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“From a purely physical standpoint she didn’t have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

Finally in paperback in the U.S. today — THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson — the concluding volume of The Millennium Trilogy…

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“I was a scared little girl barely in my teens then. Now I’m a grown woman and I can kill you whenever I want.”
—Lisbeth Salander, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson

“I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most ‘innocent’ texts. If it gets too much we call the police.”
—Stieg Larsson

“The oil-drenched title sequence that opens David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” includes mesmerizing details from all three of Stieg Larsson’s books about hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander, not just the one upon which the movie is based. That might seem like an odd choice, but it was intentional. Blur Studio, the creator of the vivid opening, was given a mandate by Fincher to make the two-and-a-half-minute sequence a conceptual re-creation of Larsson’s full Millennium trilogy — and to completely turn the idea of title sequences on its head…”

Read more in Wired here.

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“But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn’t sure which.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has a dazzling premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City tonight.