#1) I'm in a contest with my friend, Sara, for getting more views on Youtube. Watch my video, and pass it on like a virus! I know it stinks, but in the spirit of competition, quantity beats quality! So watch it and pass it on. Only 633 more views to tie it up!
#2) Maybe you've seen or heard of Showtime's Dexter series; the story of an easy-to-love serial killer in Miami. The show was based on the book series by Jeff Lindsay, and I thought the show was clever, so I sought out the first two books.
The first book, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, followed the 1st season for a while, so I can't review it without a fair amount of bias, since knowing the end of mystery book does take away the body of it. But I think I can review the second, Dearly Devoted Dexter fairly fairly.
No spoilers, though.
Written very much like the first book, the second in this series is humorous, dark, but with a simplistic narrative style, making a noticably different character out of Dexter than Showtime's. Throughout the story, Dexter is pent-up and restless, and it really made me feel restless too. When was the action going to start up? Why was there only 1 death from our favorite serial killer in this story? It's true that in this volume, Dexter is trying to appear as normal as possible to throw off people's suspicions about him, but the combination of him doing it so well for so long and his antagonist's lack of evidence against him made this situation boring and seemingly drawn-out. The more action-y parts of the book involve another serial killer, whom we know little about and don't even meet until the final few pages, much like in the last book. Maybe if this part was a little more spread-out, I would have enjoyed the book more.
The story was immersive enough for me to speed through it in 3 days of commuter-reading, though. Probably the quickest 300-page read I've had since the Drawing of the 3, by Steven King. I liked the main character enough (which suprised me when I saw the show and read the first book, but seemed normal to me by now) but was annoyed when he failed to understand basic concpets on one page, and then on the next page quickly solve a murder case that had a federal agent baffled. Dexter is finally free to kill again in the final 2 pages of the book, which makes me think the 3rd installment would be a better read, but neither of the first 2 books got me as interested as the show did. I'll look at the 3rd book before I let go of this series, but honestly I'm much more excited about season 4 coming out later this year.
#PS) Next post I plan on my thing-a-month update. Look out for a new videobloggery by this Sunday, too!
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