Kiss The Dead

Laurell K. Hamilton has banged out 21 Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books.  The fact that her name is ten times larger than Anita’s is proof that the writer has become more important than the story.  While this a good thing for the publisher and the author, it’s not always a good thing for the reader. The first half of Kiss The Dead really got my hopes up.  We find Anita Blake acting as a US Marshall, chasing down bad guys, talking business with her Cop buddies.  She even mentions in passing that she sometimes works as a Reanimator.   There’s a…

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Monsters-A Classic Non-Action Movie

Ultra low budget film about an alternate Earth where NASA accidentally brings a race of giant octopus to Mexico.  The film opens with a couple of Humvees rolling into battle with a land walking octopus which appears to be several stories tall.   The soldiers spend a lot of time fire machine guns at the monster, which only serve to annoy the tentacle waving beastie.  They then call in Air Support and as the bombs drop we lose the picture and shift scene to. . . A bored photographer and a spoiled little rich girl with an injured arm.  For the…

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True Blood-They Are All Monsters

Season 3 of True Blood wraps up with a few finial twists and turns that show us that the Good Guys aren’t so good.  Our hero vampire Bill took a number steps this season that showed he was more evil than we thought.  His casual betrayals pop up throughout the season, with his constant backstabbing causing a rift in his relationship with Sookie. Our good old boy bartender Sam turns out to be more of a cold blooded killer and less of a poor misunderstood shapeshifter.  Sookie takes the time to torture an evil vampire and takes great pleasure in…

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