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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307454541
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307454546
ASIN: 0307454541
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
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Product Description
A sensation across Europe-millions of copies sold
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.
It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age-and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it-who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism-and an unexpected connection between themselves.
It's a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --Dave Callanan
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 Amazing and gripping July 29, 2010
Barbara G. Conley (San Antonio TX)
It has been a long time since I have read a book I couldn't lay down.....when I HAD to do something else, I could hear my Kindle calling me to get back to see what was going to happen next! Lisbeth, with all her virtues and faults, is an unusual heroine for the times, and I found her intriguing, intelligent, thoughtful and courageous. Have been telling everyone I know about this book (and the others in the series). My only regret is that this author died and we are unable to get more books in the genre he established.
Great book; wonderful trilogy July 29, 2010
A. Nelson (Camas WA)
This book was recommended to me by a friend. I'm not going to talk about the actual story because others have done a great job of it. I'm going to talk about the reading experience.
It took me close to 100 pages to get into it, just as my friend had warned me. I believe the problem is that there are a lot of Swedish names of streets, buildings, towns etc. that are hard to wrap our minds around because they are long and unfamiliar. At any rate, just as she said, all of a sudden this book grabbed me and I couldn't put it down. I was reading half the night. Although I couldn't read full time, I read all 3 of the trilogy within 4 or 5 days.
This was supposed to be the first book of a 10 book series, but unfortunately, the author died while writing book 4. What a disappointment to think that there are no more in this series to read. I highly recommend this trilogy.
Can't wait for the movies!
 hard to get through, but worth it... July 29, 2010
Vin's Mom (Pine Brook, NJ)
i have to admit that this book was difficult to get through. the names of all the cities confused me... and i had a hard time keeping track of who was who in the vanger family... i wish the character of lisbeth salander was more of the main story line... i found her very intriguing...
Astonishingly Good July 28, 2010
Michael DENNISUK (trenton, michigan USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stieg Larsson has given us one of the best crime thrllers in recent memory. This excellently crafted novel has great character development, mindbending plot twists and outstanding writing. Lisabeth Salander is one of the most original literary characters to come along in quite awhile. What a shame that Mr. Larsson passed away before he could complete his planned 10 book series.
Meh. Not bad, but not worth this kind of attention July 28, 2010
Mrs. Garside (Oregon)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to this one, despite of some of the reservations that other reviewers have had (Larsson hates women! The plot is both convoluted and too easy to figure out!) I must agree with the second point. About the first, I'm less sure.
This starts when disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist, fresh from losing a libel case, gets an offer (ostensibly) to write a book about an old industrial family, the Vangers. The real job is to find out who murdered sixteen-year-old Harriet Vanger, back in the summer of 1966. With the aid of Lisbeth Salandar, a hacker with a total lack of social graces, Blomqvist eventually solves the mystery, and discovers some ugly family secrets.
The book isn't bad, but the plot isn't cleanly executed either. I figured out a major plotpoint fairly early on, and I don't think that Mr. Larsson intended that. There are also subplots that either disappear with no explanation or get resolved too easily. Blomqvist's war with another rotten industrialst could have filled another book, while making this one tighter. The stuff about Blomqvist's lefty magazine, Millenium, could also fill its own book. These different threads aren't as well integrated as they should be. I kept thinking that somehow I had picked up a different book.
There's also too much pointless description. We don't need to know the exact area of every room/house/flat that anyone walks into. Just tell us somebody ate a sandwich; we don't need to know what's on it. There are too many italics, and much of the dialog clunks. A diligent editor would have fixed all this.
Did Larsson hate women? 'Hate' might be too strong a word, but I think he had some issues. You can't write a book purporting to blast violence against women, then write titillating scenes of . . . . violence against women. Scenes whose details will put many readers off, and, I fear, will turn others on. It's too bad that Mr. Larsson isn't here to clear this up.
I also can't shake the feeling that Stieg Larsson's death from a heart attack contributed to the hype surrounding this book. It's a passable first effort, not a great one.
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