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Has anyone seen the Swedish versions with Rolf Lassgard and Krister Henriksson as Wallander, or perhaps the British one with Kenneth Branagh? Who is your preferred actor, and which series do you think is the best?

Anyone read the books perchance?

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Fat Cat wrote:Fuck you.

I had a feeling I might provoke that reaction. Too predictable.

I would like to poop on you.

Fat Cat wrote:I would like to poop on you.

Don't lie. You've never liked doing it. I've always had to incentivise you with money in the past, and even then you've complained. Now shut up and squeeze one out .

I read some of the books. Swedish in that gray melancholy Scandannavian way. The plots do drag you along. Mankell just ended the series with his last Wallander book, The Troubled Man. Ends in a gray melancholy manner.

seeahill wrote:I read some of the books. Swedish in that gray melancholy Scandannavian way. The plots do drag you along. Mankell just ended the series with his last Wallander book, The Troubled Man. Ends in a gray melancholy manner.

It must be strange being brought up with the myth of the American dream and having to interpret all art forms through the filter of the culture that that represents.

And I don't posit that as a criticism uniquely directed at a state-side mentality either, it is something I see within my own culture more and more often, too.

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:

seeahill wrote:I read some of the books. Swedish in that gray melancholy Scandannavian way. The plots do drag you along. Mankell just ended the series with his last Wallander book, The Troubled Man. Ends in a gray melancholy manner.

It must be strange being brought up with the myth of the American dream and having to interpret all art forms through the filter of the culture that that represents.

And I don't posit that as a criticism uniquely directed at a state-side mentality either, it is something I see within my own culture more and more often, too.

I'm not sure I see your point.

seeahill wrote:

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:

seeahill wrote:I read some of the books. Swedish in that gray melancholy Scandannavian way. The plots do drag you along. Mankell just ended the series with his last Wallander book, The Troubled Man. Ends in a gray melancholy manner.

It must be strange being brought up with the myth of the American dream and having to interpret all art forms through the filter of the culture that that represents.

And I don't posit that as a criticism uniquely directed at a state-side mentality either, it is something I see within my own culture more and more often, too.

I'm not sure I see your point.

I was just commenting on the hermeneutic problem of seeing everything Scandinavian as "gray melancholy", and not really ever getting beyond that. I imagine Nordic writers are trying to do something more than just that, but from the viewpoint of our own culture we aren't able, or don't try, to find out what that is.

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:

seeahill wrote:

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:

seeahill wrote:I read some of the books. Swedish in that gray melancholy Scandannavian way. The plots do drag you along. Mankell just ended the series with his last Wallander book, The Troubled Man. Ends in a gray melancholy manner.

It must be strange being brought up with the myth of the American dream and having to interpret all art forms through the filter of the culture that that represents.

And I don't posit that as a criticism uniquely directed at a state-side mentality either, it is something I see within my own culture more and more often, too.

I'm not sure I see your point.

I was just commenting on the hermeneutic problem of seeing everything Scandinavian as "gray melancholy", and not really ever getting beyond that. I imagine Nordic writers are trying to do something more than just that, but from the viewpoint of our own culture we aren't able, or don't try, to find out what that is.

In this book, the sky is gray, the sea is gray and rain is gray. The "Troubled Man" of the title could perhaps be the cop/hero or the man he is chasing. It is fairly obvious from the beginning that something terrible is happening to Wallander. This is a readable but dour and, yes, gray book.

Give it a read and see if I'm just grafting my own pre-conceptions into the book.

seeahill wrote:

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:

seeahill wrote:

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:

seeahill wrote:I read some of the books. Swedish in that gray melancholy Scandannavian way. The plots do drag you along. Mankell just ended the series with his last Wallander book, The Troubled Man. Ends in a gray melancholy manner.

It must be strange being brought up with the myth of the American dream and having to interpret all art forms through the filter of the culture that that represents.

And I don't posit that as a criticism uniquely directed at a state-side mentality either, it is something I see within my own culture more and more often, too.

I'm not sure I see your point.

I was just commenting on the hermeneutic problem of seeing everything Scandinavian as "gray melancholy", and not really ever getting beyond that. I imagine Nordic writers are trying to do something more than just that, but from the viewpoint of our own culture we aren't able, or don't try, to find out what that is.

In this book, the sky is gray, the sea is gray and rain is gray. The "Troubled Man" of the title could perhaps be the cop/hero or the man he is chasing. It is fairly obvious from the beginning that something terrible is happening to Wallander. This is a readable but dour and, yes, gray book.

Give it a read and see if I'm just grafting my own pre-conceptions into the book.

Fair enough, I see what you're saying.

And just because I can, here's some images that google threw up when I typed in "Swedish girls".