The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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| Title: | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| Author: | Stieg Larsson
Reg Keeland (Translator) |
| Publisher: | Knopf |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 16 September, 2008 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0307269752 / 9780307269751 |
| List Price: | $25.95 |
| You Save: | $8.82 |
| Amazon Price: | $17.13 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
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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Customer Reviews:
• Excessive And Gruesome Violence Against Women
19 March, 2010
Larsson's descriptions of the many acts of violence against women (mostly sexual) were so creepily detailed they bordered on the fetishistic. His descriptions of violence towards men were spare. I barely made it through the book, but I did finish it, the rest of the story was interesting and well-paced. Then I read a little bit of the excerpt of Book 2 included in my edition and it appeared to be a long description of the heroine being raped when she was 13. More of the same, no thank you.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Turn For The Worse
20 March, 2010
I'm a reader, not a writer, so I'm not going to write a tome of analysis here. The main thing is while I was able to relate to the concept of an introverted, anti-social 90-lb female borderline-autistic genius becoming a professional hacker and investigative researcher, I was not able to extend that to a person who submits herself willingly to abuse.
The book is almost pat in its Corporate Evil vs Independent Righteousness.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Creative And Intriguing Novel
20 March, 2010
Mikael Blomkvist, a Swedish financial journalist, is convicted of libeling a wealthy financial magnate. Before he spends jail time, he receives an offer from someone who promises to help him exact revenge on the wealthy man who has caused his downfall. In return Mikael is asked to spend a year finding out the truth behind the disappearance of the man's granddaughter. Along the way, Mikael is aided in his search by a quirky, anti-social woman who bears a dragon tattoo on her arm. This is an interesting book with a clever plot and memorable characters.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Don't Waste Your Time...
20 March, 2010
I did not like this book. VERY hard to comprehend with the $, business and twisted lingo weaved throughout the entire book. Very scary if this brutality against women was the author's reality. Liked nothing about this book. Pick up something else for a good read.
- Amazon Customer Review
• I Wanted A Mystery.
20 March, 2010
i got a lot of casual sex, casual cheating, casual adultery. sexual amorality.
i'll cheat on my wife with you while you cheat on your husband with me.
and they'll just have to accept it.
sex with a girl half his age who "looks 15".
and this is the hero. repugnant.
it reads like a 14 year old boy's bad sexual fantasy. juvenile.
not my cup of tea.
- Amazon Customer Review
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