When I got to the Denver airport on Wednesday, I needed to break a twenty to have some ones to tip the shuttle driver, so I bought a book at W.H. Smith’s (no relation). Having seen some good reviews, I purchased The Golden Compass, a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman. I’m only halfway through it, but I’ve found it very engrossing. The daemon concept is particularly well executed.
Rich and I have been watching the DVDs of the BBC miniseries “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman. We’ve watched the first four episodes (out of six), and they’ve succeeded fairly well in making the transition to video. But as one might expect, the novel is still better.
The early reviews of the film “Paycheck” (loosely based on the short story by Phillip K. Dick) seemed very negative, but of course I still wanted to see it. I rounded up four friends and we saw it on the evening of the 25th. We were all very pleasantly surpirsed, as it was actually quite good. There were fewer obvious plot holes than in “Minority Report” (which I also liked).
Next I want to see “Big Fish”…