| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Category: Book
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Rating:  1777 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 600
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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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 Dragon Tattoo Rocks September 10, 2010
Roslyn J. Fleischer (Santa Monica, CA)
Stieg Larsson is really onto something with the Millennium Series. Best read in years. Terrific characters and plotlines...
 Caffeine, the Real Swedish Mystery ... September 10, 2010
J. S. Altman (Arlington, VA)
Who knew that Swedes loved coffee so much? If we are to believe Stieg Larsson's narrative in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," then Swedes enjoy coffee around the clock ... be it 3 pm or 4 am, they're knocking back a cup of joe and inviting others to join them in over caffeinated bliss. Which, you know, to each their own, it just seems like coffee was the central plot of the book rather than any overarching, suspense filled murder mystery.
I'm usually not one for the mystery or political thriller genre, but I was waiting for several hours in Boston's South Station and decided to purchase it. The glaring neon book jacket was calling to me at the bookstand and I had recently read about the casting show-down as to who would play Lisbeth Salander in the US film adaptation of the book. Would it be Natalie Portman? Emma Watson? Carey Mulligan? I believe the part has now been awarded to an actress named Rooney Mara.
I didn't hate this book but I didn't love it either. Not to regurgitate too many other reviews, but the character of Mikael Blomkvist was definitely hollow. I'm sorry, why do all these women immediately fall in love with him? He doesn't seem to have very many redeeming qualities unless you consider: adultery, narcissism, and bad parenting to be redeeming. He also describes his time spent in jail as something of a holiday. Huh. Interesting. Note to self: if going to do jail time, do it in Sweden.
Larsson spends a lot of time and page space going into excruciating detail about things that really make no difference to the story (ie: what type of equipment someone is using, what its made out of, how much it costs, how heavy it was; what exactly is on someone's sandwich ... never forgetting the coffee of course). These details would be fine if they served to expand the reader's knowledge and understanding of the character, but they don't. I felt like half the narrative was consumed with minute details, cataloguing things that I didn't care about and which added nothing to my experience of the book.
Lisbeth Salander was slightly less hollow and more interesting than Blomkvist. She seemed to be capable of real emotions exhibited through (oh my god!) a reaction that was more than just [shrug] "ok." I felt like the mystery of the book was more about her and what kind of character she was rather than anything Blomkvist was fiddling around with in the hinterlands of the Swedish countryside. That being said, there were moments when I was drawn in to the mystery of the missing girl, Harriet Vanger, but I found the conclusion of that part of the story to be far-fetched and implausible.
I really didn't care about the sub-plot involving Blomkvist and Wennerstrom ... something that is also tied up a little too neatly by the end of the book.
Again, I didn't hate it and found it to be an okay airport/train station/beach read/vacation read. Maybe it was the translation but it felt clunky to me and it lacked substance. Too much telling and not enough showing.
 Do not order from this Company! September 10, 2010
CPAT
I ordered a book on 8/15/10 and did not recieve it. However, my credit card was charged immediately . I sent Knight and Co. 2 emails and never received a reponse. Not good customer service!
ABBA, BJORN BORG, Now SALANDER&BLOMKVIST September 10, 2010
S. A. Cartwright (Wayland, MA USA)
Thanks Sweden! Tack!
Thanks Stieg Larsson, and translator Reg Keeland.
Thumbs up. Terrific beach reading. Very good mystery, and even better character development.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo September 10, 2010
Natasha Campbell (Bronx, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recommend this international bestseller to all who like intellectual crime thrillers, and who want to share Larsson's war against violence and racism.
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