Stieg Larsson Boxed Set: Will You Buy It?

publishersweekly.com:

In time for the holiday season, Knopf will release a boxed set of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy. The $99 package includes three hardcover editions of the books in the series, in a slip case, as well as a fourth volume about the dead author, On Stieg Larsson. The book about Larsson, which is a slim 85 pages, features essays about him by his colleague Jonas Sundberg, his original Swedish editor Eva Gedin, and his friend John Henri-Holmberg. On Stieg Larsson also includes a collection of e-mail exchanges between the author and his Swedish publisher, Nordtedts.

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Comments

[MossyOak]

07:09 PM on 10/28/2010

I wouldn't buy the set for myself since I have the first two sitting in my library. I liked them both because they were different from standard American fiction and I liked the Lisbeth character enough to stick by her when the going got tough at times. I'll wait for the third book in paperback and the movie with Daniel Craig looks interesting. The $99 boxed set would make a nice gift for someone you think might enjoy the trilogy.

[thebigbike]

11:02 PM on 10/27/2010

no.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

09:28 PM on 10/27/2010

I was intrigued by all the hype. I downloaded the first book last week. 24% of the way into the book and I wasn't sure I would finish it.

I kept on reading. It does get better (apologies to Dan Savage!!). I'm actually into it now.

THere's just so much filler and schit that doesn't matter - I cannot figure out why the author included some of it - I simply kept turning the page until I got to the meat of it.....

[Morgan James]

08:25 PM on 10/27/2010

I think people have found the books difficult to read because of all the Scandanavian names, which you finally just skip over, and the excessive unnecessary detail Larsson goes into at times. So many of these things would cause the manuscript of an unknown author to get bounced immediately and never see publication.

The story is good if you can manage to bypass the obstacles. I think that's why the movie worked better. I've read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire. While I'm interested in what happens to Lisabeth, I'll wait for the paperback of The Girl Who Kicked a Hornet's Nest. I'm not about to pay for the hardcover.

I think the set is priced high for this economy and will be a hard sell. There are too many other affordable good books out there.

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[naschkatze]

09:22 PM on 10/27/2010

I thought the movie was more successful than the book. The editing was brilliant.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

09:28 PM on 10/27/2010

The names are definitely an issue.

[JoJoRae]

07:51 PM on 10/27/2010

I still have not finished the first book. It is a rough read, so much info that has no bearing on the story. When Lisbeth is looking for a new computer it was like reading an Apple add, I actual think that Apple must of sposored the book or something because the brand is mentioned so often. I am interested in the mystery just not enough to read the book.

[naschkatze]

07:28 PM on 10/27/2010

No. I bought the first two books in paperback, and I've been waiting forever for the third to come out in paperback. Obviously, there is some marketing reason for it not coming out, but I am not falling for it. $99.00, no thanks. There are more than a dozen Scandinavian mystery writers who are better than Larsson.

[Mike169]

03:29 PM on 10/27/2010

I really didn't like the first book, though I started the second - buy it? Don't think so.