We're working our way through season 3 of "24" now with the help of Netflix. Is there an episode of "24" in which there is no graphic torture sequence? I wonder if this show hasn't done a fair bit to desensitize Americans to the idea of torture as it relates to terrorists (which the Bush administration, of course, thinks is equivalent to "random Iraqis picked up on the street").
Thanks to the DVR, we're now going to watch the movie and then the pilot of the new "Battlestar Galactica". I loved this series when I was a kid, and I didn't care that every space battle contained the same 15 seconds of footage in a randomly looped sequence. I guess I was 12 when "Galactica 1980" came out for a few episodes. I thought it was really cool at the time, even though it totally screwed up the backstory.
Oh, and I was also at Half-Price Books yesterday. Now that all of my books are out on the shelves, I've had a chance to do an inventory and see that I am missing parts of some series. I rebought the original Xanth trilogy books two (Castle Roogna) and three (The Source of Magic) and also books five and seven of Incarnations of Immortality, just for the sake of completeness. Then I was that the Apprentice Adept series that I *thought* was a trilogy actually went on for another four books(!!). So I bought the next four. I may not have what it takes to hold my breath and read them to see what happens, but at least if the kids like the trilogy, I'll have more for them to read.
I was also missing "Ender's Game" from my collection, of all things, so I bought another copy of that. The boys have never heard of it. I envy them getting to read it for the first time.
Posted by Observer at January 16, 2005 07:17 PMComments on entries can only be made in pop-up windows while those entries are still on the main index page. Sorry for the inconvenience this causes, but this blocks about 99.99% of the spam the blog receives.
Oh you poor fool. I thought you called it a trilogy cuz it went to crap after that, but apparently not.
Just stop buying Piers Anthony books, it's not possible to regret that decision.
Posted by: Humbaba on January 16, 2005 11:48 PMI dunno, I can see the attraction of a complete set of Incarnations of Immortality even if I wasn't as thrilled with the 7th as some of the predecessors. And the first three or four Xanth novels weren't too bad. You gotta stop there though because they definitly turn into dreck fast.
Apprentice Adept *was* a trilogy. The "second trilogy" was published many years later and should be used for kindling on cold nights. The last one came after the "second trilogy" and is bathroom reading (in the same sense that the Sears Catalog is) as I understand it. I had enough sense to pick up the first of the new trilogy and promptly sell it to a used book dealer (before demand tanked) and have not touched any new material from him since.
Posted by: Seattle Astronomer on January 17, 2005 12:19 AM