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The Book’s The Thing…

BySeema Goswami
Sep 03, 2016 08:11 PM IST

But the title matters too, especially if it has the key word ‘Girl’ in it

It all kicked off with Stieg Larsson, author of the Scandi-noir trilogy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest. Lisbeth Salander, the dark and damaged ‘Girl’ of the books, became a cult heroine with her Goth make-up, elaborate tattoos, fiery intelligence, and take-no-prisoners attitude. Such was her popularity that even after her creator, Larsson, had passed, Lisbeth got another outing in The Girl In The Spider’s Web (written by David Lagercrantz).

Gillian Flynn’s groundbreaking thriller Gone Girl, was appreciated both as a novel and in its movie adaptation(Getty Images)
Gillian Flynn’s groundbreaking thriller Gone Girl, was appreciated both as a novel and in its movie adaptation(Getty Images)
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