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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Rating:  887 reviews
Sales Rank: 10
Media: Paperback
Edition: Trade Paperback Edition
Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 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 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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 I will never see a dragon tattoo the same way again. March 16, 2010
Napoleon Bloom (Los Angeles, CA)
Stieg Larsson's Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a delight to read. With a nod to the translator, Reg Keeland, the pages flow together seamlessly and create an absorbing and fresh style that demands your attention. The characters are remarkable, the plot is suspenseful, and after it's over, you find yourself incapable to stop yourself from reading the first few pages of the sequel that is included with the book.
Larsson's writing is humble, a refreshing break from other best selling authors. The style is straightforward, but Larsson's control of description transports you to a distant world, which doesn't seem that far from reality. The treatment of corporate corruption, sexual assault, and prejudice all combine together, creating a sense of morality that encompasses every aspect of modern day culture without sounding preachy.
For me, this story is an encouraging sign for readers: fiction can be entertaining and brilliant. This one should stay on the charts for years to come.
The Book with the Strange Title March 16, 2010
Chevy Chase Dad (Chevy Chase, MD USA)
I finished this book last month, but wanted to reflect a bit before writing this review. Sure enough, the book really stayed with me, so here I am at my keyboard recommending it to others. What I loved about this book was its multilayered and original (even quirky) plot. This is an unconventional book, and as I was reading along, I wasn't sure where it would go; in fact, I wasn't even sure who the protagonist was. There's a whodunit in here, but that's not really the book's focus or (in my opinion) its strength. Rather, the real pleasure of this book is just letting it carry you along in a journey through some unusual (but still believable) lives. I'm glad I didn't judge this book by its title, which seems just as quirky as everything else in the book (although I suspect the significance of the title may become clearer once I read the second and third books in the series, which I now intend to do). No matter how you feel about tattoos, don't let the title turn you off; this book quickly draws you in and doesn't let you down. And even though this offbeat Swedish thriller is a runaway bestseller, it still makes you feel kind of cool (the way that seeing the movie "Diva" felt back in the 80s).
Very enjoyable read! March 15, 2010
J. Logan (Florida)
I bought this book truthfully not expecting much but wanting something to read. From the first page I enjoyed the book immensely and am looking forward to reading the other two books written by Larsson. I passed the book along to my dad who while an avid reader, tends to be a little pickier than me and he enjoyed the book as well. I thought the plots were well written and believable and the characters were very interesting. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to those who enjoy murder mysteries with a nice touch of suspense.
 Vengeance is hers March 14, 2010
Jay Dickson (Portland, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy is many things: a murder case, a financial intrigue, a family saga, and an (ersatz) feminist revenge fantasy. Its extraordinary popularity is almost certainly due to its partaking of the last category. Larsson's tale dwells uncomfortably on the horrible things that can be accomplished by "Men Who Hate Women" (the transliteration of the work's original Swedish title), and then tries to balance the score by offering elaborate retaliations visited upon the misogynists by the novel's avenging angel, an antisocial young woman named Lisbeth Salander who works as a researcher for a security firm. The novel tries to have it both ways: it offers Old Testament-style atrocities committed against women for us (and the novel's soft hero, Mikhael Blomkvist) to cluck over, and also to titillate us; then it offers Salander's vengeance schemes ostensibly to balance the injustices committed against women but really to titillate us even further. It's like "Inglourious Basterds," but imagined in terms of gender politics. Unfortunately, Salander is not as imaginative a creation as many fans of the book have proposed, and seems all too reminiscent of the many fabulous femmes fatales with attitude and technological know-how who have become archetypes of postmodern espionage stories, from Modesty Blaise to Sydney Bristow to La Femme Nikita; moreover, her willingness to sexually please her partner and only friend Blomkvist without him ever asking complicates any claims some have made that this novel truly champions feminism.
The novel works best in its central section, a complex mystery involving the disappearance of an industrial heiress on her family's private island more than thirty years previous to the main events of the novel: the sinister secrets of the Vanger family make the novel work here as a very gripping and dark family saga. Unfortunately, this plot is book-ended by a subplot involving financial intrigue that almost bored me into giving up the novel initially, and that I couldn't wait to get through in its final one hundred or so pages. The international success of the novel is undeniable, and at the very least the work is worth picking up just to see how Larsson can strike so many chords that resonate with a contemporary readership.
An Australian Joke? March 14, 2010
Australian Reader (Brisbane)
I thoroughly enjoyed Larsson's first novel, however I laughed until my stomach hurt over Blomkvist's visit to Australia. Did he get his research off an Aussie who was having a lend of him? As far as I know, only cattle are run on stations close to Tennant Creek, its too rugged and too hot for sheep. As to the chickens and pigs, there are no commercial chicken farms in the Northern Territory. The only pigs around are dangerous feral monsters that would happily eat any of the chickens that weren't taken by the feral dogs and cats. Most of the locals don't drive jeeps - they prefer helicopters, motor bikes and horses to round up the cattle. The preferred vehicle, at least when I lived there was a Landcruiser. The scene where they are shooting the sheep was just hilarious- and seemed so wrong. There is no mention of working dogs or Aboriginal jackaroos. Blomkvist eats a meal of mutton at a local pub(maybe he had a lamb roast) and drives on a back road to the station)they are pretty much all backroads or the one main road, the Stuart Highway.) Then there was the name of the local area - Muckawucka? (Or was it Wuckawucka- I listened to an audio book so I don't have the text to check.) I may be the ignorant one, but I can't find a place of that name on any map. It just sounds like a joke. I was just waiting for a mention of drop bears to complete the gag.
While this was very amusing, it did impact a little on my appreciation of the novel. From that point, on I wondered about the legitimacy of the details given in the rest of the book. However, I still enjoyed the novel very much and recommend it. And to any Australians who read it, expect a good laugh towards the end.
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