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- ISBN13: 9780307454546
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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.
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 CallananSimilar Products
Customer Reviews
2010-10-30
By Cuisinsky
Finally, a trilogy for twerpy skinny young girls, just the type I dated when I was in the market once upon a time.
I liked this trilogy for thee main reasons. It was a totally unique concept for me to read a book about a troubled young girl, particularly one in another country. Uniqueness is a big draw with me. Second, it was a totally unique story line, once again making it a hit with me. Finally, once I was able to digest the long list of characters in each book, particularly in Tattoo, I was able to power read them all in a variety of settings requiring more or less concentration. The stories hung together well without many puzzling unexplained gaps. I also saw the Tattoo movie and liked it a lot, even though it was not in English.
Too bad Steig died. I can't believe that his bloodsuckers will come up with anything good that was supposedly found on his computer.
2010-10-30
By Kingsley
After finishing this book I read the one and two star ratings. I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that some people like to "hear themselves think" but it seems to me that if they hated the book as much as they seem to, they could and should have thrown the damn thing away! Yet strangely they took valuable time to be caustic. One wonders...
Yes, there are some passages that are redundant (like coffee making) and some translation problems, but over all this BOOK IS BRILLIANT, EXCITING, AND VERY VERY READABLE!
I finish by saying that I originally decided to read the book with reservations, I usually do not read novels with this type of hype and promotion. But I did it, and very glad that I did. I will certainly read the next two, and probably be sorry there will be no more.
2010-10-30
By gardener97 (Atlanta)
I weep that there will be no more books from this creative and brilliant mind! Buy all three, read all three and re-read all three.
2010-10-30
By Julie A. Smith (Cleveland, Ohio United States)
This book is a cross between mystery/suspense/drama. Lisbeth is an unusual sort of private investigator who is originally enlisted by her boss to look up information on Mikael Blomkvist, then just as quickly told that there's no need to continue the investigation. She, however, has her interest piqued and continues the investigation on her own.
Mikael Blomkvist is the part-owner, publisher, and journalist of a respected financial magazine who is apparently fed a false story by an old friend. When he publishes the story, he is sued for libel by the subject of the story .. and loses, which means he will be spending some time in jail. To preserve the reputation of the magazine, he steps down from his post. He receives a mysterious offer (through the same attorney who originally hired Lisbeth's firm to run a background check on HIM [although he doesn't find THIS out until much later]) from a millionaire industrialist (Henrik Vanger) to look into the matter of his granddaughter Harriet's disappearance for a year. The best thing - the industrialist's offer to give him the real dirt on the financial "guru" who sued him for libel when the year is up.
For over 30 years, Henrik has been receiving a yearly 'gift' - a pressed, framed flower - an apparent mockery of the flowers that he used to receive as gifts from his granddaughter prior to her disappearance. The police haven't been able to make any progress into the case, although Morrell, the original detective in charge, has never been able to stop investigating.
That's the bare bones plot. But the novel is so much more.
We start out with a scene of a young girl who is being held captive by someone.
We read in turn about Lisbeth and Mikael. It is a testament to the well-developed characters that as I read about one, I forgot about the other until the narrative came back to them.
There is intrigue, and old stories, and a serial killer, and a sadist or two, and mystery, and incest, and familial rivalry and strife, and a book that makes you want to keep turning pages to see what is going to happen next.
If you haven't read it yet .. READ it. Seriously.
Sensitive reader: There are references to sex, profanity, and violent scenes.
QUOTES:
Then, as she was on the threshold of her teenage years, All The Evil happened, which she did not want to think about. The last outburst set the pattern and prompted a review of the casebook entries from elementary school. After that she was considered to be leaglly . . . well, crazy. A freak. Salander had never needed any documents to know that she was different.
"You see. You've already started to adapt to the submission principle. I hold your life in my hands, Mikael. You know that I can dispatch you at any second. You pleaded with me to improve your quality of life, and you did so by using reason and a little good manners. And you were rewarded."
"The fact is, I've never worked with such a brilliant researcher. OK, I know you're a hacker and hang out in suspect circles in which you can set up an illegal wiretap in London in twenty-four hours, but you get results."
2010-10-30
By Ron Hollis (Atlanta, GA)
Ok..I don't read much fiction, but was intrigued by the high ratings and publicity for this book. Spoke to a lady at a bar who raved about the book. Well, I give it 3 stars. it is not all that well written, the story is forced, the technical aspects of hacking (my primary interest) were limited, and the foreign environment (cities, slang, etc) made it a overall mediocre read. if you like good fiction: Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel is 5 Stars
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