It's a New Year

Well its January 1, 2010. It’s a typical blustery winter day and I’m in my office working, not celebrating the New Year. I really don’t make New Years resolutions, just wishes. We did stay up until midnight. I was reading a book - a new type of book called a cyber novel. It’s called Level 26, quite a gruesome story about a serial killer of amazing and creepy abilities. I have gotten half way through the online film clips of the book- the cyber portion, although I’ve finished the book. I can read faster than my dial up connection can download film clips. I will say I have not been totally impressed. I never liked it when movies took liberties with a books story line and I’m a bit disappointed that the on line clips seem to stray a bit from the book. There are so many interesting things that could have been exactly like the book. Some of the clips weren’t worth the download time, like number 9.

Level 26 is a pretty good read, you can tell in spots it was written to make a movie from- which is hard to explain - but on the whole it was interesting. I did like getting an image of the killer in his white condom like suit and the reptilian way he moved from the on line clips. On the other hand when you just read a book you can imagine the characters anyway you like - which could be different from the way someone else would imagine them. I certainly would imagine the hero a bit differently from the scruffy little guy in the clips.

The author is a CSI writer, and the way the book is laid out is like a TV show, you can almost feel the places where a commercial break will take place. It was written to make a serial line of books, which is obvious, so I guess I will have to see if the next is worth it. A lot of serials fizzle after a book or two. This cyber thing needs to evolve a bit if it’s going to work. And one of my wishes for the New Year is to have high speed internet out here at an affordable rate.

I have been able to get a few books read over the holidays. My treat to myself. An excellent book was the Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, a mystery by a new writer. I also read a new Stephanie Plum book- Finger Licking Fifteen. I like those books but they seem to be getting sillier, on the border line of being too silly.

One day I will attempt to write fiction. Oh gosh, is that a New Years resolution?