| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage
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Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307454541
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307454546
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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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 A well thought out read! March 20, 2010
Ron
I enjoyed this book from start to finish due to the use of rich characterization, simple problems with not so simple answers, and fantastic pacing. It has a very intelligent tone with enough polar sexuality woven in to illustrate several variations of what sex can be (good, bad, evil, etc.), and I found that intriguing. If you have already read the book, the movie is already out on DVD and can be imported. Also, I was very much into the movie "Randomocity", which has some similar tones to Stieg Larsson's novel dealing with female abuse and the evils of it. Check that out on Amazon if you haven't already too!
 The Tattoed Lady Clashes with the Serial Killer March 20, 2010
John F. Rooney
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is part missing girl mystery, part financial shenanigans investigative journalism expose, part serial killer thriller, part computer geekery and hacker insider dope, and part exploration of the way a dysfunctional woman can function highly efficiently when focused. Take an absorbing, magnetic story and mix in a lot of intrigue with engrossing characters and you've got a 590 page novel that clips along without boring its readers.
Mikael is an investigative financial reporter who is part owner of the magazine Millennium. He writes and prints an exegesis about the crooked dealings of a money titan named Wennerstrom. Unfortunately the titan sues him for libel, Mikael loses, and gets a ninety-day jail sentence and a fine. Fortunately he gets hired by eighty-two-year-old Henrik Vanger to write a family history but especially to look into the disappearance of his grandniece Harriet Vanger some forty years before. Henrik wants to know why the family murdered her and why they have been trying to drive him insane with a yearly gift of a single flower on his birthday.
Lisbeth Salander, the fascinating title character, is a misfit, a loner, a hippie, an avenger, and a hacker who joins Blomkvist in an investigation that puts both of them in great physical danger. She wouldn't want you to feel sorry for her (she could care less what other people thimk of her), but you do develop an affinity for her.
This is the third book the Millennium trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson who died at the age of fifty in 2004. Parts of the book are very suspenseful, melodramatic and action-packed, but it is the story itself, the author's way of telling you the story, and the pull of the characters that will hold your interest. The book has an excellent plot, well-narrated with vivid hypnotic characters. It gets more exciting as it rolls along and pulls you in. It's better when it's dealing with the machinations of the dysfunctional Vanger family on their own island, than it is when dealing with the Wennerstrom financial hoopla in the last section.
It's a long slog but well worth it with graphic serial killer stuff in addition to the missing girl story. I don't think I'm ready for the other two books in the series yet but will read them eventually.
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