The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged)
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4.4 • 369 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
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 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.
Contagiously exciting, it’s 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
If you love a heart-thumping Nordic noir, you owe it to yourself to hear the one that made the genre a global sensation. When the scion of the wealthy Vanger family hires respected journalist Mikael Blomkvist to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his aunt decades before, Mikael knows he can’t do it without his most brilliant—and iconoclastic—researcher, the heavily pierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander. But the more they uncover about the mystery, the closer they get to a roiling, dangerous undercurrent of misogyny hiding not just within the Vanger family, but everywhere around them. Stieg Larsson lays out a fascinating series of overlapping plots involving business conspiracies and financial misdeeds, but it’s the novel’s dark, overriding theme of violence against women that propels the narrative forward. And the iron-forged Lisbeth is the ultimate strong female protagonist, especially when exacting revenge on the men who’ve abused her. Simon Vance’s poised British narration lets this smart and shocking thriller echo in your mind.
Customer Reviews
Great book
Good enough to say this was One of my favorite books, even though I think the ending was horrible
I don’t get the hype
I finally got around to reading this and I’m so disappointed. I really didn’t like it at all. Would not recommend
Boring
Can’t even get into this book. So disappointing. Feel like I’m listening to NPR news.