Ahhhh. The start of a good weekend doing the things I love best.
Number one: Reading fiction.
Today I finished The Chicago Way by Micheal Harvey. Outstanding. This guy is the Dashiell Hammett of the 21st century. No joke. Of course I’m a sucker for a good detective novel. I’m really fond of the genre for some reason. The dialog was quick, smart, clean and laced with sarcasm. The plot was ingenious and kept building in intricacy till the very end. An absolute page turner. In some respects, Harvey isn’t doing anything dramatically new for this genre but what he’s done is create a immaculate example of how a story like this should be told.
Number two: I started really recording the demos for Year Two.
And number three: I saw a nice piece of cinema.
Harry Potter. The final Harry Potter. Probably the finest job anyone could have done translating that book into a film. It was great but a weird movie to watch because it doesn’t have a real beginning or middle. The whole thing is one giant climax. It’s understandable though since its the culmination of about 20 hours worth of story on film. A mighty swell way to close out the series. In a word: Epic.
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