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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  1748 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
ASIN: B0015DROBO
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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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 These are among the best books I have ever read September 5, 2010
Violet Penumbra (Wrentham, MA United States)
I do NOT want these people to leave my world. PLEASE have mercy on us readers and publish the 4th book!!! A total page turner. And what a genius Larsson is! He writes about horrible stuff in a palatable way without watering it down.
Left Me Wanting So Much More... September 5, 2010
Muse43 (NC)
Shopping for books to read during a lull, I happened to see this book and it immediately caught my attention. So I purchased the book with the intent on reading it immediately, but found myself continuing to put it off for other things.
Finally, I cracked it open and was unable to put the book down- read it during breakfast, lunch and supper and anytime there was time to spare. Immersion was an understatement.
Stieg Larsson created characters that you can believe are real- even Lisbeth. Tough, to the point and meaner than a rattlesnake when backed into a corner, she is the anti-hero of this masterful trilogy. Sure, she does things the reader doesn't like, somehow though, I couldn't help but become thoroughly and utterly immersed in her story. I cheered for her, cried for her, laughed at her, and wanted everything to magically be better for her at the end.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage), the second in the trilogy, is equally adictive. I purchased the Kindle versions of these books and dreaded having to recharge my iTouch to continue reading. Am so glad that these books came into my life- some parts are hard to read and difficult to get through, however, it is one of the best Noir type books ever written.
Every character in the book is someone you love completely or hate with a purple passion- but each character is 100% believable and completely developed. The plot is certainly well thought out and stays on track despite the subplots and everything comes full circle in the final book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Each book was more difficult to put down than the last and I wish there was a whole bookcase full of these Stieg Larsson books! Now that I am through, I don't know what else to read.
I can't believe Stieg Larsson is gone, never to write another wonderful trilogy such as these.
Book in excellent condition September 5, 2010
Kiki (Tennessee)
My book was shipped faster than expected. Would definitely order from this merchant again.
compulsive -the best reader. September 5, 2010
monty (L.A)
As everbody knows by now this series is compelling /unputdownable. I got this abridged version and it is brilliantly read. The characters were really well delineated. However going on to to book 2 i wanted the unabridged version because i had enjoyed the first so much. It's a different reader and he's not so good. Some of his accents are patronizingly appauling. I got the unabridged version of the third book with yet another reader and he's also not so good. Why didn't they stick with the first reader, Martin weenier, for the unabridged versions. He was easily the best reader and it is incredibly frustrating that the unabridged readings diminish in quality as the story progresses.
Smart, fun, thriller September 4, 2010
Middleman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a fun read! The first 150 pages might be perceived as kind of slow with a lot of family names, but hang in there... from then on the pacing is pretty relentless. Love the characters of Blomquist and Salander.... and am looking forward to cracking open Book 2 in the series! Just a shame that the author passed at such a young age...
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