The second season started this past Sunday. I really like this program....a glimpse into the past of NY City in the style of Gangs of New York.

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I'm back to watching what I call the Trials of Sookie. Again..Sookie has someone that wants her blood/dead/destroyed. It's nice to see Sookie's grandfather...Nal to help her because there is no more boyfriend Eric and Bill is something "other"....I've read Billith and that fits.

Bill is scary evil now...and I don't think he realizes just what he can do. While in a catatonic state...he fed from a woman he put through all sorts of painful looking contortions.....quite spooky!

I still love Lafayette....and again...poor Sam!
Jessica plays the baby vamp well...while Tara is taking to her new nature like she was born to it.

The govenor is a force to be feared for vamps it seems...time will tell

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I became a fan of Repairman Jack after reading all the original adversary cycle novels back in the 80s and 90s. I've just got around to reading the last Repairman Jack (The Dark at the End) and am now reading the revised version of Nightworld. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed the slight error involved with the katana that first appeared in By the Sword? At the beginning of Fatal Error Rasalom tells Ernst Drexler to expect a package. Towards the middle of the same novel Ernst receives the package. Towards the end of The Dark at the End Ernst gives the package to Rasalom, who ends up using the katana inside to kill The Lady. However, at the beginning of The Dark at the End, Jack has possession of the katana. I understand that since Rasalom knew where Jack lived, he could have stolen the katana anytime he wished. But that would not explain how Ernst possessed it during Fatal Error, Jack had it at the beginning of The Dark at the End, and Rasalom had it at the end of the same novel (afterwhich, Jack again reclaimed it). Any suggestions out there?

Saw it today. A little flat on story but holy crap...THAT is how you make a Superman film!

What a game last night! Surprised to see Boston let one slip away, but I'm really happy they did!

Happy birthday and a promise to return to your favorite place.

Did all the repairman jack books get revised? What about The Touch and the other Adversary books?

While in Georgetown, a demonic little girl puked green in my face, knocking me out a window. No worry. I bounced back pic.twitter.com/bqBZROgdvr

So, just read the current newsletter and discovered Mr. Wilson's fascination with The Byrds. I also grew up in the era so I hopped over to Amazon to buy the book and then looked at the pic in the newsletter. Mr. Wilson - yours has a slipcase or tray case! I bet it's signed too! Where do I get one?

[h=1]I was late in the game when it came to his books, but what I've read I've really enjoyed.


Award-winning author Jack Vance dies at 96[/h]by Associated Press
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Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96.
Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland, his son John Vance II told the Associated Press.
Jack Vance, whose legal name was John Holbrook, published most of his work as Jack Vance, but he also wrote 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and three as Ellery Queen, as well as books under the pen names of Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See and Jay Kavanse, according to the Jack Vance website, which is maintained by family and friends.
“This is a complex guy, and (there’s) an awful lot to say about him,” John Vance told the AP.

GET EW ON YOUR TABLET: Subscribe today and get instant access! In 2009, a profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as “one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices,” according to the website.
Vance collected a number of awards over the years, including Hugo Awards for The Dragon Masters in 1963, The Last Castle in 1967, and for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance! in 2010.
“Author, friend, father and grandfather, there will never be another like Jack Vance,” his son said.
Born in San Francisco, Vance graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. He worked for a while as an electrician in the naval shipyards at Pearl Harbor, leaving about a month before the Japanese attack there, according to the website.
Described as a “blue-collar guy” by his son, Vance worked over the years as a seaman, a surveyor, and carpenter. His first book was published in 1945, but Vance did not establish himself as a writer until the 1970s.
Although legally blind since the 1980s, Vance continued to write with the aid of software, including his most recent novel, Lurulu, his son said. Vance had said Lurulu would be his final book, but he completed his memoir, which was published in July 2009.
In his later years, Vance suffered from poor kidney health and diabetes, which he which he maintained by diet control, his son said.