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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307454546
Feature: ISBN13: 9780307454546
ISBN: 0307454541
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2009-06-23
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2009-06-23
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Reviews:
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National Bestseller
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's 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 pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
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Summary: Few are as good
Comment: This is one of the best novels I have read in years. The prologue sets the stage for rest of the book and with but a few, slow character building pages, the rest just explodes with exciting reading.
This IS a book you will not put down once you read past the 20% point. The author does an extraordinary job of developing the main characters/suspects of a twisted "successful" family, most living in an isolation. The most unlikely of characters, including the two sleuths, are meticulously developed and brought together in unusual circumstances to solve the insolvable. The mood is set on a freezing and relatively deserted island in Sweden.
I instantly took a liking to his prose and while not pedantic, did have just the right balance for detail allowing for a smooth read.
One of my favorites. Looking forward to #2 and eagerly await #3.
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Summary: The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo
Comment: This was a great read. I plan on reading Larsson's other books in the Millinium series.
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Summary: fascinating
Comment: My initial impression of this book was that it read like a long lost John Irving manuscript. The depth and richness in the development of the Vanger family, Mikael Blomkvist, and Lisbeth Salander reminded me much of his style. Salander, The girl with the dragon tattoo, is hands-down the hippest, edgiest, and simply coolest female character ever created by an author. She trumps even Robbins' Sissy Handshaw in Cowgirls. Salander is a side character who eventually enters into the primary story thread around the middle of the book. So, don't be confused that the title character does not appear much until the middle of the book. She's not the title character in the original Swedish edition which is called "Men Who Hate Women".
The novel has several different stories masterfully layered together; each by itself would make for a solid novel and taken together they form a masterpiece. There are very dark and disturbing themes, that is for sure. And the book is a heady cerebral read, not for those craving an action packed quickly read story. I did become so engaged in the story that I could not put it down and read the last 200 pages in one day. It is difficult to describe the story without including spoilers; suffice it to repeat what is included on the back cover: "...murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue...a complex and atmospheric novel."
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Summary: Can't Get This Book Out Of My Head
Comment: I was fascinated by this book, and can't really explain exactly why. I think I was a little bit enamored with the way Stieg Larsson developed the main characters, and I loved that he created a smart, wily woman with a unique skill set and intuitiveness. As a journalist, I loved the plot line centering around what happens when you dig up a great story that goes bad, and as someone who still secretly wants to be a detective, I loved the way the main character went about solving a decades-old mystery. It was just a great book, and I can't wait to read the next 2 books (and the 3rd if it's ever allowed to be finished and published) that Stieg Larsson wrote before his own mysterious early death.
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Summary: Swedish thriller lives up to the hype
Comment: This book pulls you in from the opening pages, with the anonymous delivery of a rare, pressed flower to an elderly man, Henrik Vanger. He receives a different rare flower every year on his birthday. It turns out this is only one of 3 intermingled stories in the book: The wealthy, powerful, and strange Vanger family, who have wondered about the disappearance of Harriet Vanger some forty years earlier; the journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who's just been convicted of slandering a crooked industrialist and who would like to clear his name but for now just wants some time away from the magazine he part-owns and writes for; and finally Lizbeth Salander, a multi-tattooed and pierced young woman who, while she has difficulty getting close to anyone, nevertheless using all her street smarts and her "investigating skills" can find anything out about anyone.
Yes, the Swedish setting made it a little more challenging at the beginning, but not for long. And the various Vanger family members were hard to keep straight, but the family tree included early in the book took care of that problem too. Sexually speaking, some of the characters were really twisted. But, all in all, a great read.... the sooner I can lay my hands on "The Girl Who Played With Fire", the better.
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