false 2429135 53 <p>A publishing sensation across Europe&#8212;two million copies sold and months at the top of best-seller lists<br><br>A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.<br><br>It&#8217;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, Henrik, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.<br><br>And it&#8217;s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired by Henrik to get to the bottom of Harriet&#8217;s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age&#8212;and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness&#8212;who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism&#8212;and a surprising connection between themselves.<br><br>A contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of whom must face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.</p> 1708725 book 2005 Män som hatar kvinnor total:14157|5:3975|4:6526|3:2780|2:642|1:232| 14157 55844 25507 4517 4 71 false false Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 20:18:51 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 06:03:14 -0700 2008
For a start there’s the hype. Due to past disappointments I am wary of multi-stickered, superlatively praised books.

Then there’s the fact it’s dauntingly huge. You can’t curl up in bed with it, or slip it in your bag to read on the...more...]]> 4 25 true false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 04:46:55 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 16 05:17:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 16 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 14:36:19 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 11:13:12 -0700 2009
I was born and raised in Minnesota, and if you know our state history, you’re already aware that we were predominantly...more...]]> 1 30 false true Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 30 10:06:26 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 26 21:02:50 -0800 2008
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I was told this book had reached DaVinci Code levels of success in Europe...more...]]> 5 6 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 02:28:08 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 03:37:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 12 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Sep 19 06:04:31 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 23 19:14:49 -0800 2009 I haven't had as much time for book reading lately, so it was sheer pleasure to have this page-turner to keep returning to. A financial charlatan, a serial killer, a libel trial, a hacker, an open marriage, an ancient mystery -- all that and more are wrapped up in this complex, evocative thril...more...]]> 5 11 false false Thu May 15 13:57:13 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 04 17:43:07 -0700 2009 5 5 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 14:13:27 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 07:56:37 -0700 2009
I’m usually wary when the hype around a book reaches huge proportions and this n...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 05:35:24 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 23:28:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 7 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 02:10:20 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 03:49:29 -0800 2009 1
The book centres around a journalist called Blomkvist who has just been sentenced to 3 months in prison for a libelous article in his magasine Millenium against a business big-shot. After his sentencing and decidin...more...]]> 4 4 false false Fri Mar 06 05:34:52 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 16:59:43 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 05:34:52 -0800 2009 This book was really unlike any I have read I think....more...]]> 3 4 false false Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 31 16:04:49 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 08 15:10:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 09:00:41 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 08:55:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 20:29:07 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 07:54:21 -0800 2008
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The first problem I had was in pacing: the first half of the book was pretty much devoted to history and character set-...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 21:41:21 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 21:57:38 -0700 2008 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the exception. Like a Swedish smörgåsbord, this tasty book has a bit of everything: a comically heroic journalist; a family drama with a...more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 08:28:25 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 09:08:01 -0700 2008
The back story is ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 03:02:34 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 03:17:56 -0700 2008 more...]]>