“Wizard’s First Rule” (Terry Goodkind)
Supersite Ain’t-It-Cool News has gathered snippets of reviews for the pilot episode of Sam Raimi’s Legend of the Seeker, a show filmed in New Zeland and based on Terry Goodkind’s epic Sword of Truth series. Most of the reviews are less than flattering.
I must admit that, having read the first four [...]

Unless there’s a lot of demand, I won’t be posting very in-depth reviews of these episodes. There are plenty of new media people who do a much better job, most notably The 10th Wonder podcast. I still feel it incumbent on me to share my cursory musings.
A spirit walker, an ice queen, and the eponymous [...]

“The Graveyard Book” (Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors. I first fell in love with his writing after reading the brilliant, multi-layered American Gods. I enjoyed Stardust and Neverwhere almost as much. While I feel he missed a trick with the American Gods spinoff Anansi Boys, in general I hold Gaiman’s work [...]