It's Here

It’s Here

Finally! The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the finale to Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular Millenium trilogy, has arrived in the US. I don’t know about you, but I plan to be at my local bookseller as soon as possible to pick this one up. Here’s some of the hubbub on the internets:

Michiko Kakutani, who often seems to have a personal vendetta against books, gives Hornet’s Nest a glowing review. it must be opposite day.

Washington Post review: “Only now, with the publication of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest…can we fully appreciate the Swedish writer’s achievement.The trilogy ranks among those novels that expand the horizons of popular fiction.”

San Francisco Chronicle review

NYT Magazine reports on the sordid details of the author’s estate: The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson

This LA Times review seems to miss it completely. Read on to the end to see what I mean.

Salon on why we can’t get enough Lisbeth Salander

Slate wishes the Lisbeth Salander had founded a better author

Salander’s debt to Pippi Longstockings