Just finished The Girl Who Lived Twice. Should have learned my lesson back with The Girl in the Spider’s Web and never picked it up. Lagercrantz has done to Stieg Larsson’s legacy what Yoko Ono did to the Beatles. Have to mention how incredibly inept Lagercrantz is writing action or technological thrilling material. The Girl Who Lived Twice reads like a census report. Lisbeth Salendar deserves better.
Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series.
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Girl-Who-Lived-Twice-Audiobook/B07KW4HC3B?ref=a_hp_c7_dd&pf_rd_p=1c2e229e-2b5d-4125-a05d-8434726d0a5b&pf_rd_r=53M3M3APRCYCMV4P4G3X
Lisbeth Salander is a badass and without her character I wouldn’t have even made it past the first book.
I’m glad I finished them all, but overall the series was sort of “meh”. IMO, the first one was the greatest and then it went downhill consistently.
The fifth book (The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye) was easily my least favorite. The plot/mystery was significantly less complex than the other four and the writing was very sloppy- redundant sentence structures and dialogue. The way Lagercrantz jumped back and forth between present and past was also just too muddled for me. Seemed like the ending came quickly and he just wanted to wrap it up.
I almost wish Lagercrantz hadn’t continued this series because, from what I understand, it was against Larsson’s wife’s wishes and she is apparently under possession of a remaining 10 unfinished books in the series. And he really didn’t do it justice.
I had a friend who loved this series and said I would love it even more than the Harry Potter series (last February I read the series for the first time and this February I took on The Millenium Series). I had another friend who shrugged and said I would probably find it mediocre, it was an “easy read” for her. Hilarious because I honestly didn’t consider this an “easy read” at all. It feels like there were so many characters. On top of that, some of the characters in each of the books were way too similar to me and I had trouble differentiating them.
EDITED accidentally posted before I was done typing oops! Also misspelled Larsson’s last name in the title so now that’s there forever
and without spoilers please
I am interested in buying and reading the book but dont want to do that if the new author changes any of the above traits of either of the characters, otherwise i'd prefer to let the versions that Stieg grew in my mind live on
i’d love to read a book about a main character who has autism as i am considering going for a diagnosis myself after months of thinking it most likely autistic. i’d prefer if the book deals with when they first find out about it and i’d like it to be young adult preferably, but doesn’t have to be!
Let me preface by saying I read The Girl Who Lived Twice about a year ago. I only recently found this subreddit, and am curious if other people who loved the first 3/4 books feel the same way.
I really enjoyed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book, and all subsequent Millennium books written by Stieg Larsson. Lisbeth is an interesting, complicated character. I enjoyed Mikael's character as well, even if I think he's kind of a jerk (everyone in that series is to be honest. Except for Dragan and Mimi.) But overall, the plot and characters were interesting and thrilling.
When I read The Girl in the Spider's Web (the first book under David Lagercrantz's name) I had hope that the new author wasn't going to ruin my further enjoyment of the series. Sure, Spider's Web was a bit different than the previous books in writing and tone, but overall it felt true to Lisbeth's character and the general Millennium vibe, if you will.
Then I found out that most of that book was pre-written (or at least plotted) by Larsson before his death.
So I was extremely shocked when I started reading The Girl who Lived Twice. Not only did the writing quality drop dramatically, but so did the quality of every other aspect of the story.
I was devestated by what felt like the destruction of Lisbeth's character literally within the first few pages. Where before, in my opinion, Larsson managed to write a complex woman lead with trauma that didn't feel like it belonged in r/menwritingwomen...Lagercrantz didn't hit the mark. Lisbeth read with the shallowness of countless other female leads in spy movies, and more than that, she felt infantilized. Like Lisbeth gaining her independence wasn't such a major part of the series and her character.
Not only that, Mikael felt butchered just the same. Now, he was no longer a flawed but ultimately redeemable character...he was just a jerk. And the entire dynamic between Lisbeth and Mikael was completely changed. In Lagercrantz's own words, Mikael was a "father figure" for Lisbeth...yeah, sure, let's just...forget about those couple weeks they slept together up in that cabin. Or the fact that Mikael has never once presumed to be able to "guide" Lisbeth to do anything.
Furthermore, I read the entirety of The Girl who Lived Twice not that long ago and can't remember what the plot was.
How did you feel about Lagercrantz's novels after Larsson's? Did you make it past The Girl who Lived Twice? I'd love to hear your opinions about it, as well
... keep reading on reddit ➡Phil
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Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.
If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.
Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???
Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.
Thank you,
A Dad.
So far nobody has given me a straight answer
..... Will get a reward.
Because they work on many levels
Well, toucan play at that game.
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