Share your favourite Millennium experience
That’s right – Lisbeth Salander wants YOU!
Think something’s missing from sallysfriends.net?
- Always wanted to write that geeky treatise about which types of programmes Lisbeth really uses to hack?
- Got a searing analysis of the films vs. the books?
- Do you know the secret of Stieg Larsson’s writing ‘formula’ – and why it is so damn cool (well, most of the time 
?
- Or – or – or – check out the Ideas-page for more suggestions!
Then do me – and the rest of sally’s friends a favour and grab that keyboard and TYPE!
You might want to send me a pitch first so you don’t waste time writing 10 pages and get a rejection (in that case, you could of course just post it on your own Facebook profile, blog or whatever).
You are welcome to do that anyway – by the way; post it own your own site.
That’s right – if you have your own fan site, you’ll get material for both your own site and you get to help me build mine – or should I say ours: I never really considered sallysfriends.net just mine, but sometimes it sure feels like it.
As a matter of fact I’ve decided to take a step back and let this site remain in cyberspace as an homage to my great idol, Stieg Larsson, but I will no longer be making major updates myself. You will do that now – if you, like I, have a lot of love an enthusiasm about Millennium, this is your chance to contribute to a ‘serious Millennium site’ – no just regurgitated commercial pap..
I don’t think Lisbeth, or Stieg for that matter, deserves anything less.
Best,
Chris
P.S. Mail your pitches/articles to me at chris_sallysfriends.net or post them here in the comments field
Categories: From the Fans
4 Comments » (Including One Discussion Thread)
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September 5th, 2010 at 2:01 AM
I read Millennium Trilogy quite recently in French and I regret I couldn’t read it in Swedish (I speak Danish, not Swedish btw). Books are really good and Larsson’s work is different from other Swedish crime novels, like Henning Mankell’s Wallander Series. It’s like… It reminds me some American crime stories, a mix of James Ellroy’s “Black Dahlia” and “American Tabloid”. Many friends of mine who read the books were stunned by the feminist dimension of the trilogy and I think there will never be enough literature denouncing violence to women.
I actually fell in love with Lisbeth. A very interesting character who has been unlucky since the day she was born and who had too much difficulties for one human being. Then she keeps going, even if she’s objectively strange and even if the Swedish society considers her as an outcast. Well, she’s an outcast… and proud to be. She’s a victim of a kind of big f*cking Murphy’s law and then… she survives. Lisbeth is, in her way, a great lesson of courage for people because whatever she suffered, she’s never been crushed by the system… and we all know how the system tried to crush her.
I also like how Stieg Larsson shows minorities in his books, the trilogy kicks the ass of prejudices like homophobia (with Lisbeth bi-sexuality, her relationship with Mimmi and the character of Christer Malm who’s gay). A great lesson of tolerance.
Some passages in the books are quite violent but it’s not “free violence” (don’t know the exact words in English, sorry), because it’s like… a denunciation. Because we need to know. We need to know the horrors of a system, of the human being.
In two words, the trilogy is a lesson. Masterly.
P.S. My English is bad, I’m sorry. I’m French and it’s late at night.
September 5th, 2010 at 2:15 AM
No need to feel bad… your comment is Very Appreciated!
If you ever feel like writing a serious rant on ‘the feminist dimension’, do get back to me. It would be a great addition to sallys.
September 8th, 2010 at 6:15 AM
I cant seem to get enough of Stiegs book and/or Lisbeth Salander. I rented the first movie accidently and the next day had to go out and buy all three books. I read the first two books in like four days, but I dont want to finish ..Hornets nest…! While I was reading ..”Dragon Tatoo” I found out that Stieg Larsoon died after turning in his 3 manuscripts. This was so depressing, I was mooping around for a long time. Talk about bad luck, just when he’s about to be the most famous (current/new) author on the planet he dies!!! Then I realized that though the character he created, Lisbeth Salander will never die, its as if shes gone into seclusion. Noomi Rapace will always be the ONLY Lisbeth. There isnt another actress on the planet that can replace her. Im almost 50 years old and Ive never reacted like this to any book(s)/movie(s) in my life. Sometimes I feel kind of foolish about it to tell you the truth. I cant get enough.
September 14th, 2010 at 10:06 PM
I am just reading the second Millennium book and I am absolutely hooked. So sad that Stieg Larsson did not live to see the phenomenon his books have become. I see people every day on the train reading the books and they seem to be turning the pages as rapidly as I am.