Really suprised how much I enjoyed this book! | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Great Page Turner | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson

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	• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Knopf, 2008 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 73 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An adventure wrapped around a mystery

I'm a big fan of mystery novels and this is one of the best new ones I've read in quite a while. The mystery in this novel is actually nested inside an adventure involving financial misconduct by a shadowy mogul and his use of false information to destroy the credibility of an investigative financial reporter.

The novel was paced well and I enjoyed the bits of Sweden (the setting). I found the plotting to be excellent, the pace gripping and the characters interesting.

Really suprised how much I enjoyed this book!

This was a "required" read for me, as it was chosen by my bookclub. I read the first 50 pages or so and my head was spinning. There were SO many names (and it didn't help this was translated from Sweedish, so they were not 'typical names'). But, once I got all the people sorted out in my head, I could not put this one down. I gasped out loud and found myself thinking about what was going to happen next while I was away from the book. The 'ending' happened about 50 pages or so before the book was over, but it was still a good ending. Then I closed the book and found myself thinking about the people and wishing I knew more. Glad I found out this was the first in a Trilogy! It makes even more sense now that things ended the way they did. The 2nd Book, The Girl Who Played with Fire will be available in the US in July 2009, but I "cheated" and went to Amazon.co.uk and they are releasing it in January 2009, so I preordered it from them.
Glad I read it, look forward to the 2nd one. The translation was sometimes off (spelling of words and such) but it had no impact.

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Great Page Turner

I bought this book after reading a review that it was the Europeon version of the Da Vinci Code this year. It is very well written and once you pick it up and get into the book it is very hard to put it down. I have bought it for several friends as presents and e mailed alot of my friends to buy it. It is hard to find a good mystery novel with great characters and a really good story these days. If you really appreciate a good read, buy this book. You will be glad you did.

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Gripping

This is the best crime fiction I have read in many years. It's a real thriller with well-drawn characters you become very involved with and won't forget, and at the same time takes on big issues of power, justice, morality and corruption in a country we always think of as the model of propriety. Very well written, it is a book you won't want to put down once you get started. I can hardly wait for the forthcoming books in the series.

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A sensation across Europe?millions of copies sold

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.

It?s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.

It?s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet?s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age?and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it?who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism?and an unexpected connection between themselves.

It?s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.

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