Musings of a Babylon Lurker

Stephen King in defense of Harry Potter

Thursday, August 16th, 2007 | books, fantasy, reviews | No Comments

Stephen King has nice article about the Harry Potter books here where he critisizes the critics reviews of the latest book of being made on a very hasty reading of the book in order to be first to publish a review.

The hasty reviewers , according to King, do not get the full benefit of the book by such a fast reading. I tend to agree.

Further he talks about the appeal of the books to children and adults alike, and stresses the develpoment of the main characters from children into young adults as an advantage of the books , the young audience grew up with the characters. Good point.

Finally he noted the magic of the books that keeps the children interested in reading, clearly showing that the (paper) book is certainly not dead, even in this age of electronic media.

Read the article and decide yourself.

Heroes on the BBC TV

Thursday, August 16th, 2007 | film and tv, scifi | No Comments

The series Heroes is now being shown on BBC television (BBC2) on Sunday nights and (this week : Thursday night – it seems to move a little around)

I like what I have seen until now on the local (Dutch) channel RTL5, but still a lot of eps to go in the first season.