Category: Books

My Favorite Books: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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This is another book from my favorites pile.  Have you read it?  I picked this book up about five years ago in one of my book hauls.  I hadn’t actually heard anything about it.  I live under a rock most of the time.  And then I started to read.  I’m going to tell you right up front that I had a difficult time getting my brain in gear when it came to this book.  It was originally written in Swedish and then translated to English.  I don’t think that Hayden had this difficulty when he read it so maybe it’s just a middle aged Tracie problem.  Once I found the rhythm though, it was amazing.  Let me know!

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. via

You can find the other books in the series here.  I think that the original three are phenomenal.  A side note:  Stieg Larsson wrote the first three novels – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest which were printed as the Millenium series.  He died before any of them were actually put into print.  He left the manuscripts for the other novels and his family hired a ghost writer to finish them.  I haven’t had time to read the last three in the series so I can’t attest to whether or not they stand up to the original three.  What do you think?

You can find all of the other books I’ve read this year here.What are you reading right now? I am always looking for another book to read.