Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307269751
Edition: 1st American
Format: Deckle Edge
ISBN: 0307269752
Item Dimensions: 150952182682
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.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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: - Life is too short ....
... to waste on reading this turgid book. I was bored by the poorly drawn characters - in fact I was so bored I only read half of it. The author made no attempt to draw the reader into his book - although that might have been the fault of the wooden translation - I felt no desire to find out more about the plot or characters. But then so many of my friends have almost raved over it. I just don't understand this at all. Oh well, meat and poison, as the saying goes but as far as I'm concerned this ... Read More

Rating: - Best of the three!
Maybe it's just because it's the first, but this one stands alone. The other two seem more interdependent. Addictive.

Rating: - Lives up to the hype!
I really did not know what this book was about - I just knew enough people in Europe and America thought it was good enough to be made into a movie (in BOTH places!). It's a bit slow in the beginning, but I always expect that in books (they do need to give us some necessary background). But please keep reading, I swear, you will not be able to put it down!

Rating: - I'm Not Getting It
If there is such a thing as a woman's novel, then this must be the antithesis-- a men's novel. The main character Mikael Blomkvist, has no emotional life, no self-reflection, no growth as a character, and doesn't have deep feelings or cares. The mystery at the center of the book is the only thing preventing him from being a cardboard figure (like all of the Vangers, characters in the novel who are not developed fully). All of his needs are gratified. His sexual conquests include every woman character ... Read More

Rating: - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This book was compelling. I was eager to get back to reading it. Interesting to see the irony in Sweden's liberal sex attitude when many women are abused.