The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Just the Series: Millennium Trilogy Vol. 1   

Series and Publisher: Millennium Trilogy   

Annotation: Contains Mature Material
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #6210478
Format: Paperback
Special Formats: Graphic Novel Graphic Novel Mature Content Mature Content
Publisher: Random House
Copyright Date: 2017
Edition Date: 2017 Release Date: 09/05/17
Illustrator: Homs,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-7858-6173-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-7858-6173-4
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2017285496
Dimensions: 26 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist

The first U.S. appearance of another major Swedish crime writer is cause for celebration but also disappointment: Larsson, an acclaimed journalist as well as the author of the award-winning Millenium trilogy, of which this is the first volume, died in 2004. The editor of a magazine called Expo, which was dedicated to fighting right-wing extremism, Larsson brings his journalistic background to bear in his first novel. It is the story of a crusading reporter, Mikail Blomkvist, who has been convicted of libel for his exposé of crooked financier Wennerstrom. Then another Swedish financier, a rival of Wennerstrom, wants to hire Blomkvist to solve the decades-old disappearance of his niece from the family's island compound in the north of Sweden. If Blomkvist works on the project for a year, his employer will deliver the goods on Wennerstrom. Blomkvist takes the job and soon finds himself trying to unlock the grisly multigenerational secrets in a hideously dysfunctional family's many closets. Helping him dig through those closets is the novel's real star, the girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, a ward of the state who happens to be Sweden's most formidable computer hacker and a fearless foe of women-hating men. Larsson has two great stories (and two star-worthy characters) here, and if he never quite brings them together e conclusion of the Wennerstrom campaign seems almost anticlimactic after the action-filled finale on the island e novel nevertheless offers compelling chunks of investigative journalism, high-tech sleuthing, and psychosexual drama. What a shame that we only have three books in which to watch the charismatic Lisbeth Salander take on the world!

Kirkus Reviews

First U.N.EWSLUGS publication for a deceased Swedish author (19542004); this first of his three novels, a bestseller in Europe, is a labored mystery. ate 2002. Mikael Blomkvist, reputable Stockholm financial journalist, has just lost a libel case brought by a notoriously devious tycoon. He's looking at a short jail term and the ruin of his magazine, which he owns with his best friend and occasional lover, Erika Berger. The case has brought him to the attention of Henrik Vanger, octogenarian, retired industrialist and head of the vast Vanger clan. Henrik has had a report on him prepared by Lisbeth Salander, the eponymous Girl, a freaky private investigator. The 24-year-old Lisbeth is a brilliant sleuth, and no wonder: She's the best computer hacker in Sweden. Henrik hires Mikael to solve an old mystery, the disappearance of his great-niece Harriet, in 1966. Henrik is sure she was murdered; every year the putative killer tauntingly sends him a pressed flower on his birthday (Harriet's custom). He is equally sure one of the Vangers is the murderer. They're a nasty bunch, Nazis and ne'er-do-wells. There are three story lines here: The future of the magazine, Lisbeth's travails (she has a sexually abusive guardian) and, most important, the Harriet mystery. This means an inordinately long setup. Only at the halfway point is there a small tug of excitement as Mikael breaks the case and enlists Lisbeth's help. The horrors are legion: Rape, incest, torture and serial killings continuing into the present. Mikael is confronted by an excruciating journalistic dilemma, resolved far too swiftly as we return to the magazine and the effort to get the evil tycoon, a major miscalculation on Larsson's part. The tycoon's empire has nothing to do with the theme of violence against women which has linked Lisbeth's story to the Vanger case, and the last 50 pages are inevitably anticlimactic. Juicy melodrama obscured by the intricacies of problem-solving.

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Word Count: 165,392
Reading Level: 6.5
Interest Level: 9+
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 6.5 / points: 27.0 / quiz: 126808 / grade: Upper Grades

Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikel Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist to investigate a unresolved family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, the two soon discover a brutal trail of murder, deception and dark secrets leading right up to the present day.

From the bestselling novel series by Steig Larson comes this English translation of the phenomenal French comics adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.


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