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|  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Category: Book
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Rating:  1768 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 600
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307454541
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307454546
ASIN: 0307454541
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
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Fast Paced and Thrilling! May 7, 2009
Jennifer Lawrence (DC Metro)
Mikael Bloomkvist, a Swedish financial journalist, is convicted of committing libel against a powerful and manipulating businessman, Hans-Eric Wennerström. As he awaits the start of his jail sentence, Bloomkvist is approached by Henrik Vanger, an aging industrialist and is hired to investigate the disappearance of Vagner's niece, Harriet. Harriet went missing forty years ago from the family's small island village. Teamed up with Lisbeth Salander, an eccentric and tattooed computer hacker, Bloomkvist begins to delve into the Vanger family history. They uncover a horrid past littered with abuse, lies, and murder. The storyline of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was a little slow at first, but it quickly reveals itself to be an amazing story that any fan of mystery would love. The characters are powerful and the story line, once it picked up, was faced paced and thrilling. Fortunately, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is the first of a Millennium trilogy. Unfortunately,THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (2009 release), and CASTLES IN THE SKY (2010 release) are the last books written before Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004. All three have become international best sellers. I anxiously and impatiently await the release of the rest of the trilogy here in the U.S.
 Amazing is too mild a praise! May 5, 2009
Srini Anumolu (Bangalore, India)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
What can be new about a thriller? Thousands of them get churned out every year and, it seems, the most trashy ones end up on the bestseller lists. Almost all of them are terribly written, have a mediocre plot and have characters that you don't want to spend any time with in real life. And, then, you have a book like this which comes out of nowhere from an author who, alas, is no more. Savor the three books he wrote
Read this book and join the millions who are now fans of thrillers coming out of - Sweden!
Scandinavia thriller May 5, 2009
Reading Nana (Leawood, KS United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Can hardly wait for the next book. This was an interesting, well-written thriller well translated.
 Good book but doesn't match the hype May 4, 2009
Joshua W. Fenton (Goldens Bridge, NY USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was recommended to me by a colleague who said he missed his morning subway stop a few times due to being engrossed in this book. Maybe that led me to go into this with excessive expectations. Anyway, the book takes a while to crank up. While it eventually becomes clear why all the backstory on the protagonists is necessary, the backstory struggled to keep me interested. It wasn't until I had pushed halfway in that I had any inkling of how rapidly the twists would start coming. Some of the challenge is due to the Lisbeth character being quite one dimensional. Larsson makes such an effort to portray her as disaffected and aloof that I had no connection to her at all. Until the ending chapters, she struck me as an automaton present only to advance the story.
I do not read a lot of modern thrillers and crime dramas any more. Blame Turow and Grisham for burning me out in the 1990s. Larsson's tale builds much more slowly than those, but ends with excellent satisfaction. I do plan on reading the second in the trilogy.
Alternately Dull and Disturbing May 4, 2009
Julia Mathewson (Irvine, CA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
The premise is intriguing: journalist/author Stieg Larsson places his main character and alter-ego, financial journalist Carl Mikael Blomkvist, into what would be a worst-case scenario for any reporter: a possibly career-ending conviction for libel. Then, just as Blomkvist is trying to figure out if his career is salvageable, an elderly tycoon named Henrik Vanger steps in with a lucrative offer of employment.
On the face of it, Henrik Vanger would like Blomkvist to write a history of his family which includes many people Henrik hates because they are either notorious Nazis, lazy inebriates, or both. But Henrik also wants Blomkvist to help him solve a cold murder case, and if the fabulous amounts of money he is willing to pay aren't enough of an enticement, he also offers to help Blomkvist defend himself against the presumably false libel charges, which makes this novel both a murder mystery and a revenge saga.
Into this scenario is thrown wild card Lisbeth Salander, a deranged computer hacker who joins forces with Blomkvist, and turns out to be the most interesting character in the book.
The problem with this novel for me was that there are long sections dealing with such fascinating drivel as what Blomkvist ate for lunch that day, punctuated by a few gruesome plot twists.
I would have liked the book better if the man Blomkvist supposedly libeled, Hans-Erik Wennerstrom, had appeared in person in the story, but this character remains behind the scenes the entire time. If the author would have made Wennerstrom more palpable as a menace, spent more time on Lisbeth Salander, and made the more bizarre revelations at the end of the story just a tiny bit more believable, I would have liked the novel a lot better. Also, some lengthy passages were written as conversations which were dull, hard to follow, and did not demonstrate anything interesting enough about the characters to justify the presentation of the information in that way.
What is admirable to me about Stieg Larsson is that he was well-known in Sweden for his work against neo-Nazism to the point that some were suspicious of foul play when he dropped dead of a heart attack at age fifty, leaving behind the unpublished, and possibly unedited, manuscripts for several novels. However, no real-life murder plot was ever uncovered, and his death was ruled to have been due to natural causes.
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