re: Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

I loved the 2 Swedish movies, I really doubt Hollywood can do anything close to these. I'm really looking forward to seeing the 3rd one when it comes out. As for the books, I thought the 1st was great and the 2nd and 3rd dragged. But I read that Larrson orignally planned this to be a 10-part series before he died, and he actually died during the final edit of the 3rd book. So I think that explains why those books kinda seem like filler, maybe he felt like he had 7 more books to deal with character development, etc. And I read this FWIW, his common-law wife is being cut out of all of this enormous fortune the books have made because common-law marriages over there apparently can't share in estate wealth.