to develop an emotional attachment to one of the new characters, an autistic child, and it's really hard not to get caught up in the story. I thought for the most part the author captured the general spirit of the series but I never felt like I was getting the full Blomkvist or Salander.
It felt like Lisbeth lite so to speak, but I guess that is more preferably than the author going too far and turning her into some awful caricature. I have mixed feelings about the last few pages of the book, but overall I was satisfied with the author's attempt at continuing the series and will eventually check out the next book. View all 8 comments. Aug 27, Shannelle Lamour : rated it did not like it.
I'm sorry but no I was super excited to read this to the point that I may have built it up in my head, and when it failed to deliver it made it that much more dissapointing. Lisbeths character in the first three books was so fluid that she became such a believable person with all her quirks, silence, and way of behaving that were always so consistent.
It at times made for a frustrating I'm sorry but no It at times made for a frustrating read as I was constantly comparing the trilogy against this fourth book and always coming to the conclusion that its nothing like the first three.
I loved Steig's writing style. His plot progression was great. I had to put this book down repeatedly due to being overwhelmed with information packed in a few sentences that would have by Steig been strategically placed through a few pages. It took me countless tries to finish this book. No offense to David, but maybe I should of left the story finished at book three.
It felt like characters personalities were changed to adapt this new author. Some may argue that's to be expected considering Steig and David are two different people and will think different ways, but when trying to carry on a already stellar trilogy, I would have thought that enough research would have gone into it for Lisbeth and Blomkvist to be the same people they were throughout the first three books.
Like I said, disappointing. View all 11 comments. Nov 28, Lyn rated it liked it. Stieg Larrson is dead, alas. David Lagercrantz was granted a blessing and a curse. A blessing in the sense that he gets to write another Lisbeth and Mikael novel, a series with a worldwide following that will certainly sell and most definitely get a lot of attention.
A curse because he takes the stage after a phenomenal opening act, a lamentable position. Readers who di Stieg Larrson is dead, alas. Readers who dislike the book, and some will be relentlessly critical, will blame this new author. For the most part, he succeeds admirably. View all 10 comments. Jan 08, April rated it really liked it. Surprisingly not bad with a new author continuing the series.
View 2 comments. View 1 comment. May 11, Brenda rated it liked it. I initially was going to give this 4 stars, but decided 3 more accurately represented my feelings. I found the first third of the book tedious and I almost gave up. Like all newspapers, Millenium is in trouble and purchased by a larger company. Mikael Blomkvist is unhappy and unmotivated. There were a lot of new characters introduced, and a refresher list of previous characters was provided in the beginning.
The agencies and groups involved tended to get tangled, and it was difficult to remember I initially was going to give this 4 stars, but decided 3 more accurately represented my feelings. The agencies and groups involved tended to get tangled, and it was difficult to remember who worked for who. Eventually, the story got interesting because Lisbeth Salander became more prominent.
A weird web of intrigue involving police, the NSA, Swedish Intelligence, and assorted hackers was revealed along with the motivations of individuals involved. This was an acceptable effort by David Lagercrantz, but I would have liked more Salander right from the beginning. Mar 07, James rated it liked it Shelves: 1-fiction , 3-multi-book-series. While the book carries on with great characters and a similar style, it wasn't as satisfying as the originals.
Story As readers come to know of this series of books, the plots are incredibly complex, intense and twisty. From a b 3 stars to David Lagercrantz 's The Girl in the Spider's Web , the fourth book in the "Millenium" thriller series, written by a new author given the original, Steig Larsson, passed away several years ago. From a basic point of view, several hackers have started infiltrating the NSA after learning about a conspiracy between different groups to buy and sell secrets about each other's companies.
The government is involved, trying to keep it running and trying to stop it, as well as several public companies involved in building new technology that ultimately will be the destruction of mankind should machines be able to build machines and think as sentient beings Pushing that all to the side, the plot is about a professor who takes back his autistic son from his ex-wife and her new husband who is abusing the young boy.
When some members of the conspiracy group ultimately realize that the professor is the technologist who has the AI programs they are all after, and he's potentially going to rat out the truth of what's been happening to Blomkvist, someone orders a hit and the professor is killed minutes before telling his story.
His young son witnesses the execution and the hunt begins. Lisbeth is involved in the hacking group and works through a secret computer program to help Blomkvist save the boy and ends up realizing she's very close to the person at the head of the conspiracy. As they sort through the puzzle, family ties come back to haunt each of them and the struggle to keep the balance of the war just slightly in their own favor pushes forward.
Strengths 1. Lisbeth and Blomkvist are as good as ever. They jump off the pages and yearn to be loved and hated at the same time. They annoy you, but you know they are good people. It stays strong and keeps you guessing throughout the whole story. Suggestions The summary of the story is strong, but the details get too technical and too convoluted. I work in technology, so it wasn't that I didn't understand what they were talking about There's only so much I can swallow when it comes to prime numbers and the Fibonacci sequence and how many multipliers are needed to deviate from the quantum Final Thoughts I enjoyed the book.
I wanted to keep reading it. I'd like to see another one by this author. Hacking is a great topic. NSA double-crossing it a cool idea. The family ties no spoilers here was an amazing story line. But something felt like it was missing in how it truly all came together. I'm hoping it was left open so it can be explored in the next book -- not all to different from the original three in the series -- but it needs to be more tightly weaved. That said, kudos to Lagercrantz for successfully taking on the series and trying to continue the original creation.
He's done well enough for me to continue reading but still to keep my critical eye. View all 7 comments. Jul 08, Kristina rated it did not like it Shelves: my-book , disappointing , hated-em , hyped , omg-this-book-is-so-dumb , want-my-money-back , wtf , fiction , got-rid-of , mystery-thriller. This book is terrible. I suggest that if you really, really liked the first three, do not read this one. Nothing works. Not the plot, not the characters, not any of the words the author uses to describe what happens with the characters in the plot.
His characters came to life on the page and his plots, although somewhat convoluted, were suspenseful and interesting and you cared about what happened.
Usually this is where I write a brief summary of the plot of the book. The two plots are related. If Lagercrantz casually mentioned Salander leaping tall buildings in a single bound or flying around Sweden in a red cape, I would not have been surprised. As described in this novel, the woman is a superhero. My theory is that Lagercrantz was under so much pressure to stay true to the Lisbeth Salander character that he erred on the side of excessive character worship.
This book presents Salander as a superhero who can do everything. The theme of this story is way off base for a Millennium book. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the reader is lead on a deep, dark chase for a serial killer of women. The Girl Who Played with Fire started off with Dag and Mia's work the sex trade and helping bring justice for the women who were victimized. The ending is insane whares Logan Paul at. Fair enough, am in. I call her the female Punisher.
The girl in the spider 27s web series. Awww yisss i loved the original trilogy. Top cast Edit. Cameron Britton Plague as Plague. Andreja Pejic Sofia as Sofia. Anja Karmanski Landlord as Landlord. Fede Alvarez. Lisbeth Salander has been played by three different actresses, including Clarie Foy in the newest version of the film The Girl in the Spider's Web.
Who else was up for the role? More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Scarred forever by the hideous and unforgivable sins of her father, the antisocial, technologically brilliant computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, finds herself ridding Stockholm of sadists who hate women. It's been three silent years since she last saw her old journalist friend, Mikael Blomkvist, after the events of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , and now, Lisbeth is with her back to the wall, hunted down like prey for stealing Project FireFall: a powerful tool designed for the Americans, developed to breach and control most online defence systems.
Now, as the NSA, the Swedish Security Service, and deadly Russians are hot on her trail, more and more, Lisbeth's horrible past comes back to haunt her, and no one in this world is safe if the state-of-the-art computer software falls into the wrong hands. What does the future have in store for Lisbeth Salander, the girl in the spider's web? The Past Never Forgets. Action Crime Drama Thriller. Did you know Edit. Trivia Stieg Larsson had planned to write ten books about Lizbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, and the notes are in the possession of his partner, Eva Gabrielson.
However, since they were not married, his father and brother inherited the rights to his literary estate upon his death, and the two parties never came to terms about the direction of the series. The family then hired another writer to create new stories.
This film is based on the novel of the same name, the fourth book in the series and the first one not to be written by Stieg Larsson as he had died before he could write anymore entries.
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