Given the authors death at the time he began trying to get the novels published, it is possible that there was no time to brush up the story to make it flow better.
Actually, he died after he'd delivered the final edit to his publisher for all three books. Millenium was in no way left "unfinished" (leaving aside the story about a fourth book)
You're right, the ending sets up the next books. But you'll see, it's a bit more than that, the real story of the trilogy begins with that too. By the end you might rather wonder if it was necessary to spend a whole book with a stand-alone mystery just to set up the characters before getting to books 2-3.
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- 08/04/2010 10:22:04 PM
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- 09/04/2010 12:03:16 AM
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My buddy actually mentioned this book to me a couple days ago.
- 09/04/2010 04:43:33 AM
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Re: My buddy actually mentioned this book to me a couple days ago.
- 09/04/2010 02:20:31 PM
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I really don't understand the need for a title change for the english version...
- 09/04/2010 03:34:29 PM
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I guess the found the title too provocative?
- 10/04/2010 02:46:26 AM
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The original swedish title means literally "Men who hate women" *NM*
- 10/04/2010 08:35:21 AM
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I did wonder about that past tense in the French titles - where does it come from? *NM*
- 10/04/2010 12:39:50 PM
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Although in the second book, the Dutch title is in the past tense as well. *NM*
- 10/04/2010 05:03:08 PM
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well, that is true for the second and third book in Swedish too. Not the first one, though. *NM*
- 10/04/2010 05:29:59 PM
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- 10/04/2010 09:59:25 PM
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Hm. A film by this title is coming to the student theater here. *NM*
- 10/04/2010 10:34:59 AM
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