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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Män som hatar kvinnor
© Stieg Larsson 2005, Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm
ISBN 9781847243492
Plot summary
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired by Henrik Vanger to investigate the disappearance of Vanger’s great-niece Harriet. Henrik suspects that someone in his family, the powerful Vanger clan, murdered Harriet over forty years ago.
Starting his investigation, Mikael realizes that Harriet’s disappearance is not a single event, but rather linked to series of gruesome murders in the past. He now crosses paths with Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker, an asocial punk and most importantly, a young woman driven by her vindictiveness.
Together they form an unlikely couple as they dive deeper into the violent past of the secretive Vanger family.
This is the first book in the Millennium-trilogy, find out more about Stieg's work on the trilogy here
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A great read. The next two I have on audio on my ipod so I can exercise a bit more; have spent too much time sitting already! But it was worth it.
P.S. who is Lennart Hyland and how can I get a copy of his rhyming alphabet?
- Liz, Australia 7/3/10, 7 Mars 2010
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No one notice the depravity & violence????
- magyar, 3 Mars 2010
Do you mean in the books or in real life? I've found it in both.
- Jan, Sweden, 6 Mars 2010
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Fascinating book. It examines the cruelty which exists in our world, and uses revenge as a legitimate antidote to abuse without resorting to the law, it highlights the helplessness and uselessness of the instituitions that are supposed to protect the vulnerable. A real thriller and unputdownable. Spent an evening on the couch reading it and was still reading it going up the stairs to bed.
- Tom Coady, 16 February 2010
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Can't believe the hype about this book. Read it after 3 people whose opinions I respect recommended it. Found it bland and bald, lacking in any believable characterisation with rather a weak, uncompelling story. Perhaps it was lost in translation but give me good prose, believable characters and a riveting tale any day.
- Caro, 14 February 2010
I, in part agree with your comment.. I attempted to start this book on a number of occasions before getting bored and putting it back on the shelf. In the end i began reading it from a few chapters in and then i started to get into the story. The following two books i enjoyed much, much more. Would definately recommend them compared to this one.
- Michelle Hutton, 20 February 2010
Thank you Michelle, from talking to many people who have read the whole series, that the books get better and that the third is really gripping. Will persevere!
- Caro Eyre 10 March 2010, 10 Mars 2010
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Incredible movie, great actors and very good director.
- Digon, 11 February 2010
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What did the dragon tatoo represent? When did she get it?
- julie, 9 February 2010
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it is a book that i liked a lot.i couldn't put it down.i read it in no time.now i look forward to watching the movie and after that i want to read the second book too.
- melina, 7 February 2010
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Mikael Blomkvist, as I recall, is not hired to investigate Harriet´s disappearance, but to write the old man´s memoir, no?
- Eva, 4 February 2010
Well, both, officially he's writing Vanger's memoir, but he's also supposed to find the mystery about Harriet.
- A:-), 11 February 2010
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i still reading this book and i cant stop turning bages
i really love it
- Mohammad barghash, 3 February 2010
at first it was very boring...but then i just couldn't stop reading it.
- melina, 7 February 2010
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I wish I was fluent in Swedish. A friend who read all of the books in Spanish gave me the 1st in the Trilogy in English. Riveting. and I hope Hollywood will not ruin it..
- , 31 January 2010
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The first 100 pages of the first book were difficult and disturbing, I felt like I was in a -sort of- business class. But there was this turning point, when Larsson made me stick my hands and all senses to the book and finish it in only 2 days. I stayed up to 4 am reading, when my husband woke up and asked me if I had trouble sleeping. Without looking him I told him "NO, MIkael is in trouble" "Psycho" he told me .
HAHAHA.
Hey Larsson come back and give us one more book at leassstt finish what youve started, the 4th one..
- LACY, 28 January 2010
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I read all the three books in less than a month. I'm SO depressed . I wanna keep reading. I became a milleniumaddict or whatever.
But there's one question. I never understood the emotional meaning of Lisbeth's dragon tattoo? The doctor in the third book, asks her, but obviously he had no reply. I mean, I know she has different tattoos that she made in different stages of her life... But to represent what? When she played out the fire in her past?
- Amber, 28 January 2010
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It is magnificently atmospheric & moody. It manages to capture & evoke feelings of all kinds effortlessly. An absolute dream of a book backed up by two sequels of equal quality. Dan Brown, give up!
- Geoff Hughes, 23 January 2010
Tony Hawkins
- Tony, 24 January 2010
Sorry about that! I read the book in France since it's a big hit here. Despite a well-woven plot, I found it to be some of the most two-dimentional writing I have ever come across. If this is literature.......
- Tony, 24 January 2010
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I am in the middle of the second book and am really enjoying it. One minor point about a previous comment: someone complains about the English translation and says they wish the tranlsator had taken more care; they then go on to say they wish they had read the Swedish original and will do so now. So how can the reviewer criticise the translation if they haven't yet read the original?
- , 19 January 2010
Because if you are fluent in Swedish and English, you probably know what wording the writer will have used in Swedish, by just looking at the English text. And, sometimes translation isn't the best... (My experience is that whenever translation sucks, the translator hasn't read the book properly first, but instead started translating right away)
- Swede, 16 February 2010
I totally agree with Swede. The translation is lacking, and as a Swede you don't need to read the Swedish version to clearly see it. A pity the translation isn't better, for such a riveting read.
- Sarmika, 9 Mars 2010
do a decent translation for us and post it online
- darren, 9 Mars 2010
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Kind of cliched, unfunny humor and rather prudish in a strange way.
- heydon park, 13 January 2010
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This reading simply destroyed my short vacation in Singapore. Also, I've got sunburned on the beach. It just glued me from the first to the last page!
Great writer - fantastic book.
Stieg must be a very strong personality. You can feel his character between lines.
I think, it was his expression of all what he believed in just before he died.
Also, he did a lot for Sweden.
- Vlad, 7 January 2010
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Whew! Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was FANTASTIC! Its a long time since I literally could not bear to put a book down. I even sneaked reading it under my desk in the office. What a terrific story. I am now about to start book 2! Don't bother me until I have finished it. Saxon in Johannesburg
- , 7 January 2010
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Has anyone created a map of the island? Would really help.
- Suzanne, 29 December 2009
tomelius.se/Blogg/hedeby1.jpg
- John, 4 January 2010
In the portuguese edition you have two maps: one with the general town (like in www.tomelius.se/Blogg/hedeby1.jpg) and other with the definition of wich people lives in which house. It really helped a lot!
- Julio, 10 January 2010
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i enjoyed reading the book. its hard to put it down.
i totally agree that once u started reading it, ull be hooked and u wont mind all the things around u anymore.. its like ur there, ,ur part of the book. i love that feeling.. that proves that larsson is really a good writer coz he keeps me excited in every page.
i love the twist and every character!
- rainey from philippines, 23 December 2009
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nice
- , 9 Mars 2010