The Man Who Left Too Soon - The Life And Works Of Stieg Larsson

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Format:: Paperback
Pages:: 288
Publisher:: Blake Publishing
Publication Date:: 04 April 2011
Category:: Biography: Literary
ISBN:: 9781843583707

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His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not there to witness any of their international success. That his fame is entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with which his star has risen. However, when one looks a little deeper at the man behind these phenomenal novels, it becomes clear that Larsson's life would have been remembered as extraordinary even if his Millennium Trilogy had never been published. Larsson was a workacholic: a keen politcal activist, photographer, graphic desinger, a respected journalist and editor of numerous science fiction magazines...and at night, to relax after work, he wrote thrillers. As the world now knows, he had completed his third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by the time of his death at just 50 years of age.

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This book will probably seel moderately well, as its subject is hot propoerty; however it is a big disappointment and cannot be called a biography. Its opens with the briefest overview of Larsson's life and work, mostly lifted from other publications. Then the bulk of the volume is spent going over the plots of Larsson's three published volumes, interspersed with the briefest of comments. Then follows a lengthy chapter telling you what numerous other crime writers think about the work of Larsson, at this point I pulled out what remaining hair I have! It is stiffly written in style and offers nothing really new. I enjoy a good biography and recived this one as a gift; it is probably amongst the worst biographies I have ever read. do I tel the person who gave it to me? That, is the mystery....

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