Month: July 2010
The Millennium Trilogy: a tribute and more gossips
Well, I was not planning to devote another blog post to these three books but there seems to be a lot of interest in them. This trilogy is kind of the Harry Porter for grown ups and apparently Lisbeth Salander has become a media/culture figure first in Europe and now in the US. I…
The Millennium Trilogy’s Author: Stieg Larsson
These are the book covers for UK’s release of the Millennium Trilogy. The book covers in yesterday’s post are used in the US editions. I prefer the US covers. The author of the Millennium Trilogy died in 2004 several months after he submitted the trilogy to his publisher and before the first book was published.…
The Millennium Trilogy
I just finished the third book of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson at around 2am Thursday night. The Millennium Trilogy consist of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo“, “The Girl Who Played With Fire“, and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest“. The contemporary crime-thrillers originally published in Sweden in 2005-2007 were translated into…
FREITAG
Freitag is a company that makes unique messenger bag out of tarp recycled from trucks, old seat belts, used airbags and bicycle inner tires. Each is cut by hand, the design of which keeps some of the original graphics (recontextualized as they say), and is therefore a one-off design. Apparently, MOMA acquired one of their…