The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) |
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| Title: | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) |
| Author: | Stieg Larsson
Reg Keeland (Translator) |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 23 June, 2009 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0307454541 / 9780307454546 |
| List Price: | $14.95 |
| You Save: | $9.45 |
| Amazon Price: | $5.50 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
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:
• 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
• The Tattoed Lady Clashes With The Serial Killer
20 March, 2010
"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.
- Amazon Customer Review
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