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Author:
Stieg Larsson
By Vintage
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $5.29
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 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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- ISBN13: 9780307454546
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description
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 pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
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
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Sorry I Read It, 2010-03-11
It's too bad that Stieg Larsson could not have believed in his own talents enough to avoid appealing to the basest of human instincts to sell books. I bought Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to read for book club. But I'm sorry I spent one penny on it or read one word. Men's brutality to women is not a subject that I care to read about. How could the author look his own mother in the face after conceiving and writing of such brutality. Not that the entire book is trash. There is worthy material there, enough to keep me reading beyond the point where I should have bailed out. But I did bail out long before the end and only wish I had done so sooner.
Terrible, 2010-03-11
I am 160 pages in at the moment, but just can't go any further. Based on what's happened so far I should be about 30 pages in. A boring, cliche-ridden book that creates no suspense and needs a good hard edit. I get more excitement from reading Spot's First Walk with my daughter for the 100th time.
Great read, 2010-03-08
Finally I was able to land my hands on a good thriller and once I finished this book I bought its sequel (girl who played with fire). Full credits to the author. I am taking away one star because at times it gets verbose (so you need to be know how to skim) and that the last 50 pages of the book are really a stretch since the mystery was already solved.
Incredible detail, 2010-03-10
The depth and detail in the book is exceptional. The mystery was so well developed and the various angles were linked. Flowing from beginning to end without that typical brief wrap up in the last few chapters. Well written and very interesting.
a good crime thriller, but that's it, 2010-03-08
For some reason, a number of people have hyped "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" as anything more than a thriller, as some book that tackles broad ideas regarding society. While Larsson does present a fairly cynical view of the world, I'm not sure that there's any great social commentary to be made. In the end, this is just a crime thriller. Don't expect Tolstoyian philosophical details, no matter how some try to present it.
As far as the crime thriller part goes, it's fairly good. It's hurt by the lead character (at least in terms of page time) being a rather dislikable and dishonorable character. The title character (who serves more of a supporting role in terms of page time) is a far more compelling and interesting one, although Larsson seems to take pleasure in making her life as rough as possible.
The resolution to the main mystery comes a bit early; the resolution to the lead character's predicament is achieved later but in a far less satisfying manner.
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