I'm known in these parts as a big fan of Stieg Larsson and the "Dragon Tattoo" books and movies. One thing I loved about those stories was the sort of serene yet somehow creepy snowy Swedish landscape, which is almost like another character in the stories. I guess I had never consciously thought of so much of Sweden as being so rural/agricultural, so it was somewhat jarring to see that a lot of it looks like Alabama-- or southern Illinois.
Quite by accident I recently recorded some episodes of the series WALLANDER starring Kenneth Branaugh (director of THOR, etc). (We had the DVR set to record Masterpiece Mystery, for SHERLOCK.) Looking into it, I discovered they are detective stories written by another acclaimed Swedish mystery novelist--one who didn't die after writing a single trilogy-- Henning Mankell. I also found that Netflix has several episodes of an earlier, Swedish-produced series (with subtitles). Intrigued by all of this, I went and picked up the first volume of his Wallander novels, FACELESS KILLERS, last weekend. So far, it's pretty engrossing. My question is this: Anyone else here read any of the books or seen any of the shows? Are the older, subtitled, Swedish shows as good as (or better than) the newer Branaugh versions? Are any of them any good? Do they all stink? What else might I need to know? Thanks-- --Van -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
