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gategrrlI love the library system. I especially love the interlibrary loan system [even if it's a PITA for librarians :-( ]
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is at my local branch waiting for me to pick it up, as is Stephen King's Needful Things. I suspect that King's book is a riff off of SWTWC by Bradbury - he writes glowingly about it in Danse Macabre. I'm surprised that I haven't read SWTWC at all, since I love Bradbury's short stories and collections. He's a word-painter extraordinaire. It's possible I have, but forgot - I read so many books when I was a kid, and sometimes only remember them *after* I've read on for a chapter or two or three, wondering why the hell it seems so familiar!
On their way:
and, I just ordered these two books through the loan just a moment ago (over the internet - I love the internet!)
I heard about Darkly Dreaming Dexter on a blog written by a genuine NYC agent who calls herself Miss Snark. I highly recommend her blog, if you're at interested in how agents and editors and publishers work. Here's the URL: Miss Snark . This book, I heard about vaguely before Miss Snark's entry. It's a new television series, apparently, about a serial killer/psychopath who has a twist (but nothing I hadn't heard of before) - a serial killer who kills Bad People. They're trying to warm the character up in the TV series by making him start to "feel" a little bit for his foster sister and kids, and for his victims - but that's treading a dangerous line for a character like that. I have no idea how they're going to swing this show into a viable series. Unless the person who is getting killed brutally by a serial killer is painted as being a totally completely evil person - won't that make Dexter (the DoGood Serial Killer) look even eviller? I wonder how they're going to swing that.
If anything, Dexter sounds like a Batman who's gone over the line and is killing the Joker and his minions off - and it's a line the Batman people tread very carefully. Batman is a psychopath, I believe, but he's got an iron hand on those impulses. Dexter? Heh, I think this guy probably enjoys indulging that side. I hope the book has a lot of black humor in it. And the series.
On their way:
| Straub, Peter. | Ghost Story | Intransit - sent -> | |||
| Siddons, Anne Rivers | The house next door | Intransit - sent -> | |||
| King, Stephen, 1947 | Night shift | Intransit - sent -> |
and, I just ordered these two books through the loan just a moment ago (over the internet - I love the internet!)
| Lindsay, Jeffry P. | Darkly dreaming Dexter : a novel | Request pending | |||
| The mammoth book of haunted house stories | Request pending |
I heard about Darkly Dreaming Dexter on a blog written by a genuine NYC agent who calls herself Miss Snark. I highly recommend her blog, if you're at interested in how agents and editors and publishers work. Here's the URL: Miss Snark . This book, I heard about vaguely before Miss Snark's entry. It's a new television series, apparently, about a serial killer/psychopath who has a twist (but nothing I hadn't heard of before) - a serial killer who kills Bad People. They're trying to warm the character up in the TV series by making him start to "feel" a little bit for his foster sister and kids, and for his victims - but that's treading a dangerous line for a character like that. I have no idea how they're going to swing this show into a viable series. Unless the person who is getting killed brutally by a serial killer is painted as being a totally completely evil person - won't that make Dexter (the DoGood Serial Killer) look even eviller? I wonder how they're going to swing that.
If anything, Dexter sounds like a Batman who's gone over the line and is killing the Joker and his minions off - and it's a line the Batman people tread very carefully. Batman is a psychopath, I believe, but he's got an iron hand on those impulses. Dexter? Heh, I think this guy probably enjoys indulging that side. I hope the book has a lot of black humor in it. And the series.
Speaking of series, even though my DVR has been screwing up a lot lately, I've managed to catch several episodes of Dead Like Me. I'd seen episodes before of this show, and liked it - I think what's playing on SciFi right now is the third season, because George's mother and father are divorced, and he's out of the picture.
And you CSI fans on my flist? I admit it. I couldn't resist. I saw the TV Guide that had Nick and Sara on the cover, with the headline about their contraversial romance on the show, and had to buy it. It was a pretty harmless interview with Petersen and Fox, who play those respective characters - but one of Petersen's responses to the interviewer's questions (actually, TWO, now that I think about it) just sent me through the roof, sort of. Well, made me roll my eyes. Some actors should just keep their mouths shut.
Here are the two questions that stood out to me, and their answers:
The character between the entire group seems to be changing: the bond that Warrick and Nick had is dwindling. Why?
Fox: I'm sorry the writer feels tha way. The writer will be happy to find out there's some Warrick and Nick stuff coming up early in this season. [this sounds a LOT like something Amanda Tapping would say on Stargate SG-1, isn't it? I don't know this actress, but the similarities in the situations are uncanny.]
I contacted a professional organization for entomologists. A gentleman replied that he was sorry the show was taking such a turn [with Grissom dating a subordinate] because it didn't reflect the personalities of the entomologists he knew. Do you care about how the professionals you portray feel about you?
Petersen: I've met many entomologists since the beginning of the show. I won and award at an entomology convention for upgrading the way people think of entomologists. Most, if not all, of the entomologists I've met enjoy relationships, sexual or otherwise. So this particular entomologist evidently believes entomologists should have sex. If that's the case, I feel bad for him and his bugs. [Petersen is talking out his ass here, not responding to what the interviewer and the entomologist he talked to mentioned -- sleeping with your subordinate! That's right, Petersen, make the person who had a genuine POINT look like an asshole in a national magazine - the professional entomologist has some actual personal working ethics: I guess Petersen doesn't. My own reaction would have been better if Petersen had just admitted that it isn't cool to fuck your subordinates in a professional environment, but that this is TV, and they can do whatever the fuck they want to make professional women look bad)
And you CSI fans on my flist? I admit it. I couldn't resist. I saw the TV Guide that had Nick and Sara on the cover, with the headline about their contraversial romance on the show, and had to buy it. It was a pretty harmless interview with Petersen and Fox, who play those respective characters - but one of Petersen's responses to the interviewer's questions (actually, TWO, now that I think about it) just sent me through the roof, sort of. Well, made me roll my eyes. Some actors should just keep their mouths shut.
Here are the two questions that stood out to me, and their answers:
The character between the entire group seems to be changing: the bond that Warrick and Nick had is dwindling. Why?
Fox: I'm sorry the writer feels tha way. The writer will be happy to find out there's some Warrick and Nick stuff coming up early in this season. [this sounds a LOT like something Amanda Tapping would say on Stargate SG-1, isn't it? I don't know this actress, but the similarities in the situations are uncanny.]
I contacted a professional organization for entomologists. A gentleman replied that he was sorry the show was taking such a turn [with Grissom dating a subordinate] because it didn't reflect the personalities of the entomologists he knew. Do you care about how the professionals you portray feel about you?
Petersen: I've met many entomologists since the beginning of the show. I won and award at an entomology convention for upgrading the way people think of entomologists. Most, if not all, of the entomologists I've met enjoy relationships, sexual or otherwise. So this particular entomologist evidently believes entomologists should have sex. If that's the case, I feel bad for him and his bugs. [Petersen is talking out his ass here, not responding to what the interviewer and the entomologist he talked to mentioned -- sleeping with your subordinate! That's right, Petersen, make the person who had a genuine POINT look like an asshole in a national magazine - the professional entomologist has some actual personal working ethics: I guess Petersen doesn't. My own reaction would have been better if Petersen had just admitted that it isn't cool to fuck your subordinates in a professional environment, but that this is TV, and they can do whatever the fuck they want to make professional women look bad)
