I thought -- is 30 GB enough? Am I going to have to be choosy about what I put on it? What will I leave off? Then I started loading a lifetime's worth of CDs onto it, and I noticed what little storage I was using. Not only did I not leave anything off, I put on things I'll probably never listen to. And I still have about 1/4 of the storage space free. Modern technology is grand. Almost 5000 songs, and I can carry it around in my pocket or hook it up to an FM transmitter in my car. Geekiest gadget I've bought in a while.
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Apr 03, 2007
I missed this one when it was first released
But it has some excellent songs on it. My Little Island is my favourite track, but I can listen to the whole thing over and over.
Jun 04, 2006
Revisiting a classic
Michael McDowell was a very popular paperback novelist in the 1980s and 90s, though he never really became a household name. The six-volume Blackwater series is, perhaps, his magnum opus. He published one book per month for six months, long before Stephen King repeated the feat with The Green Mile.
McDowell's brand of horror is understated, demure, leisurely. The series covers the lifespan of one complete generation of the Caskey family in Perdido, Alabama. The family is "infiltrated" by Eleanor, who becomes the matriarch, but whose affinity for water, and more specifically for the river that flows through Perdido, leads to some very strange deaths.
The series starts slowly, in the aftermath of a great flood in 1929, but picks up speed and interest in ensuing books, until the next great flood long predicted by Eleanor Caskey.
McDowell died in 1999, leaving behind an incomplete manuscript for a book called Candles Burning. Tabitha King, wife of Stephen King, was invited to complete the novel, which is now out in hardcover. Revisit the Blackwater series--or visit it for the first time--and then step into McDowell's final work. You won't regret it.