So Absurd You Can’t Stop
Say that you want to read the Left Behind series, but you just don’t have time to work through all 14 (or 20, or whatever they’re up to now). Did you think that what it really needed was a heavy dose of Scientology?
Have you ever gone to a Michael Bay movie (Transformers, Armeggedon, you know, big on boom not so much on plot) and thought, ‘I wonder what the book would’ve been like…’
Do you like Dan Brown books but wish it was a bit more obvious what was factual basis for the fictional story and what was twisted manifestations of the the author’s imagination?
Well then. I’ve got just the books for you.
At Meg’s graduation Matt gave me a book he had read and thought I would enjoy. It was In His Image by James BeauSeigneur, the first book of The Christ Clone Trilogy.
No, seriously.
The premise is that when the scientific team took samples from the Shroud of Turin, they found skins cells that were still alive. Really. Yet instead of telli g the rest of the team the scientist took it home and used it to clone Jesus. Really. He then thought it proper to name the clone in the spirit of discovery and exploration so he named him Chris. As in Christopher Columbus, not Chris-t.
I’m really not making this up. Seriously.
Honest.
The subsequent events in the books, the Rapture, several World Wars, plagues, aliens, Armaggedon, giant killer Asteroids and even the occasional red herring take it so far off a cliff that not only does the base premise seem downright plausible but it goes so far off the edge of reason that even the lemmings turned back.
I loved it. I read all three. They were so bizarely absurd that I couldn’t put them down. No matter how bad they got I couldn’t put them down. Right now I’m thinking about seeing 2012 for a dose of reality.
Hyperbole aside, no, wait, that’s right in line with them. I did stick it out for the 14 book run of Left Behind (at least until the second coming which came maybe halfway through the last book, i was still teying to figure out how they stretched it that far when they started adding more books. I quit then. Seriously guys, it was a great 7 book series, know when to let it go) and I’ve gotta say this somehow got more death and destruction (it is the end of the world you know) into three books then LB did in 14. Yet it still managed to be just as overly drawn out in the final book. That, my friends, is skill.
I must admit there was one moment, one turn of a character arc that I did truly emotionally enjoy (I’ll leave it to you to find). But by the end I was so totally fed up with either side that even though I could clearly see where the author was pointing I just couldn’t bring myself ’round.
A totally enjoyable romp but total, complete trash. You should check it out.
And you thought the Glass Ghillie was strange…
I don’t know if it’s entertaining or makes any sort of sense or is an equally bewildering if you watch it from the beginning. However, if you’re randomly flipping through channels and come across it in the last 5 minutes, you may well be stuck watching it to the end in a desperate attempt to make some sense of the images rolling past your screen.
Oddly enough, I’m not talking about the made for tv version of a Seth Grahame-Smith novel. Such might be of far greater quality. Still, this is in his vein. When the credits rolled and we were shook out of our daze I quickly consulted the guide to see what bit of witchcraft had just released us from it’s spell. The title didn’t help. Especially with the lack of a SGS link.
Jane Austen’s Mafia! (no, really)
And I thought Scientology laced armageddon trilogies were strange (more on this later)
Schrödinger’s Quantum Twin
Yes he looks just like Schrödinger.
Yes this is exactly how Schrödinger would act.
No it’s not actually Schrödinger, but amusing just the same.
No, that doesn’t mean this was Snicklefritz, he wouldn’t have been fazed by the snow, would likely have tried to eat it and if anything gone straight up the fence.
*blink*
So Apple is why AT&T is the only wireless carrier who can’t be bothered to provide at least some service with in 20 minutes of me? A place so backwater that… oh .. wait, even my Kindle gets 3G here where AT&T has no signal? Ah, k, definitely because of the iPhone. Thanks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/13digi.html
I Blame the Circles
Yesterday while listing a book, having read it twice before, I thought back fondly and decided to throw it in again for a new read. The book is Prostho Plus by Piers Anthony, a rather odd sci fi romp about a dentist from earth getting caught up in the hitherto unknown world(s) of galactic dentistry. How that thought ever lasted long enough to end up a published book is a different matter entirely, regardless it’s a lovely candy read. I remembered the premise, I recalled the major scenes, what I didn’t recolect in specifics brought the comfortable joy of rediscovery.
That is, until I got halfway through the book.
Remember I’d read this twice before, and it’s one of my favored books from one of my favorite authors. Before I picked it up this time I could have related to you a general sketch of the book, most the major developments and a fair approximation of the satisfying conclusion. Had you gone and read the book you would have been mistified as I. For, there’s an entire second part to the book that I had no recolection of even existing much less in the details within. Flat out, it turned into a new read.
Weird.
WPAA
Is there a Wrapping Paper Addicts Anonymous?
If you count the 2 rolls that she emptied this weekend, Meg has 40 different rolls of wrapping paper. The majority of which are Christmas specific.
I’m just saying.
Maybe she’s using a different roll for each present she’s getting me this year… maybe.
