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Well, here's my first blog. Wheeee! :)
I decided to start blogging as a way to record commentary of books, movies, etc. I learned long ago that most of my friends and family have no interest in the same things I enjoy, so I've stopped trying to share with them. And I usually don't have deep enough thoughts to submit them in a more "official" BBS or newsgroup setting. This'll give me a place to prattle without the pressure to be interesting or worthwhile.
So, right now, I'm reading The Broken Places by Ethlie Ann Vare and Daniel Morris. It's a TV tie-in to what used to be a favorite show of mine, Andromeda. The show sucks now, and I'm not usually jazzed by tie-in novels, but I really enjoyed the first Drom book (Destruction of Illusions by Keith R.A. DeCandido) and Ethlie was a writer when the show was good, so this title was worth a look.
I'm liking it very much. As is to be expected, the character's voices are spot on, and that's one of the chief reasons to read this sort of book, I think - to be able to "watch" the story play out in your head complete with the actors you're so familiar with. At least that's why I enjoy it. Not that the plot is incidental or anything, but it's difficult to look at that objectively. Would the plot be good without the Andromeda ties? No idea. But it's certainly good at capturing what made Andromeda good in the first place: witty, intelligent characters, each with his/her own dysfunctional charm, and a sci-fi setup that's got some meat to it.
I decided to start blogging as a way to record commentary of books, movies, etc. I learned long ago that most of my friends and family have no interest in the same things I enjoy, so I've stopped trying to share with them. And I usually don't have deep enough thoughts to submit them in a more "official" BBS or newsgroup setting. This'll give me a place to prattle without the pressure to be interesting or worthwhile.
So, right now, I'm reading The Broken Places by Ethlie Ann Vare and Daniel Morris. It's a TV tie-in to what used to be a favorite show of mine, Andromeda. The show sucks now, and I'm not usually jazzed by tie-in novels, but I really enjoyed the first Drom book (Destruction of Illusions by Keith R.A. DeCandido) and Ethlie was a writer when the show was good, so this title was worth a look.
I'm liking it very much. As is to be expected, the character's voices are spot on, and that's one of the chief reasons to read this sort of book, I think - to be able to "watch" the story play out in your head complete with the actors you're so familiar with. At least that's why I enjoy it. Not that the plot is incidental or anything, but it's difficult to look at that objectively. Would the plot be good without the Andromeda ties? No idea. But it's certainly good at capturing what made Andromeda good in the first place: witty, intelligent characters, each with his/her own dysfunctional charm, and a sci-fi setup that's got some meat to it.
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