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The girl who kicked the hornet's nest / Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland.
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- ISBN: 9780307269997 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780670069033 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 9780143170112 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780143170143 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 563 p. ; 24cm.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, c2007.
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- General Note:
- Sequel to: The girl who played with fire.Originally published in Sweden as "Luftslottet som sprängdes" by Norstedts, Stockholm, in 2007.
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- 22 of 25 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Valemount Public Library | f lar (Text) | 35194014149496 | Adult Fiction | Not holdable | Missing | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2010 March #2
*Starred Review* When we last saw Lisbeth Salander, she was teetering between life and death. And who wouldn't be after having been shot by her father and buried alive by her brother? Salander was rescued, at the end of The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), by journalist Mikael Blomkvist. She's now in a Swedish hospital, slowly mending and awaiting trial for three murders she didn't commit. Meanwhile, her father, a former Soviet spy, is down the hall, recovering from the injuries he sustained when Lisbeth stuck an ax in his head. Blomkvist, Salander's loyal friend, sets out to prove her innocence, but to do so he must expose a decades-old conspiracy within the Swedish secret service that has resulted in, among other travesties, a lifetime of abuse heaped upon Salander, whose very life threatens to expose the deadly charade. The late Larsson (this third novel in his Millennium Trilogy is his final book) can be accused of heaping too much plot between two coversâin addition to the Salander story, there is an elaborate subplot involving Blomkvist's lover, Erica, and her travails as the first female editor of a major Stockholm newspaperâbut he is remarkably agile at keeping multiple balls in the air. But it wouldn't really matter if he weren't a skilled craftsman because Salander is such a bravura heroineâsteel will and piercing intelligence veiling a heartbreaking vulnerabilityâthat we'd willingly follow her through any bramble bush of a plot. She spends more than half of this novel in a hospital bed, but orchestrating the action from her Palm computer, she dominates the stage like Lear. There are few characters as formidable as Lisbeth Salander in contemporary fiction of any kind. She will be sorely missed. - BookPage Reviews : BookPage Reviews 2010 June
Thrilling conclusion to a landmark trilogyThe final volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, finds neo-punk and genius hacker Lisbeth Salander recuperating from a bullet to the brain. She's in no hurry to get better: A multiple-murder trial awaits her recovery. She has wreaked vengeance on her tormentors, who conspired to imprison her for most of her teen years. A few are dead, and the rest are scurrying to cover their tracks and somehow neutralize her before she can incriminate them. So was it murder, or self-defense? Or is there just the slightest possibility that Salander is, if not entirely innocent, at least not guilty in the eyes of the law?
Helping Salander from outside is renegade journalist Mikael Blomkvist, at times the focus of Salander's affections, and more recently the object of her unbridled loathing. Blomkvist isn't exactly sure how he fell from her graces, and she has not been forthcoming with the answer; indeed, she rebuffs his every advance. And so this uneasy pair labors, sometimes at odds, sometimes in parallel, in pursuit of Salander's freedom.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest neatly ties together all the loose ends from the previous two cliffhangers, yet it still leaves the reader yearning for more. At the time of his death, Larsson left behind an unfinished manuscript of what would have been the fourth book in the series, and synopses of the fifth and sixth. Sadly, we will probably never see them, at least not as the author intended.
Copyright 2010 BookPage Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2010 April #1
Lisbeth Salander is in big trouble. Again.In the third installment of the late journalist Larsson's unpretty exposé of all that is rotten in Sweden (The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009, etc.), Lisbeth meets her father, who, we learned a couple of books back, is not just her sire but also her mortal enemy. Pater shares her sentiments, so much so that, at the beginning of this trilogy-closerâthough there's talk that a fourth Salander novel has been found on Larsson's laptop and is being squabbled over in lawyers' officesâhe's apparently tried to exterminate the fruit of his loins. Being the resourceful lass that she is, Lisbeth rises from the grave to take her vengeance. Or, as longtime Larsson hero/alter ego Mikael Blomkvist tells us, she somehow managed to "get back to the farm and swung an axe into Zalachenko's skull." Adds Blomkvist, helpfully, "She can be a moody bitch." So she can, but that's the manner of avenging angels, and Lisbeth has lots of avenging to do. She also has lots of help. Blomkvist, a little mystified as always, runs on the sidelines along with girlfriend and publisher Erika Berger, while some favorite figures from the first installment, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, return to do their bit, among them fellow überhacker Plague, who still hasn't taken a shower nearly 1,000 pages later. There are some new or hitherto minor players along for the ride, including another Zalachenko creation, a German very-bad-guy named Niedermann, who covers his tracks pretty well. Writes Larsson, "The problem with Niedermann was that he had no friends, no girlfriend and no listed cell phone, and he had never been in prison," which makes life difficult even for a master tracker-downer such as Lisbethâwhom, unhappily, Niedermann is trying to do in as well. It's a delicious mayhem, where no man is quite good and no rich person has the slightest chance of entering the kingdom of heaven. Oh, there are lots of very bad bikers, too.Patented Larsson, meaning fast-paced enough to make those Jason Bourne films seem like Regency dramas.First printing of 500,000 Copyright Kirkus 2010 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2010 January #1
Lisbeth Salander is in intensive care at a Swedish hospital and under guard-she's accused of three murders. The conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire; obviously, buy big, and alert your reading groups (there's a guide). With a 500,000-copy first printing. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
The final volume of Larsson's best-selling "Millennium" trilogy begins where The Girl Who Played with Fire left off: Lisabeth Salander lies comatose in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in the head, while a few rooms away her father, a Soviet defector, recovers from the severe axe wounds she inflicted. Meanwhile, journalist Mikael Blomqvist sets out to clear Lisbeth of murder charges by exposing a secret group of Swedish intelligence officers who had conspired to protect her father's identity by nearly destroying Lisbeth. Unfortunately, this crackerjack opening is followed by 100 pages of tedious plot rehashing and dry summaries of Swedish history and politics. Because Larsson's fascinating heroine is offstage for much of the early action, the novel lacks its predecessors' compelling narrative drive, although a few surprising scenes will keep readers hanging in there. Their patience will be well rewarded in the final 200 pages, where Larsson ties his multiple plot threads together into a satisfying conclusion. Larsson's other female characters, including Annika, Mikael's lawyer sister who kicks some serious legal butt at the climactic trial, and Berger, Mikael's old lover and business partner who battles sexism at a major newspaper, play bigger roles here and reflect the author's passionate opposition to misogyny and injustice. Verdict Despite its flaws, this is a must read for Larsson fans. New readers should start with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/10; 500,000-copy first printing.]-Wilda Williams, Library Journal Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2010 March #5
The exhilarating conclusion to bestseller Larsson's Millennium trilogy (after The Girl Who Played with Fire) finds Lisbeth Salander, the brilliant computer hacker who was shot in the head in the final pages of Fire, alive, though still the prime suspect in three murders in Stockholm. While she convalesces under armed guard, journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to unravel the decades-old coverup surrounding the man who shot Salander: her father, Alexander Zalachenko, a Soviet intelligence defector and longtime secret asset to Spo, Sweden's security police. Estranged throughout Fire, Blomkvist and Salander communicate primarily online, but their lack of physical interaction in no way diminishes the intensity of their unconventional relationship. Though Larsson (1954â2004) tends toward narrative excess, his was an undeniably powerful voice in crime fiction that will be sorely missed. 500,000 first printing. (May)
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