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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/951684.The_Man_Who_Smiled?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Man Who Smiled" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1179755401m/951684.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/951684.The_Man_Who_Smiled?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Man Who Smiled</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22339.Henning_Mankell">Henning Mankell</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15013022?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I love Kurt Wallander, the cynical & filled with existential angst detective. And this is so European. It's nice to remember that a fictional killer can have some real hangups about taking someone else's life. I can't remember the last time that was played out on US tv. Wallander spins a great tale, although I could do without the comments on how crime is becoming worse in Sweden. While he links this to the demise of social-democracy, he still insinuates that it is also because people are inherently getting more violent/less altruistic. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/888201?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>