| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Category: Book
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Rating:  617 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 542
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.8
ISBN: 1847245455
EAN: 9781847245458
Publication Date: July 24, 2008
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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.
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Who dunn it - but more July 31, 2010
M. Hillmann (leicester, england)
This book was highly recommended to me. But initially it promised to disappoint - a standard format murder mystery with a limited number of potential murderers to choose from. Furthermore I could not relate to the characters - the main character, Blomquist, was successfully seduced by a series of beautiful, intelligent women - all the baddies had no redeeming features and the brilliant heroine was totally unsociable.
But the book gripped me. It became more than a who dunn it. It brutally gave the impression of a Swedish society where women abuse, rape and very low levels of conviction rates of the perpetrators prevailed. It alluded to the possibility of the heroine suffering from Asperger's syndrome. It developed more interesting issues like the responsibility of the press and the quality of financial journalism.
But mainly it was a page turner.
 Hard going at first July 31, 2010
library lady
I bought this book ages ago when it first came out and it has been sitting on my bedside table waiting to be read. It is pretty hard going at the beginning and took me at least 100 pages or more to get interested. However, after finishing it I can now see that although a bit tedious it was laying the foundation of the plot. I think the book content could have been halved to make a more punchy and exciting story. It is a clever plot and does keep you guessing as to how the ending will come about, but I'm afraid it hasn't inspired me to read the rest of the trilogy.
 Dull and tiresome........... July 29, 2010
S. Moore (UK)
Dull and tiresome and very oddly structured - the thriller ends with the revelations of who did what and to whom (all of which was tiresome because it was either screamingly obvious or a melodramatic rehash of almost every serial killer/slasher thriller you have ever read) about eighty pages before the end. Those last eighty pages are an agony to read because they are so dull and wrap up a sub-plot which was forgotten about for most of the book: you think to yourself, 'Oh Gawd, we're back to this now and I couldn't care less!'. At least half the book is padding and Lisbeth is essentially Patricia Cornwell's Lucy character only more OTT...I, also, think the book's sexual politics are pretty offensive...Enough!
Once you get past the beginning it's a brilliant book July 28, 2010
Spoonster (UK)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book as a whole. It had a good plot and the writing style suited me personally very well. Although there were quite a few legal terms and a tiny bit of urban slang I didn't know (I spent half an hour staring at all the sentences that contained the word "yuppie" trying to come up with a definition before sighing and looking it up) but once that is cleared up I was fine with the language. The dark parts of the book are seriously dark and rape is prominent throughout so if that is an uncomfortable subject for you then don't read the book, some scenes of rape are brutal yet are necessary for the plot.
The characters themselves are quite intriguing. For a long time the two main characters are separate and so you get to explore them in more detail. I can't exactly map out Mikeal's personality apart from his strong desire for human rights and his love of woman and casual relationships, Of course woman love him, he's blonde! Mikeal is the one who provides most of the humour throughout the novel where as Lisbeth is the more serious side. Lisbeth is a character I adore, she never wines. Ever. Although she is cold and cynical about plenty of things I enjoy seeing things from her point of view; it's different than a normal hero/heroine who tends to veer to the more optimistic side of things. As I mentioned for most of the first part of the book the two main characters never actually meet and I find it slightly annoying since it seems to slow the pace right down since there is two different stories going on.
The other important characters are the Vangers. And there is a lot of them, almost too many. I found myself frequently looking at pg 6 for the Vanger family tree to work out who was who and how they were related to each other, seriously, if you buy the book you're going to look at that page a lot . . . unless you have a photographic memory of course. That would help. A lot.
Originally I found the book a bit hard to read and get into, I had to force myself to keep reading as there is a lot of financial chat at the beginning and it's not something I'm familiar with and you are also bombarded with pages and pages of back story before you move onto the interesting stuff. But once you get there, things get a lot better. The pace quickens and as each new event happens the villain character changes and you really start to love the book.
So, in conclusion I loved this book even though there were some things I really disliked: I'm still not a fan of the Mikeal-Erika . . . Erika's husband thing. It just doesn't make sense to me personally how that can exist quite out in the open but maybe that is just me. It's a good crime novel and I'm thoroughly looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.
Slow to begin with but soon improves. July 28, 2010
Sian
The beginning of this book moves really slowly as the main character-Blomkvist- is stuck in his investigation into a family's past and so the book moves slowly and can be quite frustrating. However, the story does eventually pick up pace and becomes really interesting. This book has a great plot and interesting characters and the only reason I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 was because of the slow beginning and I also thought that the ending was dragged out a bit too long. I would definitely recommend this book along with the other books of the millennium trilogy.
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