The second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire, has retained its title; the other two books have been given similar titles in English ('The Girl Who...'). The third book is called The Air Castle That Blew Up in the original.
While I've only read the first book so far (in Norwegian translation ;-), I've seen the second book described as "Lisbeth's book", focusing more on her. Changing the title of the other books to something catchier seems to focus the whole series on her, which is possibly not what the author intended.
Yes, Men Who Hate Women is a pretty uncompromising title, but then, so is the subject matter. It helps put the statistics between the chapters in context. Towards the end of the book, when they're digging up dirt on the person behind Blomkvist's libel conviction, Lisbeth's describes him as "another man who hates women". I think he's the fourth one they've encountered.
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Date: Thursday, September 9th, 2010 01:18 pm (UTC)While I've only read the first book so far (in Norwegian translation ;-), I've seen the second book described as "Lisbeth's book", focusing more on her. Changing the title of the other books to something catchier seems to focus the whole series on her, which is possibly not what the author intended.
Yes, Men Who Hate Women is a pretty uncompromising title, but then, so is the subject matter. It helps put the statistics between the chapters in context. Towards the end of the book, when they're digging up dirt on the person behind Blomkvist's libel conviction, Lisbeth's describes him as "another man who hates women". I think he's the fourth one they've encountered.