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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage
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Rating:  594 reviews
Sales Rank: 22
Media: Paperback
Pages: 608
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 1.2
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 Europemillions of copies sold
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
Its 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.
Its about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriets 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 ageand a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with itwho 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 industrialismand an unexpected connection between themselves.
Its 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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Well-crafted thiller from Stieg Larsson November 7, 2009
Christopher Kell (New York)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is a complex and well-written thriller and crime detection novel rolled into one. The characters are compelling and hold your interest through almost 600 pages of translated text. The one drawback is that some people will have difficulties with the somewhat graphic violence depicted upon people and property.
 Sad commentary on the literary trash that excites people today November 6, 2009
I feel sorry for you...
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Couldn't finish this one. After reading about the brutality toward the poor girl, I stopped and left the book in a hotel room far from home. I feel sorry for the author who seems to know too much about how to violate women (should be interesting to find out why) and the readers who gave such glowing reviews. Does assault and victomization really entertain those sad souls? Whatever happened to nurturing and protecting people? Larsson, you should be ashamed to write such trash.
 sucked me i n! November 6, 2009
story started out slow. was not sure i wanted to co nti nue after the first 20 pages. glad i did. the characters were very real and i could picture them in my minds eye. before long i was totally immersed in the story. i have already bought the girl who played with fire. plan to read it right away.
Loved it November 5, 2009
Ella72 (NY, NY)
I don't usally read murder mysteries, but I very much enjoyed reading this one. The only thing is in the beginning he throws so many names at you and they are Swedish names so that was even more difficult to keep track of. But as the story picks up you get more in to the caracters and really start enjoying the book. I highly recommend the book and don't give up if you get confused with the characters it all eventually falls in to place.
A cure for narcolepsy November 5, 2009
Ashley Mcgibeny
I was awake frantically pressing "Page Forward" on my Kindle till 3am this morning & I'm a fully fledged narcoleptic !! Thank you Mr Larsson for a wonderfully unexpected page turner (or page forwarder or whatever we do nowadays :) )....
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