After listening Stieg Larsson magnificent fiction literary work the Millennium Trilogy, I was pondering over this work of literature that had stay with me for so long. I got to choose from various aspects:
Reader Satisfaction: The fulfillment experience along the reader-ride path by the most contemporary novels of actual current affairs --corruption, crime, blackmail and domestic violence--; a work that carries all the elements to deliver such effect on a well conquered audience.
Original Plot: Mikael Blomkvist investigative journalist is sentence to prison for allegations about billionare Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. Meanwhile he embarks on an assignment propose by CEO of Vanger Enterprises Henrik Vanger, ignoring he is being put under investigation by private investigator Lisbeth Salander.
Blomkvist work on assignment from Vanger estates getting familiar with the case-assign of disappearing niece Harriet and Vanger relatives whom found his presence unappealing.
On Salander’s side, she encounter her new guardian who extort and sexually abuse her as an exchange to access her own funds. After couple sexual assaults which include rape she counteracts the extortion, tattooing and blackmailing him with the publication of a video of him raping her in return for complete access of her funds.
Blomkvist found Salander hacking on his computer as she try to help on his case-assignment, then he pursue her to team on the research. Together they discover Harriet’s notes and the realization of a serial killer in the person of latest CEO of Vanger Enterprises, Martin Vanger, Harriet’s brother. Salander saves Blomkvist’s life seconds away from the death as Martin attempts to kill him, Martin encounter death on a car accident trying to scape Salander’s persecution.
Martin’s revelation that Harriet disappear before his eyes without a trace, lead Blomkvist to track her after Anita Vanger identification in Australia, there he convince her to visit Henrik Vanger in Sweden to reunited. Blomkvist promised not to revealed the horror crime history of Vanger family under the condition that Vanger Enterprises will donate considerable funds to institutions that support victims of domestic violence.
Blomkvist paid a short term on prison, while there Salander hack Wennerstroom’s computer bringing to light crimes and corruption not revealed yet on Blomkvist documents. He delivered the truth which plunger Wennerstrom, later found dead. The prints on Wennerstrom’s affairs rocked Blomkvist and Millenium editorial to the best at career and nationwide.
Last, Salander made use of her superb computer skills irrupting on Wennerstrom secrets banks adopting various identities and excel on taking a nip of funds to herself, unnoticed by everyone but not to Blomkvist.
A Taste of Larsson’s Life Endurance on Sweden's Quill:
Observing Stieg Larsson’s life we learn that The Millenium Trilogy was inspired on and throughout his life experiences regarding humanity. His existence was held with endurance trying to pursuing justice meanwhile receiving death threats. He was a devoted activist for human rights, fighting against discrimination, and domestic violence.
As a journalist and editor-in-chief of Expo Magazine in Sweden he often wrote to expose extremist movements of right-wing, neo-Nazi and anti-democratic tendencies.
