The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Highly readable, much talked about. Larsson set out to show men who hated women getting their comeuppance, so there's some very gratuitous scenes of violence to make his point. However, it disturbs me greatly that his idea of the opposite of “hating women” is Blomkvist, a serial womanizer with trouble keeping his pants on. I would have much preferred someone who appreciated the women in his life, respected them, and didn't see them as sex toys first.