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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
 | Vintage 480 $14.95 4.0 1764 1 eBooks B0015DROBO |
Product Description An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. | |
5 out of 5] A True Classic September 8, 2010 Larsson's ability to captivate the reader with wonderful character development and a dynamite story add up to a fantastic novel. Too bad he's not around to write more. Pulitzer Prize material. 3 out of 5] accidental best-seller September 8, 2010 Not even in the league with other Scandinavian mysteries. I'm thinking of the Wallender series and, even more, of Joe Nesbo's Harry Hole adventures. This is just a collage of adolescent clichés, post-modern pseudo intellectual rubbish that is eventually saved by a compelling set of good guys who do very little work to solve the mystery. To really get into the book you need to believe that justice ='s a female Scandinavian superhero and a lot of bumbling and totally unbelievable Swedish folk who are just too good to be true. 1 out of 5] why??????? September 7, 2010 Why the fuss over this standard, boring fiction? Why was it translated into English when you could just as easily grab a Clive Cussler and find the same set of characters: a protagonist who, besides his day job, is mostly moderate in every way and the objectified, horribly-portrayed cast of disposable female characters? Plainly said: it's airport garbage fiction. 1 out of 5] Issues September 7, 2010 0 out of 2 I am told that the person I shipped this book to did not receive it. 3 out of 5] whoa, whoa, whoa... September 7, 2010 easy now... 'best book of the year'? 'literary masterpiece'? not so fast. i enjoyed the read and it's got some pretty well developed parts of the story, but it is what it is. and it's no masterpiece. it seems these days that works featuring extreme violence, especially those of a sexual nature get such grandiose reviews. still, lisabeth is an intriguing character and i look forward to reading the next in the series. | |
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