犬は凍ってても気にせず草をむしゃむしゃ食べます。キジを見つめるユキ。
久しぶりに本を読みました。スウェーデンの推理小説家、スティーグ・ラーソンの「ミレニアム」シリーズの第３作、「眠れる女と狂卓の騎士」。
シリーズ１作目の「ドラゴン・タトゥーの女」がハリウッドで映画化されています。ダニエル・クレイグとルーニー・マーラね。
実はもう３作とも昔読んだし、ハリウッド版の映画も見てるし、スウェーデンのテレビシリーズもずっと昔に制覇している。ネットフリックスでハリウッド版の「ドラゴン・タトゥーの女」とスウェーデン版の２作目の「火と戯れる女」をやっていたので久しぶりに見たんだけど、３作目は出ていなかったので本で読んだ。長いし、無駄な部分が多いんだけど、話は好き。
It is getting cold. I have not lived in full-fledged winter weather for such a long time. But regardless of the temperature, when the sun is out, the country side England is just as beautiful. I took the dogs out for a walk in the morning. The grass was frozen and the fog was covering the lower ground. The dogs still ate the frozen grass every opportunity they got and made light crisp sound as they much on the grass. When we reach the horse field, I saw the horses further down the field against the rising sun. The horses sparkled against the bright sun light and their breaths rose like smoke as they breathed. It was breathtakingly beautiful and I had to stop and watch until it became too cold to stay standing still.
It took me over a month but I finally finished reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. It is the third installment of the Millennium series, or more popularly known as the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.
I had read the series before, watched the Swedish TV series (longer than the movie), and the Hollywood adaptation of the Dragon Tattoo before. I watched the Hollywood's Dragon Tattoo on Netflix last month, then there was the Swedish film version of The Girl Who Played with Fire on Netflix as well. But they did not have the third one, so I had to read the book.
I do feel that especially this 3rd installment book, the writing is not great. It's not necessarily the writing (especially when I'm reading an English translation), but I think the book needed a bit of editing. I don't mind the length, but some part of this book could have been organized a bit better to streamline the story. Some parts are disjointed.
I wonder if the Swedish court system is really like how it was in the book in real life. The way the evidence was presented during the trial without the other side's knowledge is crazy.
So, the author, Stieg Larsson, passed away after completing the 3 installments. I did not know until very recently that the series is being continued with a replacement author. Luckily, when I went to the library yesterday to return the book, the library had the 4th installment, The Girl in the Spider's Web, on the shelf so I grabbed it. Let's see if the story is still interesting to carry on.
By the way, this is my biggest fear about A Game of Thrones series (or correctly, A Song of Ice and Fire series). I have been a big fan of the series and patiently waiting for the new book. I mean, if it took him 6 years to go from book 4 to book 5, and that's before the HBO series, I don't even know if he's going to even finish the book 6...
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