I am seeing Vienna Teng play in Atlanta on Friday and am really excited. It’s at a really intimate venue in Decatur that holds maybe eighty people that I saw and met Sarah Bettens at last year. It should be amazing.
NajaHusband will be tres relieved. He turned it off in a fit of pique after Kaba Modern was eliminated due to Status Quo getting voted into the top two. We flat refused to watch the next two episodes. Kaba was robbed!
Meanwhile, I just picked up a copy of Lonesome Dove. It’s a little slow in the first few pages, but I’ve got high hopes. Anyone recommend the related movies or should I avoid them entirely?
Oh, that’s my favorite book. The mini-series is fantastic and very true to the novel. So true, in fact, that I wouldn’t watch it until after you finished the book. There are some things that just shouldn’t be spoiled. I love it.
You should pick up all the books in the series: Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon, (both prequels) and Streets of Laredo (the sequel). I haven’t seen the mini-series for Dead Man’s Walk, though I do own it on DVD, and I mean to watch it soon. I really enjoyed the recent Comanche Moon with Karl Urban and Steve Zahn, though it does suffer from being a prequel (the book manages to avoid the same problem, thank goodness).
I cannot stop watching Rock of Love 2, and I find myself really hoping that Bret Michaels finds the woman for him.
Ohh, thanks! I knew there were others, but thought I’d start with the big one to get a taste. I’m heading to the bookstore tomorrow though, do you think I should read them in chronological order, or published order?
I would definitely read Lonesome Dove first (first in publication order, 3rd chronologically). From there, I read them in this order: Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon, Streets of Laredo. But honestly, they’re all really self-contained novels, and while McMurtry makes various allusions and references throughout the series, he’s so adept that it’s never confusing.