Books 1 & 2
Jan. 10th, 2018 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
First, I read more books last year than I have since I started keeping track. Previously I've managed around 25 or so in a year, but last year I read 33! My therapist questions whether that's really a good thing or not, but I think it's amazing. Given the fact that I want to try and be more creative this year, I'm not sure I'll manage as many, but we'll see.
So I started A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.
It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age—and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it—who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism—and an unexpected connection between themselves.
It’s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives. in December, but I didn't finish it until last week. I haven't seen the movie, but I'm guessing the entire movie plot is pulled from the last third of the book. The beginning is dreadfully boring. Only little teases here and there that kept me curious. The last third really picks up though and things start happening. Overall, it was ok, but not something I would recommend. And I won't be reading the rest of the series.
Now I've decided to try and finish the last few books of the Oz series. I only have 9-14 to read. I started reading Book 9, Cap'n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, the former ruler of Oz, overthrow the villainous King Krewl of Jinxland. Cap'n Bill and Trot had previously appeared in two other novels by Baum, The Sea Fairies and Sky Island. Based in part upon the 1914 silent film, His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. This was allegedly L. Frank Baum's personal favourite Oz book. sometime last year, but it's been so long, I couldn't remember any of it, so I started over. So far it's at least not killing everyone they encounter, but it's pulling in random characters from another story that Baum wrote. I'm not sure I like it very much.
So I started A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.
It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age—and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it—who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism—and an unexpected connection between themselves.
It’s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives. in December, but I didn't finish it until last week. I haven't seen the movie, but I'm guessing the entire movie plot is pulled from the last third of the book. The beginning is dreadfully boring. Only little teases here and there that kept me curious. The last third really picks up though and things start happening. Overall, it was ok, but not something I would recommend. And I won't be reading the rest of the series.
Now I've decided to try and finish the last few books of the Oz series. I only have 9-14 to read. I started reading Book 9, Cap'n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, the former ruler of Oz, overthrow the villainous King Krewl of Jinxland. Cap'n Bill and Trot had previously appeared in two other novels by Baum, The Sea Fairies and Sky Island. Based in part upon the 1914 silent film, His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. This was allegedly L. Frank Baum's personal favourite Oz book. sometime last year, but it's been so long, I couldn't remember any of it, so I started over. So far it's at least not killing everyone they encounter, but it's pulling in random characters from another story that Baum wrote. I'm not sure I like it very much.