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.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






Rating: - I don't like mysteries, but this is an okay read
The story plot has been summarized in many reviews so I won't recap. Mysteries and bestsellers and mystery-bestsellers are not my favorite. For me, it is problematic in these two regards: 1) about two-thirds through the book there is no mystery. Some implausible event / occurrence /conversation happens that is there specifically to drive the story forward. I can spot it right away and it takes me out of the story. And, 2) the villains are the villains. No subtlety, no subtext.

This ... Read More

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Rating: - Stieg Larsson's untimely death at age 50 in 2004 is a tragedy
I see laments on these pages that "I wish the next one was coming out sooner." Well, I was so fired up by the enthralling "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" that I went to Amazon UK and ordered The Girl Who Played with Fire there. That way, I don't have to wait six months. It's out mid-January 2009. [Rubs hands together!]

About the book, what can I say that others haven't: Stieg Larsson's untimely death at age 50 in 2004 is a tragedy. His manifest talent fairly explodes on these pages. ... Read More

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Rating: - A Book You Can't Put Down
I loved this book and only wish the next one was coming out sooner. It is a shame that the author died so young. You couldn't wait to find out what was next and the characters were so well described that you felt you knew them. I would recommend this book to anyone.

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Rating: - A crime novel that isn't just your ordinary pulp fiction.
Lots of interesting characters and plot developments and twists with a roller coaster ride end that while quite satisfying also leaves the reader thirsty for more.

Tragically for him and his readers the author has passed away before seeing his work published.

Fortunately for us readers there are still two more books to come in this trilogy.

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Rating: - heartbroken
The best book in ages. Tragedy that he is gone: blessing that there are a few more. Heart is broken over ending: must repair!!!!!!!!

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