The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... the first time that I've came across this book I was seating down at some random chair at Border's waiting for my mum. I was so desperately bored that I've picked that book and I remember thinking: "who in their right mind would buy this? It's probably another annoying book about how some girl went dark and yada, yada, yada." I started reading it anyway and quickly realized that I was SO wrong. After I went through the first pages I was hooked. Needless to say that I've bought the book and read it all in two days. This is a story of an antisocial, extremely introverted and completely pierced girl named Lisbeth Salander who is a computer hacker and very good at was she does. She's hired by Henrik Vanger who partners her with Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist for the magazine Millenium (curiously the name of the whole Larsson's book series or aka hint for sequels). They're job is to find out who killed Harriet Vanger but what would be at first a simple investigation turns out to be something a lot more complex than that. I immediately started researching Larsson's other books (I firmly believed that there HAD to be a sequel to that story and this time I was right) and the two following ones came up: "The Girl who played with Fire " and "The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest" both of which I've wasted no time in reading it (please note that I'm not that much of a reader but I am an incurable cinephile and these stories, along with King's, keep my creativity flowing). Having studied filmmaking before, I could visualize almost instantly how those stories would work in a movie: "what shots would I use ?" , "what kind of actors would fit in these heavily concentrated characters ?", "what would be places used for the shooting?" and so on. It turns out that I wasn't alone. Danish director Niels Arden Oplev tought the same thing and along with filming it in Sweden (using both Stockholm and other Swedish rural areas) he did a spectacular job in casting Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist and the superb Swedish actress Noomi Rampace (yes, Salander is my new hero due to Rampace's terrific performance). Considering the movie was all filmed in Swedish (which showed true loyalty to the original story) it achieved the unthinkable by breaking European box offices like never before.
The new Hollywood version of it it's coming out on the 21st of December 2011 and if you haven't yet I suggest you read the book before you go watch it. Believe me, it's worth it :-)
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