The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 
|  | | | 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: | $24.95 | | You Save: | $8.48 | | Amazon Price: | $16.47 | |
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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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• It Takes Over 300 Pages For The First Real Clue Into The Murder 01 July, 2009
Which for me, is a little too long, how about two hundred pages too long. The investigation into the murder, which is the primary plot line, does not really start until well after 300 pages into the boook. These are some intersting things that happen before that point, but for a murder mystery to take that long for the first real clue to come along, is, in my humble opinion, too long.
The main character seems not too interested to dointg any investigating. And so he does not really do any. He does other stuff, like bed women, and eat, and walk, and go to jail, and talk a lot, but he does very little investigating. The longer I got into the book, the more I wondered when any kind of progress would be made in the investigation, and what realy was the point of the 300 page prolouge.
There is a good second lead character, in fact, the book would be much better with just her doing the investigation. As an editor, I would have dumped the boring, meandering, main character, and just developed the main story around the female investigator. Her parts are interesting. His are not so much.
There is also a second plot line involving corporate bad guys. I would have trimmed most of this out too, it adds little, and drags down the main plot line. And is what much of the not so riveting first 300 pages are about.
The book is interesting overall, and very good in parts, and for the most part I enjoyed reading it. But it is also tedious in parts too.
At times the english translation is poor, which for a major book publisher, is quite surprisng.
I recommend it, but with only thee stars
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3DWJ661QI38T0
• "i Want You To Find Out Who In The Family Murdered Harriet,... 30 June, 2009
...and who since then has spent almost forty years trying to drive me insane." If this phrase does not capture your interest and imagination, then I guess this may not be the book for you. However, I believe most people will be eager to know more about this fascinating story. An old and powerful man tormented by his past that comes back every year to haunt him on his birthday in the manner of a flower delivered by post, a journalist that fights against corruption in an uphill battle, and one of the most fascinating female characters I have ever encountered are at the center of this plot.
The author weaves together one of the most compelling mystery plots I have read in a while, and if that wasn't enough, he blends in the portraits of wonderful characters, and brings to the forefront the topic of abuse and prejudice in Sweden. The fact that he could bring together all these elements without the story becoming slow or boring at any point is commendable, and, on the contrary, this novel reads like a fast-paced thriller.
The complex relationships among characters, and the multitude of suspects / participants in the main plot and subplots are one of the factors that make this a great book. Among these characters, we find Lisbeth Salander, who is the girl with the dragon tattoo, and who in my opinion is one of the greatest characters in literature, on par with the likes of Rodion Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment or Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Salander is a young woman of fragile complexion, who has been assigned a guardian by the state due to her inability to take care of herself as a consequence of a diminished mental capacity. However, we soon realize that this is far from the truth, since she is way smarter than people think, and an excellent investigator and hacker. Her asocial characteristics clash with her desire to have people show interest in her. Having this character as central in the novel takes this work from the very good read to the outstanding level!
There is only one reason in my mind not to read this book; if you are extremely bothered by violence against women, then you may want to stay away. The descriptions are fairly graphic, and they may turn some people off. If that is not your case, then I recommend this novel without any reservations, you are in for a real treat.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2RDR5G65D9H84
• A Real Page -turner... 01 July, 2009
I enjoyed this book. I thought it was intriguing and a great read. I recommend it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1UH323VY8TKCK
• Enraptured But 29 June, 2009
Fantastic characters, terrific plot, but the writing was choppy. Both the protagonist and his sidekick, the woman of the title, were extremely interesting characters, and I found myself needing to know the answer to the mystery (ies). I suppose that is the point of a mystery novel, so job well done.
However, this book was recommended to me without qualification, and that does not make sense to me. In addition to some short, awkward and simplistic constructions, the misuse of the word "parody" is glaring. If parody has some obscure meaning that no one has used in 100 years, whatever. A parody should be somewhat humorous, or satiric, and this use does not make the cut.
Also, without spoiling, I will say the explanation of the flower does not make sense either. And if another protagonist of a thriller is a writer, I will scream out loud. It's a page turner, but with some flaws.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1M8M3XLKZJ8BF
• Fascinating 30 June, 2009
The Girl with ... is well-written. The two story lines are nicely separated, although I found the financial line a bit confusing. Some scenes in the book describe disturbing sexual images. The "murder mystery" is particularly fascinating. The book provides an opportunity to learn some about the Swedish people and the geography of the country.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3D7G5T0BX5K9L
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