So, I spent much of the last two evenings catching up on Dumbing of Age. I’m caught up now…
Also, tonight’s rush dinner proved awesome. It was: Thin sliced pork shoulder, cut into strips. Lightly floured with salt and pepper. Cook quickly on medium high in bacon fat, add sliced apples (and turnip), serve. Yum!
At Jennifer’s urging, I set Regenesis aside and wolfed down Watchmen. [We’re looking at hitting the movie and were advised that reading the comic is required to make sense of the plot.] After reading the comic, I’m interested in seeing how much of it they can pack into the movie… and whether it’ll be changed dramatically in the process.
It was a good book, but I don’t think it impressed me as much as it did Jennifer (and the reviewers on the back cover). The story arcs are solid and come to an end, which is nice, and I’m sure I missed a number of details. It’s a lot more fun to read than many “classics”– a mostly street level superhero story, with several twists. The character development and choices are great– not unchanging and static, but consistent enough that their changes are the result of actions, not the writer’s whim.