But mostly, the greatest written world I ever enjoyed, over probably two decades, was The Dark Tower. They made another Shining movie which was not as good as the Jack Nicholson version in early 1980s. They made another The Stand series, which was no better than the first miniseries in the 90s. Now if someone could just figure out how to make a decent movie or series using Stephen King novels, that would be nice. Anyways…probably enough time has passed that it made sense to start creating new series from her work, so I am glad to see it happening. She died in Dec 2021, and while I am a big Brad Pitt fan, the original Interview Vampire movie wasn’t all that great…you can’t cast Tom Cruise as a blonde vampire…so dumb. I saw a mention of yet-another AMC/Anne Rice series mention coming…seems like AMC making a big investment in her works. AMC just came out with the first Mayfair-related series, and I thought the first two episodes were pretty good so far. I had mixed feelings on the Interview with a Vampire series, but was overall ok and will check out season 2. Was a fan of the Lestat books and read the Mayfair/Lasher books too. I read a lot of Anne Rice in my early adult/college years. Update: they still haven’t found gold on Curse of Oak Island, but by gosh they probably will next week based on previews. Sort of like House of Dragons to Game of Thrones…similar, maybe not as good as original, but entertaining enough to enjoy watching all the way through. Just binged 2nd season of Vikings Valhalla on Netflix, which is set 100 years after events of the History Channel’s Viking series (which I also really enjoyed). Just re-listened to the first book in that series to get it fresh in my mind again “Delta-V”. I´m waiting for “Critical Mass” the new Daniel Suarez SF thriller, which will appear by the end of the month.

The Wrong Unit by Rob Dircks