Don't get me started on those Stieg Larsson books. I will happily describe for you at great length how much and exactly why I hated them :P (I understand the movies are something of an improvement on the books, if only because they deleted some of the endless verbiage and product placement. If you didn't actually know the contents of every single sandwich, size of cups of coffee, and times people went to the bathroom, then the movie was definitely better than the book.