I'm so glad that it's over - not because it was an ordeal, but because it's such a complex and moving story that it deserved a sense of completion. The ending was thrilling and although a lot of the legal details and subversions were frustrating, it only made the end result more satisfying.

The bit where Modig and Figuerola were apprehending the two hitmen :lovedup: and so many other admirable characters... mostly women, which I understand has been taken to mean Larsson was a feminist... but I don't consider that to be a bad thing. The characters of Linder, Berger, Figuerola, Modig, Giannini are all intended to be portrayed as strong, moral characters and that's certainly inspiring, but he also presents handfuls of great male characters - Polmgren, Armansky, Bublanski, Blomkvist, Lisbeth's doctor (I forget his name) - and I think it's silly to dismiss the trilogy as a feminist story.

Yeah Hornet's good but it does take a bit too long to get going, the first ten chapters are painfully boring. The ending is fantastic though, Gianini DESTROYING Teleborian <3.

There are a few really good Male characters the only problem I had was that pretty much everyone else was a rapist/sadist.

I think there were some who showed signs of redemption though - Ekstrom realised he was wrong and even realised that she'd been a victim the whole time, and then there was the Section head (Wadensjoo) who confessed to everything and had issues with Clinton/etc.

But yeah there were too many bad male characters. I thought they could have resolved Niedermann much the same way they did Salander, as someone who'd been abused... but then I guess he killed too many people too violently for that to happen.