There's probably a country somewhere in the world where Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy hasn't become a best-seller. For years, the Swedish author's crime thrillers - starting with "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and concluding with "The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" - have been flying out of bookstores all over the world.

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Here are some photos of Rooney Mara as she becomes Lisbeth Salander for the Hollywood version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Training with a motorcycle in early September:


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Stieg Larsson’s best-selling “Millennium” trilogy continues to thrill readers across the country - and the film adaptations released by Music Box Films are putting viewers at the edges of their seats all ( Read more... )

Tattooed, fond of black lipstick, creative with nail guns: Punk hacker Lisbeth Salander is fiercely unique - or, as her creator Stieg Larsson puts it, a character who "looked as though she had just emerged from a week-long orgy with a gang of hard rockers." Naturally, she's attracted millions of fans to Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.


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Lisbeth Salander, the character at the center of Stieg Larsson's three novels (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) and their Swedish film versions, has ascended to a rare height in crime fiction: she's become the female Hannibal Lecter.


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