While I didn't care so much for the violence, I thoroughly enjoyed the novels. I thought they had a comparatively unusual plot and unusual characters. They are definitely much better written than, say, Dan Brown novels.<p>Funny to see the the NYT complain about 12 page long boring descriptions. Surely any regular reader of the NYT should have no problems to cope with those.<p>Also that article just quotes things out of context to make them sound silly.
> (And that welfare state may soon be disabled by the recently elected conservative government.)<p>Uhuh. They've been in power since 2006 and the welfare state has not been "disabled".
The "funniest" part is that there really was a a scandal recently in Sweden about an upper class guy using his position for e.g. raping and abusing women.<p>He was a police chief which, despite police union criticism, got reinstated by the social democrat minister - because he was so politically correct...<p>Quite fun, considering the political leanings of Larsson.