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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307269751
ISBN: 0307269752
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Studio: Knopf
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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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I consider my time to be precious. Any book I feel worth my time is a good one. Larsson's book kept me reading to the end.
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This is probably the best book I have read since The Devil in the White City. I couldn't put it down and it has all the elements I look for in a good book! Mikhael Bloomvist (excuse me if I misspell any names because they are all Swedish) is in a desperate spot and then asked by a wealthy elderly industrialist (Henrik Vanger) to solve a 40 year old mystery around the disappearance of his granddaughter (Harriet Vanger). Mikhael doesn't realize what he bargained for when he agrees. As the story unfolds we start to learn little tidbits of the Vanger family involving secrets, jealousy, hate etc. that is was more intriguing than the Collins family was in the old Dark Shadows tv show.
Eventually, Mikhael needs to call on the services of Salander a punk rockish type of computer hacker who is an entire story all by herself. As Mikhael and Salander start coming up with new clues, bad things happen. Along with the danger of unraveling the mystery, Mikhael faces jail time for a ... Read More
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I had never heard of this novel when I received it, although it has been a bestseller all over Europe. I had a long plane ride from Seattle to Tokyo and needed a long book to get me through it. What a delightful surprise this novel ended up being. I fell in love with the characters, especially Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. I didn't sleep on the plane because I couldn't put the book down. It is filled with scandals, politics, computer hacking, and murder. I am usually good about guessing endings to novels and I was surprised at the ending. I can't wait until the other two in the trilogy are translated into English.
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The middle chunk of this book is a moderately interesting murder mystery thriller. I feel like I've read better mysterys, however. The motivations here are totally concealed and then completely explode to resolution in the space of 100 pages. The interesting part, alas, wraps up 100 pages before the end of the book. The rest is the 'corporate thriller' and is not thrilling. The 100+ pages of dull setup to start this book is not thrilling either. I love the tease on the back, something like, if you get to chapter two you're HOOKED!. Huh? Maybe if you get to chapter 14 you might get engaged.
OK, SPOILER ALERT. Again, why are are thriller masterminds so stupid? This mastermind has a worldwide criminal empire spanning drugs and WEAPONS dealing. He's ostensibly run afoul of international law in coopting aid money to arm hosile commandos or whatever. So his arch-nemesis (worth installing a mole in the organization) is a SWEDISH FINANCIAL JOURNALIST WITH A STAFF OF SIX ... Read More
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As other reviews mentioned, this book catchs you and it does not let you breath until you reach the end. Fortunately, the sequel is already in our bookshops here in Spain and I am looking forward to my girlfriend finishing `the girl who played with fire` to go on reading (it's tempting to steal her the book!). Unfortunately, the author died, and we will just have a trilogy. (Maybe fate wished that: too many sequels could be self-defeating).
The plot is greatly constructed in two parallel thriller stories plus a number of personal stories which are also very interesting to read. I would like to underline two things:
First, the great construction of characters.I am thrilled by Lisbeth Salander, hacker-hero, freak and completely un-adorable. It is a great character. But also Mickael or Henrik Vanger. All have their own contradictions and that makes them very deep and close.
Second the premonitory (?) depiction of the corporate-financial world (and ... Read More
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