Stieg Larsson's Brother Rejects Claims Made By Eva Gabrielsson In Memoir

ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):

The brother of Stieg Larsson, the Swedish author behind the bestselling Millennium trilogy, has rejected claims published in a book by the late author's long-time partner.

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Comments

[bobbysgurl]

04:00 PM on 02/01/2011

I've said before that it was good that the father and brother contributed to worthy causes, but what is wrong with them giving Gabrielsson half of the 38 million dollars. I believe I read that amount somewhere. It is a enough money to be charitable and gracious. There is no way a person lives with another person for 30 years without knowing their true wishes. Unless Larsson specifically said do not give Gabrielsson a dime in writing, the family should give her half. And, let her finish the fourth book. If it is not congruent with the other books, drop it.

[Tulka2]

07:12 PM on 01/31/2011

I've read the three novels and anyone who has knows whose side Stieg Larson would be on in this struggle.  It's so weirdly all like a Stieg Larson novel.  Makes me wonder if Stieg's brother has even actually read them or he wouldn't slide so easily into this clueless and/or villainous role.   At this point in the battle, i would like to hear from  Gabrielsoon what she thinks her lover's family deserves.  Money, but not control of the books?  That seems the right balance to me.

[ValdaDeDieu]

07:10 PM on 01/27/2011

It's about the $$$$$$$! Can't we all just get along?

[onwisconsin]

04:35 PM on 01/27/2011

I just read Stieg Larsson's books over the weekend on my Kindle. I found them compelling for their genre. We then rented one of the movies on Sunday evening. Though it stayed close to the plot of the book, much more than American films do, I didn't find it as interesting as the books. Larsson had a unique way of telling a story, with a great deal of detail. I was saddened to find out he had died at the end of the third book.

It's too bad that the woman he loved and his family can't get along. If this happened to me, I would always err in favor of the partner. My family doesn't know me as well as my husband does.

[signgrrl]

06:52 PM on 01/27/2011

they just think they do.

[pecosdog]

11:50 PM on 01/27/2011

I liked the movies because they did do a good job of staying as close to the book as they did. And Noomi Rapace did a great job of bringing Lisbeth Salander to the screen. And I am very disappointed to hear that there is a 'murcan version coming out now. I don't want to see an American Salander or Blomkvist made.

[onwisconsin]

10:51 AM on 01/28/2011

I may have just not been in the right mindset. Sometimes right after I've read a book, it's disastrous to watch the movie. Also, we chose to watch it dubbed rather than with subtitles. I should have gone for the subtitles. The American accents on Swedish characters just did not do it for me.

Maybe I'll get all three movies and watch them dubbed, one after another.