Reading recommendations

[OverNinja]

You know that "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is first of a trilogy?
The others are "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest".

The rest of the films will be released this fall in the US.

[Desertpuma]

Yes, I know it is the first in a trilogy and I have the other 2 books. I have pre-ordered the DVD for Dragon Tattoo as well.

[Nepenthe]

Yes, I know it is the first in a trilogy and I have the other 2 books. I have pre-ordered the DVD for Dragon Tattoo as well.

Was originally meant to have more parts than that, but the author passed away (in fact the three books were released posthumously). Apparently the manuscript of a fourth one exists in a semi-ready state.

Haven't actually read them yet, got the (original Swedish versions, of course  ) books already bought and waiting for a "quiet moment" for me to read them. (You know, one of those moments I'm waiting for to do all the Mass Craft stuff I've promised etc.  )

[Desertpuma]

Yeah, I heard there was a fourth one in pieces somewhere. I have the obviously English translations which are translated quite well. Each book is 600+ pages and the last looks to be 700+ actually.

[Crafty_Pat]

Just finished reading "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" which was very good. It is a Swedish novel so the sensibilities might be a bit different from American tastes but it is very good. I liked it so much I bought the sequels and the DVD of the film based on the novel (since I'd rather see the original film instead of Hollywood's pending remake of it).

That was playing at the theater where Steve and I caught Survival of the Dead last weekend. Looked interesting.

[Desertpuma]

It is very interesting. The female lead role is a hacker with Aspergers and is, according to what I've read, expertly played by Noomi Rapace, a Swedish actress. Every youngish mid-20s Hollywood actress will want to take a crack at the role but there are very few who could pull it off in my opinion. Summer Glau or Rachel McAdams could do it if they are willing to shed their clothes for certain scenes and endure some punishment.

[Aldus Vertten]

The fist movie os quite gooooood, but the 2nd was awfully boring... a Friendof mine keeps tellling me to read the books...

[Desertpuma]

I found the second one to be good as well.

I'm about to dig into Christopher Andrew's Authorized Biography on the History of MI5 ... the book is 850 pages of text plus 150 pages of end notes, bibliography, and appendicies. It is mammoth so it will be my reading assignment for the next couple of weeks at least when I am not converting over all the stuff from my 2nd Ed AD&D home gameworld into FC.

It looks excellent. Skimming it provides looks at pics from WWI forward through 1990 actually.

[TheAuldGrump]

Very much enjoying Drood. If you liked The List of 7 then there is a good chance that you will like this as well, though it is a lot darker and broodier. (The narrator is Wilkie Collins, the main character is Charles Dickens, as the title probably gives away.)

The Auld Grump

[Desertpuma]

I'm about to start List of Seven and probably follow it with with something by either Steve Berry, Greg Iles, the Six Messiahs (also by Mark Frost), or the Authorized Biography of MI5.

[Crafty_Pat]

the Six Messiahs (also by Mark Frost)

...and the one and only sequel to The List of 7.

[Desertpuma]

Have you read it Pat?

[tracker7]

I'm rereading Soon I Will be Invincible, by Austin Grossman. It's a lot of fun, and I'll borrow an idea or two for the supers game that my second group has asked me to run.

[Krensky]

I've been reading Drake's most recent RCN novel.

A lot of fun, great example of action and espionage without looking like a spy novel.

[glimmerrat]

I'm rereading The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt.

Xeno-Archaelogy and possible extinction-level-events. Very good book.