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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage
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Rating:  611 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 608
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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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 Swedish thriller lives up to the hype November 22, 2009
C. Shelnutt (JC, TN)
This book pulls you in from the opening pages, with the anonymous delivery of a rare, pressed flower to an elderly man, Henrik Vanger. He receives a different rare flower every year on his birthday. It turns out this is only one of 3 intermingled stories in the book: The wealthy, powerful, and strange Vanger family, who have wondered about the disappearance of Harriet Vanger some forty years earlier; the journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who's just been convicted of slandering a crooked industrialist and who would like to clear his name but for now just wants some time away from the magazine he part-owns and writes for; and finally Lizbeth Salander, a multi-tattooed and pierced young woman who, while she has difficulty getting close to anyone, nevertheless using all her street smarts and her "investigating skills" can find anything out about anyone.
Yes, the Swedish setting made it a little more challenging at the beginning, but not for long. And the various Vanger family members were hard to keep straight, but the family tree included early in the book took care of that problem too. Sexually speaking, some of the characters were really twisted. But, all in all, a great read.... the sooner I can lay my hands on "The Girl Who Played With Fire", the better.
Left me wanting more... November 20, 2009
Grace (Texas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Downloaded the Kindle Book on a whim, after seeing it all over the airport bookstores. The first chapter was slow building with Swedish references, which were a little difficult to follow. A wiki overview of Sweden made the story much more interesting for me. After the first chapter I was hooked and could not put the book down.
The story was fresh, with unexpected twists and a tough as nails heroine who keeps the male characters on their toes. Can't wait to read the next book.
 Scooby Doo - Where are you? November 20, 2009
Emily G.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The main mystery reminded me of a Scooby Doo episode - from the heroes putting together tenuous clues to the villain spilling all his secrets before he kills the hero to the ridiculous saving of the hero's life. I almost expected the villain to yell "And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you pesky kids!" as he sped away.
The secondary mystery was convoluted and boring. The characters are so flat and the writing is so bad that I don't have any interest in the cliffhanger third mystery. Much of the story is descriptive where it should have been dialog. For example:
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For five minutes they discussed Blomkvist's shortcomings in the most irritating terms. Blomkvist leaned back and pretended to be insulted, but he frowned when Berger made some cryptic remarks that might allude to his failings as a journalist but might also have applied to sexual prowess.
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If the author cannot come up with any witty "cryptic remarks", then maybe that paragraph doesn't belong in the book.
If the book had a good editing, some story lines and characters dropped, and the violent sex turned down, it could have been a passable Grisham clone. As it is, it was a very disappointing book and not the "literary masterpiece" the critics are raving about.
 hard going November 19, 2009
Prudence W. Kent (Bay Area, Ca.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had heard so much about this book that I couldn't wait to read it. I did think it was interesting, very different and did hold my interest. However, I also thought it was hard going and a bit tedious at times to get through.
A very solid addition to the genre November 19, 2009
Librum (CA, USA)
TGWTDT is, as one would hope, a fast and entertaining read, chock-full of suspense and unexpected twists. It is a thoughtful procedural with a well-developed -- and, for the most part, credible -- plot-line, and solid characters. I am rarely moved to read books straight through (I generally prefer dipping into several at a time). TGWTDT had me hooked from start to finish. One star docked for some instances of unnecessary sensationalism and a few less-than-fully-credible plot devices. Though I did roll my eyes from time to time as I read TGWTDT, for the most part I found it absorbing. Given the subject matter at the core of Larsson's novels, I'm not sure I 'look forward' to reading his other two, exactly, but I do plan on reading them for sure.
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