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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 
 enlarge | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Rating:  127 reviews
Sales Rank: 63
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0307269752
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307269751
ASIN: 0307269752
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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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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 Riveting December 4, 2008
P. Wolfe (Pennsylvania)
What a loss and a shame that Stieg Larson has passed on! His talent for keeping one hooked from page to page is extraordinary. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is very well written with intricate twists and unforseen turns and a book I found nearly impossible to put down as soon as I began reading. I was quite impressed and now anxious to read The Girl Who Played With Fire. Highly recommendable!
 I don't like mysteries, but this is an okay read December 3, 2008
chitowngirl0 (CHICAGO - North Sider)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The story plot has been summarized in many reviews so I won't recap. Mysteries and bestsellers and mystery-bestsellers are not my favorite. For me, it is problematic in these two regards: 1) about two-thirds through the book there is no mystery. Some implausible event / occurrence /conversation happens that is there specifically to drive the story forward. I can spot it right away and it takes me out of the story. And, 2) the villains are the villains. No subtlety, no subtext.
This book is predictable in that fashion. One more thing, it feels a little bit 'dated' because it's 2002 or perhaps that's the translation.
Still, in spite of those detractions, it's a pretty entertaining read with a definite has narrative drive. There are some interesting tidbits about Scandinavian society, misogyny, corporate evil. Read it for that if not the mystery part.
There are two mysteries that are my gold standard in that each was completely entertaining from page 1 to the end: Smillas Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg and Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss. If you've read either of these two books and agree that those are 5 star, then this would rank as a 3 star.
Stieg Larsson's untimely death at age 50 in 2004 is a tragedy December 3, 2008
Andy Orrock (Dallas, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I see laments on these pages that "I wish the next one was coming out sooner." Well, I was so fired up by the enthralling "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" that I went to Amazon UK and ordered The Girl Who Played with Fire there. That way, I don't have to wait six months. It's out mid-January 2009. [Rubs hands together!]
About the book, what can I say that others haven't: Stieg Larsson's untimely death at age 50 in 2004 is a tragedy. His manifest talent fairly explodes on these pages. Every aspect of his background - financial journalist, crusader of violence against women, fervent exposer of Nazism, a person with a deep understanding of IT and data security - combines on these pages to make a gripping read that you can't put down. 465 pages never went by so fast.
A Book You Can't Put Down December 2, 2008
Charlotte A. Meiter
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book and only wish the next one was coming out sooner. It is a shame that the author died so young. You couldn't wait to find out what was next and the characters were so well described that you felt you knew them. I would recommend this book to anyone.
A crime novel that isn't just your ordinary pulp fiction. December 1, 2008
Merlin (Readalot, US of A)
Lots of interesting characters and plot developments and twists with a roller coaster ride end that while quite satisfying also leaves the reader thirsty for more.
Tragically for him and his readers the author has passed away before seeing his work published.
Fortunately for us readers there are still two more books to come in this trilogy.
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