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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Simon Vance
Publisher: Random House Audio
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Rating:  617 reviews
Sales Rank: 8048
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 13
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0307577589
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780307577580
ASIN: 0307577589
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
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An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
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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A compelling read November 23, 2009
Not Miss Havisham
Gritty but.
In spite of its grittiness in places and its in places insufficently worked out characters and plot versus in other places too lengthy descriptions, I was surprisingly compelled by this book.
Would Mikael's life be every man's fanatasy?
I wonder.
Loved Salander...
"Everyone has secrets." November 23, 2009
E. Bukowsky (NY United States)
Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is set mostly in Sweden. The hero is forty-two year old Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist who is convicted of libel and has no plans to appeal. He had been trying to bring down a crooked industrialist but realizes that he has failed miserably. His biggest regret is that the negative publicity surrounding his trial will harm the magazine, "Millennium," of which he is part owner. His only consolation is his ongoing relationship with the editor-in-chief of the publication, Erika Berger, his best friend and occasional lover.
Soon, Blomkvist has another distraction to take his mind off his impending jail sentence. Eighty-two year old Henry Vanger, a wealthy man and former head of his family's vast business empire, hires Mikael to write his biography, but admits that his underlying objective is to find out who murdered his beloved granddaughter, Harriet, thirty-six years earlier. Although Blomkvist has no desire to tackle this very cold case, Vanger makes him an offer that he cannot refuse. Soon, Mikael takes up residence in the remote town where Henrik lives, and the reporter finds out more than he would like to know about the Vanger family's dirty laundry. As he digs deeper, Blomkvist gradually learns the sordid truth about this incredibly dysfunctional clan. His unlikely ally in his inquiries is an emotionally damaged twenty-four year old named Lisbeth Salander, an investigative genius who never lets anyone get too close to her.
Reg Keeland's polished translation from the Swedish makes this book a pleasure to read. Although the plot is overly complicated, it is intriguing and suspenseful. Mikael is a handsome and likeable individual who seems to attract almost every woman he meets. It is fun to follow along as he sifts through hundreds of documents and photographs and interviews persons of interest, looking for answers that have eluded law enforcement professionals for decades. Lisbeth, who has a tattoo of a dragon (among others) and various piercings, is a rebel who is desperately trying to live down her miserable childhood and find her way in a world that has treated her brutally and unfairly.
Although "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" has become an international sensation, it is not without flaws. It is too long and veers uneasily from one subplot to another. The villains are stereotypical psychopaths. By the time the author reaches his long-awaited conclusion, he scrambles to tie up a variety of loose ends, with uneven results. Still, most readers will find themselves caught up in the story's many twists and turns and will be drawn to the immensely appealing Lisbeth and Mikael. Most will want to read more about this mesmerizing pair in "The Girl Who Played with Fire."
 Few are as good November 23, 2009
Howard Butler MD (Lantana, FL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best novels I have read in years. The prologue sets the stage for rest of the book and with but a few, slow character building pages, the rest just explodes with exciting reading.
This IS a book you will not put down once you read past the 20% point. The author does an extraordinary job of developing the main characters/suspects of a twisted "successful" family, most living in an isolation. The most unlikely of characters, including the two sleuths, are meticulously developed and brought together in unusual circumstances to solve the insolvable. The mood is set on a freezing and relatively deserted island in Sweden.
I instantly took a liking to his prose and while not pedantic, did have just the right balance for detail allowing for a smooth read.
One of my favorites. Looking forward to #2 and eagerly await #3.
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo November 23, 2009
E. Farber
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a great read. I plan on reading Larsson's other books in the Millinium series.
fascinating November 22, 2009
Matthew Arnold (Pacific Northwest USA)
My initial impression of this book was that it read like a long lost John Irving manuscript. The depth and richness in the development of the Vanger family, Mikael Blomkvist, and Lisbeth Salander reminded me much of his style. Salander, The girl with the dragon tattoo, is hands-down the hippest, edgiest, and simply coolest female character ever created by an author. She trumps even Robbins' Sissy Handshaw in Cowgirls. Salander is a side character who eventually enters into the primary story thread around the middle of the book. So, don't be confused that the title character does not appear much until the middle of the book. She's not the title character in the original Swedish edition which is called "Men Who Hate Women".
The novel has several different stories masterfully layered together; each by itself would make for a solid novel and taken together they form a masterpiece. There are very dark and disturbing themes, that is for sure. And the book is a heady cerebral read, not for those craving an action packed quickly read story. I did become so engaged in the story that I could not put it down and read the last 200 pages in one day. It is difficult to describe the story without including spoilers; suffice it to repeat what is included on the back cover: "...murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue...a complex and atmospheric novel."
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