The Rider...

Interesting interview with Christopher Eccleston in SCI FI Weekly. His wry, noncommittal style always makes me smile. For instance:

Question: What compelled you to sign on for The Dark Is Rising?
Eccleston: It was paid work.

Really, I'm sure they'd give him more paid work as Claude on Heroes, and I'd love to see it.

Question: What did you make of working with your director, David Cunningham?
Eccleston: Mr. Cunningham and myself are very different animals, but we got the job done.

I still haven't entirely decided whether I want to see The Seeker - and I must say, I'm glad they renamed it, it makes it feel less like a corruption of the book. On the other hand, why do I care? I didn't much like the book. But... on principle, I care.

So why go to a movie about a theme I don't like, with trailers that didn't draw me, from a book I didn't like? Because it's Christopher Eccleston, of course.

With, I predict, not much screen time.

But though nothing else in the trailer appeals to me, Eccleston looks irresistible.

The Blood Red Sea

I read an interesting thriller: The Blood Red Sea by Ron Faust. It was stylistically very well written - I particularly liked the first chapter, which is only about a page and a half long. Very catchy. The characters, on the whole, were interesting as well.

But I've never read a book in which so many characters change their mind so often. It's about a lawyer named Dan Shaw, recently out of law school, who hasn't had much success as a criminal lawyer - or, obviously, much interest in the work - and has pretty much changed his mind about being a criminal lawyer. So he takes his boat and goes away to sea.

Floating in the Caribbean, miles from anyway, he come across a woman in the water. Her name is Kate. She's been swimming for more than a day; she says he husband threw her overboard in an attempt to murder her. Dan falls in love, takes up the challenge and the case, and determines to save the damsel, rescue her son (who is still with the husband), kidnap the boy, and save the day.

Except she changes her mind ( about the situation... )

Maybe Ron Faust changed his mind about what he was trying to write.

FIC: Torchwood (Drabble) - Fall into Grace

Title: Fall into Grace
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Characters: Jack/Nine
Challenge: tw100 challenge: fall
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances". Cross-posted to my LJ, and tw100.

( Fall into Grace )