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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By: Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland - translator
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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Publisher's summary

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series

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.

Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!

Listen to the rest of The Millennium Trilogy.
©2008 Stieg Larsson (P)2008 Books on Tape

Critic reviews

"Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family's remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European best seller...At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden's dirty not-so-little secrets, this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple." (Publishers Weekly)

"Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson's first novel." (The New York Times)

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a striking novel. Just when I was thinking there wasn't anything new on the horizon, along comes Stieg Larsson with this wonderfully unique story. I was completely absorbed." (Michael Connelly)

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The Girl with the Dragon TAttoo

Great book, looking forward to reading the next book; great narrator; will look for more of his books also;

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Trigger heavy and worth it.

This book deals directly with violence against women, so there are obviously triggers.

The bastard get what's coming to them in the end. Trust me and read through it.

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Great story.

What did you love best about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?

I think this is a great pop novel. I ended up purchasing all three audio versions of the book. I'm giving it a four on story, because I feel like in the end it's a pop novel. It captured my interest and held it well, but I wasn't blown away by the writing.

What does Simon Vance bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I think that Simon Vance does a great job of telling the story and making the characters come alive.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It's a bit long to listen to in one sitting.

Any additional comments?

I definitely recommend it.

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Loved It!!!

Great listen...I recommend to anyone that needs to listen to something different! Simon Vance did a great job. ;-)

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not all you might think

As others have already stated this book is quite slow at first and made me wish for C.S. Lewis. However, it does pick up transforming into a great mystery. 4 stars might be more than i should give due to the begging and the sadomasochism towards the end of the book. I would be embarrassed to recommend this book to many of my friends due to the amount of sadomasochism contained within the book.

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Best book ever

A book for the ages. Classic. Well constructed. As often as I've listened to it - it never gets old.

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Stunning

It took me a while to get into and warm up to this book but once I did, I was hooked. I've read other books translated to English but this translation was stellar. It was as if Charles Dickens had transported in time to lend his beautiful eloquence to a modern-day story. The narrator was superb. His characterizations and narrating was perfect and could even rival that of Roy Dotrice or Jim Dale. Fantastic story! Woo-Hoo!!!

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love love love

I loved it! I was hooked from start to finish. Can't wait to start the next book.

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obsessive

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I was completely obsessed with finishing this book once I started. At first I was unsure, but after the inital character set up, I couldn't stop listening. I listen during my daily commute, and found myself leaving early and driving slower just to get to listen more. Don't pass this one up!

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great thriller

can't wait to listen again great book wonderful performance for me really in the book

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