The Regulators and Daybreak

Ok, so it has been awhile since I have done a book review (or a tv review [see below]). Mostly because I have been working my way through The Dark Descent verrrrryyyy sllllooooowwwwllllyyyy. I blame the 1000 pages and not the fact that I am a very slow reader and we have been watching Food Network in bed instead of reading. I would love to do a series of posts on some of the stories/authors in there. Especially H.P. Lovecraft. We shall see. But since it is over 1000 pages, it was much too heavy to bring sailing over Labor Day so I brought The Regulators instead. This is by far my favorite Richard Bachman book so far. I really want to read Desperation, Stephen King's mirror to this book. This was a very King-ish Bachman book. Rich character development and description of feeling, thoughts, sensations and surroundings. The flow was very King-like and it had a bit of his "foretelling" that I often find a bit annoying but is very him. By foretelling I mean he will just give away something that happens that seems like a big thing at the time. I can't give a good actual example without actually giving something away. But a sentence will read something like "He dreamt of being old enough to drive his own car and impress the ladies." And then the next sentence will be, "Little did he know he would die still young enough to only own a bike and as much a viring as he was right then." Something like that, only written better obviously. But I am always like "What?! Wait! He dies?!" But anyway, back to this book. I really liked it. I thought it was going to be about the Low Men of the Dark Tower and Hearts in Atlantis because of lines from both of those books but it is completely different. Did I think it was an awesome piece of lit? No. But I really did like it. And I read it pretty quickly, for me at least.

And finally, we watched the last episode of Battlestar Gallactica last night. I won't give anything away for any of you who are watching/will watch. But I am very curious to discuss it with anyone who has watched it. I think I am happy with the way it ended. I am a bit unhappy that it has ended because I really like the characters and the cast is just so fantastic. But I am happy that they ended it when they did because anything more would be too much. I think they answered enough questions to make me happy. So I will just leave it with saying that I am happy with the way that it ended.