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Dec. 6th, 2023 09:26 pm1. There are so many television shows now...that the critical reviewers no longer do just the top ten... UK Guardian has the Top 50 Shows of the Year.
These lists are so subjective, and this is impounded by the fact that it is physically impossible for everyone to have watched and even liked all of the same television shows. There are literally enough that we could all watch completely different shows, and would be lucky if we landed on the same ones at any given time.
I've not heard of over half of the television shows on that list - and I, as you all know, watch a lot of television. Granted some of it may not be very good television...but that's another discussion.
2. Work is exhausting me. It's non-stop from the moment I get in to when I leave. But, I am accomplishing stuff and doing it well (or as well as can be hoped?). ( Crazy Workplace )
3. Finished The Haunting of a House on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
It's heavily based on Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. And follows along the same lines in that it is more of a psychological horror tale than a ghost story. The House is the problem here.
But Hand falls into the same traps she's fallen into in other books of hers that I've read. In which the final chapter is kind of no-holds barred chaotic crazy. Someone is metaphorically or literally eaten by the antagonistic entity, usually the romantic love interest of the protagonist (to the degree there is one), and the characters own self-absorption and paranoia does them in. As a result, of the last bit - it's hard to care what happens to the characters - and the emotional oompf of the story is kind of lost.
It is a creepy book - and bothered me up to a certain point. The first two-thirds, where the scares are more suggested - is the creepiest. The last portion is a little muddled and over the top - to be scary at all.
At any rate, I've mixed feelings about it. It kind of reminds me of The Devil Takes You Home - and I've the same issues with both? I don't care about the people. However, both were compelling. And this one moved at a much faster pace or clip than the other one did. I got through it fast.
But, I'm hankering for a Kingfisher. So am trying the first book in her Paladin series. Assuming, I don't get bored and jump to something else.
Off to bed. Tired.
These lists are so subjective, and this is impounded by the fact that it is physically impossible for everyone to have watched and even liked all of the same television shows. There are literally enough that we could all watch completely different shows, and would be lucky if we landed on the same ones at any given time.
I've not heard of over half of the television shows on that list - and I, as you all know, watch a lot of television. Granted some of it may not be very good television...but that's another discussion.
2. Work is exhausting me. It's non-stop from the moment I get in to when I leave. But, I am accomplishing stuff and doing it well (or as well as can be hoped?). ( Crazy Workplace )
3. Finished The Haunting of a House on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
It's heavily based on Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. And follows along the same lines in that it is more of a psychological horror tale than a ghost story. The House is the problem here.
But Hand falls into the same traps she's fallen into in other books of hers that I've read. In which the final chapter is kind of no-holds barred chaotic crazy. Someone is metaphorically or literally eaten by the antagonistic entity, usually the romantic love interest of the protagonist (to the degree there is one), and the characters own self-absorption and paranoia does them in. As a result, of the last bit - it's hard to care what happens to the characters - and the emotional oompf of the story is kind of lost.
It is a creepy book - and bothered me up to a certain point. The first two-thirds, where the scares are more suggested - is the creepiest. The last portion is a little muddled and over the top - to be scary at all.
At any rate, I've mixed feelings about it. It kind of reminds me of The Devil Takes You Home - and I've the same issues with both? I don't care about the people. However, both were compelling. And this one moved at a much faster pace or clip than the other one did. I got through it fast.
But, I'm hankering for a Kingfisher. So am trying the first book in her Paladin series. Assuming, I don't get bored and jump to something else.
Off to bed. Tired.