The Girl In the Spider’s Web

There has been a lot of controversy over Swedish author David Lagercrantz and his sanction to continue the mega popular Millennium series (roughly 80 million copies to date) originally authored by the late Stieg Larsson. I’m an uber fan who couldn’t quite convince his wife to read past the first 10 pages of the “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”.

Its been 5 years since the last novel of the trilogy was published and available stateside. I subsequently learned about David’s commission but decided to stick my head in the sand and conveniently ignore the dilemma that would ensue from deciding whether to continue with the series written (typed?) by a hand other then Larsson’s. That spell broke a couple of days ago when Goodreads sent me a notification about the upcoming release of the book. Since then, I’ve been debating whether or not to pull the proverbial trigger.

Well, I was on the fence until yesterday.

What changed?

a) The early reviews are mostly good. The New York Times, The Independent and The Guardian all recommend it with ‘The Washington Post’ being the only hold-out so far.

b) I came to the sudden realization that I just couldn’t stay away from Lisbeth Salander anymore.

c) Simon Vance is still the narrator of choice for the audio version!

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Originally published at khashmi.wordpress.com on August 30, 2015.