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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By: Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland - translator
Narrated by: Martin Wenner
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#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!

©2008 Stieg Larsson (P)2008 Random House, Inc.

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Kept me interested

I liked the story.....it was my first audio book. I would like to read the next two in the trilogy.

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Read it again for the first time

I 'read this back a while back, and decided that it would be a good book to listen too again. My plan was too listen to a good book that I know so if I were distracted it would be ok. I also thought since I knew the story that it would be easy to put down.
I found myself engrossed in the story all over again. great book. worth a 2nd, maybe a 3rd read.

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Great story. Narration was wonderful!

Great story and narration. I much preferred it to the unabridged version and it doesn't leave anything out. I look forward to the next one.

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Pretty Good story, mature content

The story line good and there is some strong character building. However, there is strong language and rape scenes that are very explicit that detracted from the story for me.

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I forced myself to listen to the end

I had a tough time getting into this story, and was thankful I got the abridged vs. the unabridged. The explicit sex scenes didn't add any value to the story, but rather detracted from it in my opinion. I probably won't be picking up another book by this author.

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Caution: Very Sexually Graphic

I was surprised that none of the reviewers pointed out that this book contains very graphic depictions of rape and sexual torture. What made it all the more incredible is that we're dragged through these disgusting scenes for no apparent reason. The passages neither further the plot or factor into the overall story in any way. It seems as though they're just tossed in to give the story more of a thriller's "edge". Stay away unless you have a strong stomach for kinky rape etc. After reading this one I look forward to a rating system for books similar to movies and video games.

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Eh...

The writing is good. Descriptive and great character development.....but slow. I got half way through and lost interest.

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