Heavy Larsson

I'm no fan of the mysteriously popular Stieg Larsson. Prose with the grace of a software manual, endless pointless detail, a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too approach to sexual violence against women where rape is tut-tutted over after being described in lavish and drooling detail, and a classic male Mary Sue hero are just some of his books' many problems. But if you were a Larsson fan, you could so a lot worse than get hold of this upcoming and rather lovely Knopf boxed set of his trilogy, designed by Peter Mendelsund (from whose blog most of these pictures were stolen).

I'm also intrigued by these slightly peculiar Spanish (heroine as doll) and French (heroine as sexy Wednesday Addams) versions (the final image being the French boxed set).