Books and Films

Over the last few weeks, I have steadily been working my way through the Morse series. I don't know if it is a particularly healthy thing, but I seem to identify with him; from the crosswords to the ale to the disillusionment and loneliness.

In addition, I've watched all 4 Crow films. I had watched the first with Brandon Lee years ago and loved the whole Gothic atmosphere and soundtrack. The 4th is the weakest by far of the set, where the bad guy, nicknamed "Death", is obsessed with making himself the Devil incarnate, and it is up to The Crow to stop him.

The 2nd reintroduces Sarah as a seer and show her befriending a street girl, that seemed to be setting the scene for the next story in the sequence, though it didn't work out that way.

I've read the novels "No Mercy" and "Sleepyhead", which are both forensic crime thrillers. The plot devices in "No Mercy" were a bit predictable, and were transparently links to the next action sequence. "Sleepyhead" was different in that the killings were accidental - he sought to force his victims to exist in a permanent paralysis unable to function without the assistance of the outside world.