The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

• All Critics: 14
• Positive: 10
• Negative: 4

• The New York Times | 14 Sep 2008

  ...if the middle section of “Girl” is a treat, the rest of the novel doesn’t quite measure up. ...The story of his revenge is boring and implausible... “Girl” ends blandly.

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• BC Books | 19 Feb 2012

  fast-paced with extremely well-drawn characters... one of the best reads I've had in a long time.

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• The Independent | 24 Feb 2008

  never feels like a by-the-numbers thriller. The twists and revelations work all the better for being worked for, rather than flung at the reader, two to a page.

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• The Guardian | 5 Jan 2008

  a striking novel, full of passion, an evocative sense of place and subtle insights into venal, corrupt minds.

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• Seattle PI | 29 Dec 2011

  This novel is fast-paced, engrossing, and frustrating in the best possible way. Every time one mystery is solved, something else happens before you even have time to wonder what comes next.

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• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 21 Sep 2008

  a big, intricately plotted, darkly humorous work, rich with ironies, quirky but believable characters and a literary playfulness that only a master of the genre and its history could bring off.

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• Kirkus Reviews | 15 Jul 2008

  the last 50 pages are inevitably anticlimactic... Juicy melodrama obscured by the intricacies of problem-solving

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• A Separate State of Mind Blog | 27 Jun 2011

  a must read to anyone who enjoys an immersing novel to entertain their days (and nights). It is a book that you won’t be able to let down... a serious page turner

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• Euro Crime

  I very much enjoyed this powerful book which combines a good story with haunting characters and a crusading message.

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• Annenberg Digital News | 25 Feb 2012

  The prose is dispassionate, the events depicted as coldly as the wintery setting... The story never really gains a pace quick enough to justify the immensely slow set-up, and the payoff isn't exactly shocking so much as a matter-of-fact revelation.

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• John Baker's Blog | 16 Jan 2009

  recurring feeling that what I was reading really needed a good editor... it is the usual crime novel with a client and an investigator, a set of enigmatic clues and a romp through to a conclusion.

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• AV Club | 17 Sep 2008

  Larsson's leads are oddly attractive in their complete disinterest in being liked... Because they're so well-developed, their bizarre paths, studded with moments of absurd humor... become believable

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• USA Today | 8 Oct 2008

  The Sweden Larsson describes is almost as compelling as his heroine... Larsson's mesmerizing tale succeeds because... he has written a why-dunit rather than whodunit.

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• Knitting and Sundries | 30 Oct 2010

  There is intrigue ... old stories ...a serial killer ... a sadist or two ... mystery, and incest, and familial rivalry and strife ...you want to keep turning pages to see what is going to happen next.

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