The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) in Retro Chapter Chicks

Feb 13, 2013 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own

I re-read this book by audio and even though the narrator was good, he didn't do a good job on Lisbeth's voice. I wish that Noomi Rapace would have done her own voice. That would have been awesome.

So, I have been a fan of this series for quite some time. I have the movie trilogy box set of the books that are fan freaking tastic! Although, now I have to switch from dvd to blu-ray! I also have a couple of different copies of the books!

Lisbeth Salander is just freaking awesome. She's so bloody sm ...more

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Sep 28, 2010 Book Concierge rated it liked it

Shelves: thriller, concierge, strong-women, series, library, sweden

As thrillers / mysteries go this is pretty well written. It starts off slowly because we need to get considerable background to set up the scheme. But after about 100 pages it really takes off. Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist specializing in financial matters, teams with Lisbeth Salander, a young genius at computer hacking, to investigate the 30-year-old disappearance of the young heiress of a major corporate dynasty. I thought there were several extraneous plot points that added little to the ma ...more

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Jul 21, 2014 Kris (My Novelesque Life) rated it really liked it

4 STARS

"Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet's disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty years ago, he needs a competent assistant - and he ...more

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Jun 28, 2018 Theresa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: tattoo, first-in-a-series, detective, contemporary-mystery, debut, noir, z-pop-sugar-2018-reading-challenge, z-aty-2018

This was a real page-turner! Can't believe I have owned this book for so many years and only now have read it. Loved the way the story unrolled, how the various characters were introduced, and how well the various plots were wrapped up, yet you definitely know there is more to come, more to learn about these characters.

I think it was an advantage to read this so long after the series debuted because knowing what influences and causes Larsson had been dedicated to are so clearly the themes advanc ...more

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Jan 24, 2011 Kelly rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction

There were parts of this book I loved (mainly the suspenseful, mystery-centered plot, the character development was pretty good and the setting was cool), but also parts that had me shaking my head. The whole beginning and end of the book were boring in comparison to the central murder-mystery. It almost seemed like two different books. I liked it enough to definitely read the next two in the trilogy, but the novel as a whole left something to be desired.

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