The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  enlarge Author: Stieg Larsson Publisher: Vintage Category: eBooks This item is no longer available Rating: 1756 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 Similar Items: The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Eat, Pray, Love Shuffled Row The Postcard Killers Editorial Reviews: 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 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. Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 1756 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...352Next » Five stars easily   September 7, 2010 AJ (Washington, DC United States) I'm not going to recap the story for you. In fact, don't read any of the reviews because many of them may contain spoilers. Just read the book. Or listen to the audio version as I did. The narrator is very good. This is a perfect mystery thriller. I don't say that lightly. Read it (or listen to it) now. Spectacular Trilogy   September 6, 2010 K. Donnelly-Miller (Indianapolis, IN United States) At first I was not interested in reading this trilogy because quite frankly, the title of this book (the first in the trilogy) didn't attract me. I thought it was related to tattoos and bikers or something like that. But then I saw that the books (all three) were consistently on the top list for Kindle as well as the NYT Bestseller list. So I downloaded a sample. For those of you who own a Kindle, download samples of the Kindle bestsellers. You will discover why the books are on there! At least for me, downloading the samples has been the best decision most of the time. Anyway, these books were so riveting (aside from the first few chapters in the Dragon Tattoo) that I could hardly put them down. I read all three in 6 days. Give the first few chapters in Dragon Tattoo a chance--they just establish the background of some of the main characters. After the "move to Hedeby" the book takes off! Two things I would say--because the names and locations are Swedish, sometimes it is hard to keep some straight but the author was very good to give some context when he returned to a character or location. I appreciated that writing style. I just wish the author were able to write more books for us to enjoy. I recommend these books the way I recommend John Le Carre. Of course, they are popular fiction, not Charles Dickens, but the writing far surpasses most popular mystery thrillers. Great Book   September 6, 2010 marianne enjoyed this book as much as The Girl Who Kicked Fire and cannot wait to get my "Kindle" to download the third in the series to read that book. Would recommend a quiet time when you can really get into Dragon as it was hard to put down. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo   September 6, 2010 wordsworth36 The characters in this story are well crafted. Easy to visualize and very interesting. The plots and sub-plots were complicated and enticing. It takes a little time to get into the story as the author builds a history of the plots involved but after that is established you can hardly put the book down through the exciting conclusion. Since the storyline is placed in Sweden, it was somewhat difficult to identify many of the countryside, corporate entities, villages, etc. but still the book was one of the best I've read in years. A real thriller. Lisbeth Salanders' the perfect herione!   September 6, 2010 frank (salem,nj) I have read all three books in the Millenium trilogy, and they're all really entertaining, a real page turner! The main character Lisbeth Salander is an A-social 24-year old who has had many problems with the law and society. She has a photographic memory and is a world-class computer hacker. Lisbeth works when she feels like it, at a company called Milton, where she uses her hacking skills without the knowledge of her boss. The other man character Mikael Blomkvist who is the co-owner of millenium magazine, gets hired to do some undercover work to try and figure out what happened to Harriet Vanger, who has been missing and presumed dead for many years. An unlikely relationship happens between the two main characters when Mikael learns of Salanders unique skills, and hires her to help him find the answer. There are many twists and turns and it somewhat turns out to be a classic 'who done it' novel. This book kept me guessing the whole way, and the person who you'd least exspect turns out to be the madman..(Isn't it always that way?) Anyways it was hard to stop reading once I started! The two novels after this one are just as well told..(The second book, the most entertaining..) Which all in all makes this trilogy one of the best ever. I must say when I red the titles of these novels, I thought that they would be 'chick books' or maybe even a teenager book..But that's not the case. Although it may appeal to woman and teens as well, it definatly worked for me..A 24-year-old man.. The one thing to me that I didn't care for was since the author was swedish and the book is translated, the names of the places and many characters are almost impossible to pronounce! I had to use my imagination and use my own created names, which worked fine for me.. I absolutely recommend this book, and the other two in the series. The author of these books passed away from a heart attack just after writing the last in this series, which is a shame because after I finished them, I instantly became a fan of Stieg Larsson! Showing reviews 1-5 of 1756 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...352Next »

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