college basketball woe, brief book review
I keep reading the ESPN article I have open--"Flawed Terps are Williams' main concern"--as "Flawed Terps are Flawed." A more accurate summary, I think. Last Saturday's game against Miami is the first MD game I've deliberately not watched in, like, eight or nine years. I'm just glad they ended up winning.
I just finished Stephen King's DUMA KEY over the weekend--it's a thick book but reads quickly, so it only took a few days. I haven't read a lot of King's recent work, and haven't been that thrilled with what I have read, but I saw DUMA KEY listed as one of WaPo's top books of 2008, so I gave it a shot.
I really enjoyed the book--nicely creepy without some of the full-out terror I have in reading his early stuff. I liked the characters, and loved the conceit about art, creativity, and that particular sideways thinking into all kind of scary depths that can be used and manipulated by even scarier creatures.
One quibble:
I found Persephone to be scary but not all that connected to the people impacted--and whether or not death is inherently evil is a pretty debatable point. In other words, she was kind of a generic and external Big Bad as opposed to something straight from the internal fears of the main characters. Since so much was done with memory throughout, I thought there'd be a stronger connection to that in terms of the baddie. So I was a little disappointed in the reveal; there was enough momentum to do something more than what we got.
Pretty minor quibble, though, and I'd definitely recommend the book.
I just finished Stephen King's DUMA KEY over the weekend--it's a thick book but reads quickly, so it only took a few days. I haven't read a lot of King's recent work, and haven't been that thrilled with what I have read, but I saw DUMA KEY listed as one of WaPo's top books of 2008, so I gave it a shot.
I really enjoyed the book--nicely creepy without some of the full-out terror I have in reading his early stuff. I liked the characters, and loved the conceit about art, creativity, and that particular sideways thinking into all kind of scary depths that can be used and manipulated by even scarier creatures.
One quibble:
I found Persephone to be scary but not all that connected to the people impacted--and whether or not death is inherently evil is a pretty debatable point. In other words, she was kind of a generic and external Big Bad as opposed to something straight from the internal fears of the main characters. Since so much was done with memory throughout, I thought there'd be a stronger connection to that in terms of the baddie. So I was a little disappointed in the reveal; there was enough momentum to do something more than what we got.
Pretty minor quibble, though, and I'd definitely recommend the book.