The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

, #1

Paperback, 465 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Viking Canada.

ISBN:
978-0-670-06901-9
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OCLC Number:
227508488

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(372 reviews)

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger which took place forty years ago.

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Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

The story was fantastic, but I'm not a fan of Larsson's writing style. Too often Mikael would walk into a room and Larsson would plainly list off every piece of junk within view regardless of it's importance to the story. That said, I enjoyed the story enough that I plan on reading the sequel.

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

Surprised me in a few ways. I didn't know it takes place in Sweden, and I generally like unfamiliar settings, especially those that produced the ancestors of my spouse. I sort of knew to expect a mystery plot, and that is definitely delivered, but it's secondary to a finance plot that provides a good balance. Rounds out with good, strong characters.

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

OK, I've watched this book to suddenly show up on the bookstore shelf, quickly occupy the Most Popular category and then slowly sunset into the bargain bin. At which point I stopped dragging my feet and actually read it.

On the positive side, the book is very readable, the plot realistic enough, the writing style robust and engaging. If you want a crime novel that doesn't make you feel an idiot after you've read it, this one fits the bill pretty well.

(SPOILERS AHEAD!!!)

The book is not perfect though. The characters, so realistic and believable for the most of the narration go haywire toward the end. The main protagonist, an Aspberger syndrome afflicted girl with history of abuse and uncanny investigative skills turns into a super-hacker easily penetrating any computer system, manipulating major financials transactions and camouflaging as other people with the ease that should make James Bond cringe …

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

I was pleasantly surprised by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

I'm usually a bit weary of runaway best sellers.

I'm also not much into punk culture, but the book wasn't about the Girl, it had the Girl in it and she wasn't just some bitchy punk.

I thought the epilogue was way too long, but perhaps it's setting up the scene for the next book in the trilogy.

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

This book has a very engaging story: Solving the 40 year old mysterious disappearance of Harriet Vanger. Mikael Blomkvist is hired to try to solve it.

I enjoyed the reading, but it was not what I was expecting.

Some of the characters are a walking contradiction on ethics and morals; acting as if only the public life was subject to it. Then we have Lisbeth Salander,the smartest, bad est, unnerdy, anarchic, hacker. I found the authors obsession with her tattoos and piercings annoying, not to mention the occasional reference to her slim, boyishly body; we get it, she's different - MOVE ON!

In my opinion some of the violence was unnecessarily graphic and some was plainly unnecessary - it didn't really add to the story to know all the details of a raping and the details on the revenge. I don't think that adds to the repulsion that the reader …

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

I first tried to read this book in 2010 right away when I got it. I just couldn't get much into it, but that summer I also had zero non-dissertation related reading time, so that probably contributed to not getting through a 644 page book.

My husband wants to see the American movie, and I'm a person who prefers to read the book a movie is based on before seeing the movie, if possible. The eminent release of said movie bumped this book back up to the top of Mt. TBR. I read it over few days in December 2011. Amazing what having a few hours to read (and staying up too late with the luxury of just reading) will do.

I'm not a crime fiction reader. I like crime fiction with actual science in it because I'm a scientist and I often know just enough about most of the …

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

This was the vacation of disappointing reading material. There's little redeeming about the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Perhaps the best thing I have to say about it is that it's fast paced, and once you actually get to the mystery, it's a little compelling to at least see what comes of it.

That being said, there's a lot not to like. Let's start with the fact that absolutely no progress is made on the central mystery until page 294, when the character all of a sudden announces that he's found three clues. What happens until then? Lots of backstory on totally extraneous materials and three very explicit sexual assaults that have literally nothing to do with the main plotline (and never really come up again.) The pacing is particularly awkward, because we're usually subjected to all information once in the main plotline, regurgitated a second time (often verbatim) by …

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Goodreads'

Ample lovingly detailed descriptions of rape. Consenting sex given 2-3 sentences, as opposed to rape and torture getting multiple pages per event. Sandwiches.

Assigned for my partner's lit class, this isn't lit, it's shlit.

Also, love is not real.

This book is a classic case of verbal diarrhea.

Review of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' on 'Storygraph'

Well, this book is one of my recent favorites!!
It all started when one day, last year, the hype of this series caught my attention as I saw it mentioned in some blog I was reading (I can´t remember which one now).
And I got somewhat interested after I knew it was a swedish author. I´ve been to Sweden a couple of years ago and I just loved their neat and quiet kind of cities, the peoples
objectiveness and straight forward attitude.

I´ve always loved mysterious and detective kind of stories, solving murders, etc, but at first, I was unsure whether I´d really enjoy the book because I didn´t know the author literary work at all.

Anyway, the book got me completely hooked, it was one of those “don´t-sleep-until-you-finish” ones, and I really enjoyed the story pace and the way it evolves. The heroine, Lisbeth Salander, is complex and even …

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