Yep, Swedish tv was far superior in this case
L
On 5 October 2015 at 23:12, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is sad news. I read a number of the books. And enjoyed the Swedish TV
> version - more than the British one, though it was alright.
>
> I made a visit to Ystad last year, where the books were set. Predictably,
> they had Wallander walking tours and a handy Wallander map. We didn't
> exactly do that but did encounter sites mentioned in the books or TV
> series, plural.
>
> Jill
>
>
> On 06/10/2015, at 8:05 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>
> > I haven't even read any of the Wallanders, though it sounds like I
> should.
> > But Secrets in the Fire was a YA novel he wrote and went down very well
> > with a group of otherwise reluctant readers I taught. The novel was
> > written, as I recall, from the point of view of a ten year old girl whose
> > legs had been taken from her by land mine.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I enjoyed Henning Mankell for so many years -and am rather heavily into
> >> all Nordic Noir!will miss him Patrick
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Upton
> >> Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 4:34 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Henning Mankell
> >>
> >> & now Henning Mankell is dead.
> >>
> >> I've read a few non-Wallanders and all the Wallanders. The last one, the
> >> unhappy man or the ill at ease man.... something like that... very fine.
> >> Rather an achievement to come up with such a relatively unpleasant
> >> character as Wallander and make the story enjoyable
> >>
> >> You can keep your Kenneth Branaghs.
> >>
> >> Anyway, he's dead and I'm sulking. (I read a Steig Larsson after Rebecca
> >> and thought "good, but not anything as good as Mankell". Huh
> >>
> >> L
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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If you have received from me a bogus email offering passworded files, I do
apologise. It was not I; but I am sorry.
Just delete the horrid thing, please.
And please let me know if it happens again.
It shouldn't happen again but then it shouldn't have happened the first
time.Please blame gmail! and if you have dealings with British Gas and HSBC
and therefore have data about you on their system take heart from knowing
that they accepted that bogus email as reliable
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