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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Category: Book
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Rating:  1764 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
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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 accidental best-seller September 8, 2010
Edgar Mcgarvey (Fall River, MA USA)
Not even in the league with other Scandinavian mysteries. I'm thinking of the Wallender series and, even more, of Joe Nesbo's Harry Hole adventures. This is just a collage of adolescent clichés, post-modern pseudo intellectual rubbish that is eventually saved by a compelling set of good guys who do very little work to solve the mystery. To really get into the book you need to believe that justice ='s a female Scandinavian superhero and a lot of bumbling and totally unbelievable Swedish folk who are just too good to be true.
 Men Who Hate Women September 7, 2010
Rick Goodner (Texas United States)
The one star is for the Men Who Hate Women the books get 5 starts. Stieg Larsson the writer of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and 2 other books in the same mode died without a will. His father and brother who it is said Stieg was estranged from got the whole 11 million estate. Stieg had a life mate for the last 30 years who still has her love for Stieg but that's all Papa and Bubba got the money and home. Read the books they are great but get them from the library give no money to that family or the Gov that is helping to abuse his lover. The movies suck big time they are rewrites and nothing like the book boycott them. Sties's lover is being abused as I said by his family and the Law very much as Lisabeth was in his books the Swedish title was "Men Who Hate Women" how apropos. Don't buy the books and don't see the movies.
why??????? September 7, 2010
P. Nylen (Saint Paul, MN)
Why the fuss over this standard, boring fiction? Why was it translated into English when you could just as easily grab a Clive Cussler and find the same set of characters: a protagonist who, besides his day job, is mostly moderate in every way and the objectified, horribly-portrayed cast of disposable female characters?
Plainly said: it's airport garbage fiction.
Issues September 7, 2010
Alec
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am told that the person I shipped this book to did not receive it.
whoa, whoa, whoa... September 7, 2010
MarketMaster (Georgia)
easy now... 'best book of the year'? 'literary masterpiece'?
not so fast. i enjoyed the read and it's got some pretty well developed parts of the story, but it is what it is. and it's no masterpiece. it seems these days that works featuring extreme violence, especially those of a sexual nature get such grandiose reviews. still, lisabeth is an intriguing character and i look forward to reading the next in the series.
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