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The Girl With The Dragon Tatto
by Steig Larson
Description:
Mikael Blomkvist, A Once-Respected Financial Journalist, Watches His Professional Life Rapidly Crumble Around Him. Prospects Appear Bleak Until An Unexpected (And Unsettling) Offer To Resurrect His Name Is Extended By An Old-School Titan Of Swedish Industry. The Catch—And There’s Always A Catch—Is That Blomkvist Must First Spend A Year Researching A Mysterious Disappearance That Has Remained Unsolved For Nearly Four Decades. With Few Other Options, He Accepts And Enlists The Help Of Investigator Lisbeth Salander, A Misunderstood Genius With A Cache Of Authority Issues. Little Is As It Seems In Larsson’s Novel, But There Is At Least One Constant: You Really Don’t Want To Mess With The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
About The Author
This article is about Stig Larsson, author and director. For Stieg Larsson, author of the Millennium series and journalist, see Stieg Larsson. Stig Håkan Larsson is a Swedish writer of novels, dramas, poetry, political essays and short stories, film writer, director and actor. His first success was in 1979 with Autisterna, since, Stig Larsson has established himself as one of Sweden’s best-known and influential authors. “His instinct for psychological and emotional violence has been compared[by whom?] to that of August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman.” He has published over 20 books including novels, short stories, and poetry collections. He has also written and directed internationally successful stage plays such as Vd and Systrar, bröder. In 1989, he wrote and directed his feature film debut Ängel, followed by The Rabbit Man in 1990. He has directed TV movies such as Under isen (1991) and Nigger (1991), and written screenplays for films such as Kristian Petris’s acclaimed Sommaren (1995).
Skryf Review
Excellent Reading…The original Swedish title of this book is “Men Who Hate Women.” If you ask me, it suits this story much better than catchier but less relevant “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” because it is in fact about men doing all kinds of horrid things to women. So here is the first warning to you, if you don’t handle violence against women and Children well, read this novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” starts off as an investigation of a 40-year old disappearance of a teenage heiress, but gradually morphs into a tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents and later takes in complicated international financial fraud and the buried
Evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family. I found this book extremely engaging and full of action and came to regret many times that I had an audio version instead of a regular paper book. I also enjoyed immensely the amount details about everything – the publishing business, twisted Swedish family, corporate crime, history and political order of Sweden, etc. I am guessing if you don’t care to read about any of these subjects, this book is not for you, because it is packed with this information.