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The Girl Who Played with Fire |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  886 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
ASIN: B001NLKT60
Publication Date: July 20, 2009
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: The girl with the dragon tattoo is back. Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her own past (more specifically, an event coldly known as "All the Evil") if she is to stay one step ahead--and alive. The Girl Who Played with Fire is a break-out-in-a-cold-sweat thriller that crackles with stunning twists and dismisses any talk of a sophomore slump. Fans of Larsson's prior work will find even more to love here, and readers who do not find their hearts racing within the first five pages may want to confirm they still have a pulse. Expect healthy doses of murder, betrayal, and deceit, as well as enough espresso drinks to fuel downtown Seattle for months. --Dave Callanan
Product Description
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander—the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire.
As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Salander and Blomkvist are back! September 8, 2010
Anna McCall (Atlanta, GA)
I could hardly wait to get my hands on this after devouring "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" in a 24-hour period. The characters are picked up where they left off, with Salander now a world-traveling billionaire and Blomkvist back at his beloved Millennium newspaper. The story this time around revolves around a journalist and his girlfriend who are murdered on the eve of exposing many high-ranking and public Swedish officials in a sex trafficking scandal. They are murdered and Lisbeth Salander is the main suspect. Blomkvist and her mentor Dragan Armansky are convinced of her innocence and set about proving so.
This book delves further into Lisbeth Salander's mysterious and damaged psyche. We learn the root of "all the Evil" that was referenced in the first book as well as the mystery of her family. It's all delicious and makes for one hell of a ride!
 so-so superhero novel September 8, 2010
Michael Lewyn (Jacksonville, FL)
I bought this as an airport novel, and I think it turned out to be a moderately entertaining one. The first third of the novel was quite dull, but eventually it became interesting enough to finish - not a classic by any means, just the sort of book that is a nice diversion if you have nothing better to read.
Basically, this is a kind of superhero novel; Salander uses her brainpower, her computer skills, and her skill with weapons to defeat any enemy, including one who is basically a supervillian- a giant who feels no pain. When Salander is not part of the action, the novel drags; most of the supporting characters are not particularly memorable.
Pleased with vendor September 7, 2010
H. Buckley Cording (usa)
I want to let you know how pleased I am with Lilly Street Books. They are a small business out of their home and they got the book The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson to me amazingly fast. I heard from them the day after I placed the order and they had already mailed the book to me. Considering there was a weekend and a holiday, they still got the book to me in less than a week! A five star experience.
 Bloated and Predictable September 7, 2010
Mark Kenderdine
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The initial offering in this series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was barely good enough to goad me into buying this sequel, but this will not happen for the third book.
Other negative reviews touch on many of the things that I had problems with, but I'll name the things that bothered me off of the top of my head.
The plot was slow developing; it took 250 pages just to get to the point described by the premise on the back cover of the paperback edition. WAY TOO MUCH DETAIL; definitive descriptions of shopping trips to IKEA and convenience stores with a plethora of product placement. Lisbeth Salander, an interesting character from the first book, is now a superwoman, who I never felt was in any danger whatsoever. Blomqvist the male lead is almost as invulnerable, but dull and uninteresting.
All other male characters are either 'good guys' or 'bad guys' depending on their opinion of Salander. The female characters are completely interchangeable(with the exception of over-the-top lesbian Miriam Wu) and I often became confused; often I was thinking that character Erica Berger was Malin Errikson and vice versa.
The bad guys are extremely one dimensional and have no chance against the likes of Salander; when they had her in their clutches with a chance of putting her out of the way permanently, I couldn't help but think of Dr Evil's son in Austin Powers, imploring his dad to just shoot him; if the evil dudes in this book had just shot Salander then, I would boost this rating 1 star.
 Can't Review - Never Received September 6, 2010
E. Griffin
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Shame on Amazon and D W Books.
I will buy books from Alibris or Better World Books from now on!
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