Friday, September 24, 2004

Man Booker Prize Shortlist

I have made a separate page for the Shortlist of the Man Booker Prize. The Master made it to the shortlist.

I also added a page for Dark Shadows DVD Collections.There are fifteen collections published so far. I watched that show from early 1969 (or 1968?) to the end. In the first episode I saw, Quintin, the 19th-century David Selby character, had just returned to Collinwood. His older brother Edward said he had threated to kill him if he ever returned. Quintin seems to have run off with Edward's wife who was also a phoenix. I really enjoyed the literary references to Henry James, Poe, and just about every other gothic source imaginable. You'd think someone would notice the jail in the cellar. What a funny show! I liked the time-travelling when characters would go into a room and enter another time period. You never know who would be behind a door or what would be going on. The wide-eyed children based partly on the characters in "The Turn of the Screw" were always seeing shocking things.