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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  1743 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
ASIN: B0015DROBO
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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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
Product Description
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The 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 pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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 Smart, fun, thriller September 4, 2010
Middleman
What a fun read! The first 150 pages might be perceived as kind of slow with a lot of family names, but hang in there... from then on the pacing is pretty relentless. Love the characters of Blomquist and Salander.... and am looking forward to cracking open Book 2 in the series! Just a shame that the author passed at such a young age...
 mind numbingly slow and boring September 4, 2010
mbendele (boulder co)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm sorry, for some reason everyone is going ga-ga over this book?!?! I found it mind numbingly boring and a bit creepy as far as the relationship btwn the detective and the girl with the dragon tats. (I'm sorry, it's been a while since I read it, but this is how I recall it. Sometimes the overall feeling after a bit of time has passed is the best review of all.) I was forcing myself through it, and will NOT read the rest in the series. Maybe some major artistic license and rewriting will revive the story for the cinema... I would hopw so!
Great series September 3, 2010
jtoblue
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read all 3 of these Stieg Larsson "Milennium" books in about 2 weeks on vacation & highly recommend them. Not only are they well written mysteries involving unusal characters, they are windows into contemporary Sweden - a place which, frankly, I'd never thought alot about. You save the cost of an airline ticket and get to see Stockholm a little like you would if you stayed with friends who live there. (This aspect is really enhanced by seeing the movie - produced in Sweden by Swedes.)
I've recommended the book to others & the most common response has been that Dragon Tattoo is so long and full of alot of snoozy non-action and side plots and relationships. I am mostly writing this to tell any new reader to hang in - it picks up and all 3 books together are one fascinating saga. If you are hooked by Lisbeth & Mikael, you'll be glad you stayed with all 3!
 Hard to read a book and roll your eyes at the same time. September 3, 2010
violet5401
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
First of all, this book was our book club choice for this month. I guess it appealed to us because of its great reviews, the fact that it is the first of a trilogy by a deceased author, and that it is being made into a movie. And the title is a little intriguing. But it didn't live up to my expectations for several reasons.
First, let me offer a word or two of caution: The first 100 pages are dry and tedious and while pertinent to the plot, are just plain BORING unless financial journalism thrills you. So while the prologue was interesting, the first 20% of the book was at times drudgery to suffer through.
Second, the characters were unimaginative and stereotypical. The girl with the dragon tattoo is NOT the main character, nor is she really even the focus of the story. She is just a sidekick- a surly goth chic with a tortured past, a brilliant mind, and a penchant for white collar crime. You know the type. Then you have the protagonist-a 42-year-old skirt chaser with only average skills, intellect and likeability. And even though there is no chemistry at all between them, of course they joylessly hook up. I was mildly entertained by their adventures but never really rooted for either one in particular. If either of them had been killed off, I wouldn't have been too disappointed.
Third, I have to agree with several other reviewers that the detailed way he wrote the rape/incest scenes was unneeded. Ok, we get it! Enough already. Every woman of importance in this book was a victim of rape, physical abuse, and/or incest (or liked S&M)! And I am by no means a prude, but Really, Larsson? I suspect he enjoyed the topic a little too much. According to the excerpt in the back of the book, the second installment has more of the same, but involves Salander as a 13 year old girl. I think I'll pass.
With all this complaining, you may be surprised that I gave it 3 stars. I did enjoy the quest for the missing granddaughter, Harriett, and discovering all the characters of the Vanger family. I also liked his description of the small Swedish town where most of the story took place. And I was satisfied with how all the loose ends came together in the end.
Overall,I liked the book enough to read it on my lunch break at work, but probably not enough to recommend it to someone else or give it as a gift. The chance that I'll read the sequels or watch the movie are pretty slim.
The best of the three September 3, 2010
wspann
Great series. Highly recommended. If/when you see the movies...make sure you read the books first, b/c they don't develop Lisbeth's character fully in the films. The first two movies were very good.
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