I thought them violent, overlong and quite frankly dull at times, could have done with some stringent editing. I am currently watching the Swedish language version of the three films on BBC4 (half a film every week), but I gave up reading the books after finishing the first one The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I haven’t read the book, merely seen the film, and that is my next link: Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. My next link is to a rich heir with a disability (rather than a terminal illness) who is loved by someone who is not interested in his huge wealth: the huge bestseller Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. The book is about a rich but ill heiress, who is treated rather badly by a self-interested couple. Although he moves so slowly, as if he had all the time in the world, you are never bored.’ □ To fully appreciate him, you must read slowly, tasting every word, chewing, swallowing, and then digesting his ideas as well. He is quiet, takes such small steps, little by little he lets us advance into the story. I found my teenage diary and this is what I had to say about it when I was 15: ‘He so calms me, this man. So my first link is to another book that I read a very, very long time ago, loved back then but haven’t reread since, namely The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.
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