This book is perhaps the most pointless cash grab I've ever read in my whole life. I will concede that some of the illustrations - especially the cover - were gorgeous and obviously had been done meticulously and lovingly. However:- This book is only HALF of a book I've already read. It's incredibly overpriced and, for that, I would recommend it to absolutely nobody. Dude, nearly ten pounds for half of a book I've already read? This "section" of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo introduces us to a...

I won this book through Goodreads Firstreads.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Vol. 1 is a graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's bestselling book by the same title. It follows a murder mystery from decades past with the socially inept computer genuis Lisbeth at center stage. This volume covers half of that novel, with a second volume to be released in the future.---+I have to say, this book is beautiful, from cover to cover. The character that sticks out as consistently awesome looking is t...

I am a very big fan of Stieg Larsson's original series, as well as the films. I was very excited to read the graphic novel adaptation, even though it seemed a bit pointless. To me, releasing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in such a form threatened to deter people from reading the actual novel and simply picking up the comic version. Indeed, skimming through the reviews thus far, many have either only seen the films, or are completely new and this is their introduction to the series. What a sham...

I thought Denise Mina did a very good job of adapting the novel 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' into a graphic novel. The artistry is fantastic and the story is very readable. I don't know when Vol 2 will be released to finish the story but hopefully it will be soon.

Hitchcock said the perfect literary complement to the full length (which is to say, 90-120 minute) film is the short story. And people keep adapting huge novels (the Harry Potter series, Lord the Rings... Larsson's Dragon Tattoo!) into films that don't quite satisfy if we use certain criteria. But using OTHER criteria, well sometimes it works out just fine, and some people might even say Jackson's Lord of the Rings improve on Tolkien's (boringly) detailed, almost scholarly books. I liked the Har...

I liked this book, but I didn't love it; it was really just okay. It was somewhat hard for me to follow and understand due to a lack of captions on some of the illustrations. And then others of the illustrations were either too "close in" or too busy for me to fully make sense of them. I was disappointed that I didn't enjoy it more, since the novel form of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was excellent. So far I'm two for two as far as not enjoying graphic novels goes. Perhaps I just am not the s...

I really really enjoyed this book.While it was a little hard for me to follow (the names are all foreign and the movie was really over my head) I really really enjoyed all the artwork. I mean WOW!!! It reminded me of James O'Barr. Super loved!!!I don't recommend this for the kiddies (of course). And the older teens? Well, that's up to you. There is the rape scene, 2 bits where Mikael is in bed with a chicky poo, and one where Lisbeth's woman is showing off her chest. (my husband was not impresse...

I was feeling a bit like I was going through Lisbeth Salander withdrawal after reading the latest in the Millenium series. Even though I've already read the novel and watched both the Swedish and English versions of the movie, this graphic adaptation still added something. The major plot points were boiled down to a level where I could really understand what was going on - Swedish financial politics aren't exactly riveting. Lisbeth herself obviously is a very visually stunning character and that...

I own a copy given as a Christmas present from my girlfriend, Jillyn.I love The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books, the movie, and now the graphic novel. As one with ADHD it's sometimes very hard to follow just text or just moving pictures, there's so much to concentrate on and it doesn't always go at a slow enough pace. But, with the graphic novel, I was able to spend as much time on each page or cell as I needed to grasp the concept of the story. The art was beautiful, I loved it, but I wasn't

Not as spectacular as the source material, but still gives one the fix needed.

Ok I've read the millennium trilogy, seen the Swedish versions of all three films including the extended cuts and the Hollywood version, so I was interested to see how the graphic novel adaptation was handled. Lisbeth Salander is probably one of the most intriguing heroines ever put down on paper, socially inept, a moody genius, hard as nails and prone to the odd spot of violence when threatened.The graphic novel relies heavily on the fact that the reader is intimately familiar with the storylin...

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Graphic Novel) / B009DNVXX8I'm a big fan of the Millennium Trilogy, having read the novels several times, listened to the audiobook narrated by Simon Vance, and own the original movies with Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace. (I have not, for the record, seen the American remakes.) I selected this graphic novel at NetGalley with a great deal of excitement, fully expecting to enjoy it, but... well, I won't say I'm disappointed exactly, but I'm not enthralled.This in...

I wanted to revisit The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo before I started The Girl Who Played With Fire. So I decided to experience via another medium: the graphic novel. I have read the book, I have seen the movie (the Swedish one), and now I have read the the first graphic novel of two. It was enjoyable: the way everything unfolded and the way it left you reeling with questions. It was, at times, mostly on Lisbeth's end - if you are familiar with the story, you know what I mean - disturbing. I woul...

4.5/5 starsOne of my favorite things is to read the graphic novel version of my favorite books. I absolutely loved the Millennium series. So I was very excited to read this series in graphic novel format.The version I read is listed as Volume 1.1. It is not the complete first book (Volumes 1.1 and 1.2 were later combined to make one The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo graphic novel).I thought that this book was amazing. The illustrations were great and I was able to easily follow the story. Although...

Not gonna lie, I have no clue what's going on. I hear the books are really good, but I've never been able to get past the Swedish names and stuff. I was having a hard time keeping the two story lines separate and also not confusing the 2 blonde guys. Oh well, maybe I'll go ahead and read the second volume and see how it goes.

Ugh. Bad characterizations for most of the characters, all of the characters with the exception of maybe Lisbeth look they've stepped out of a 90's era coloring book, and the dialogue (excepting the parts taken verbatim from the book) is AWFUL. But worst of all, Denise Mina has tamed this story to mediocrity. I'm all in favor of changing the story to fit the medium where it's necessary, but Mina seems to have made changes just to make things easier for herself. For example:• Holger Palmgren does...

2 starsFor the record, I own the entire Millennium book trilogy and the Swedish movie trilogy. It's one of my favorite series and Lisbeth is hands down an all-time favorite character. My review treats this graphic novel as an adaptation of an original work, not an original or stand-alone work because that's not what it is.That being said, while I do enjoy quite a few graphic novels, I don't usually read comic versions of books because I find them lacking in content and not close enough to the or...

Good adaption of a great novel. It is extremely hard, I'd say impossible, to put Stieg Larsson's masterwork between only 146 pages. I liked the comic but it could not transmit all the feelings, the rawness, the cruelty and genius of the original work.

I am a huge fan of the original book series, and did enjoy this graphic novel. It does help to have read the novels first, as a few characters are drawn quite similarly.

I actually read the comic that collects volume 1 and 2, but didn't see the option. Anywho, I've seen the movie with Daniel Craig. And I've seen the miniseries starring Noomi Rapace. As different as those movies are from each other, so is this comic from the movies. I've read MIna's novels before, and have a great respect for her ability to tell a good crime story. I did not expect the comic adaptation to be so different from the movies. I think she gives the story a more haunting tone. It actual...