The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and 15 million copies altogether, in the United States. Wiley published a collection of essays, edited by Eric Bronson, titled "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy" (2011). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in ; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the "Millennium" series. Larsson spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was 15: he stood by
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) enjoyable and completely unnecessary". Rene Rodriguez of "The Miami Herald" said that the "fabulously sinister entertainment" surpassed the original film "in every way". The film took two and a half stars from "Rolling Stone" commentator Peter Travers, who concluded: "Fincher's "Girl" is gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark." A. O. Scott, writing for "The New York Times", admired the moments of "brilliantly orchestrated" anxiety and confusion, but felt that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was vulnerable to the "lumbering proceduralism" that he saw in its literary counterpart, as evident with the "long stretches of drab, hackneyed