I have something better to look forward to than the return of Glee!
I'll give you a moment to get over the shock.
As explained a few posts back, I actually did have other fandoms-slash-hobbies-slash-interests-slash-obsessions prior to Glee.
One of them was a lovely book series created by the ingenius mind of Dennis Lehane. Specifically the series was dubbed as the Kenzie/Gennaro (or Patrick/Angie) series. Two Boston P.I.'s that were not only childhood friends/sweethearts (however you saw it) but also on-again-off-again lovers, best friends, partners. What made the series for me (besides their oft partnership with Bubba, a crazed psychopath bodyguard that's absolutely loyal/attached to the due like a big rabid puppy) was the grittiness and the morally gray areas his storylines cast.
For those that haven't read the series front and back (like me), they most know of his work through the amazing film adaptations of his novels -- first with Mystic River (a stand-alone not part of the original series), then Gone Baby Gone (fourth book in the series), and coming-soon with Shutter Island (another stand-alone not of the series).
So moments ago I was watching the USA Network airing of "Gone Baby Gone" and doing some online researching when I came upon this long ago (two-three months old) article HERE.
Specifically this portion;
*SPOILER ALERT IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN/READ "GONE BABY GONE"*
Lehane credits the deliberately ambiguous conclusion of Gone, Baby. Gone – a novel about the kidnapping of four-year-old Amanda McCready – as the stimulus for reviving his interest in the series. In his still untitled sequel to that work, which Lehane expects to be published in 2010, Amanda is a teenager and has gone missing once more. Patrick Kenzie, now 44, is drawn into the case.
“I thought I would never write about them again,” said Lehane of his series characters in an October 5, 2009 Boston Herald article. “Then all of a sudden I thought, what would it be like if a girl walked back into your life that was part of the most guilt-inducing decision you had ever made.”
So... None the less I was OVERJOYED! Filled with abso-fucking-lutely with... oh yes, I will use this pun... GLEE!
*does a giddy dance* I would be more than happy to have THAT BOOK out before GLEE!
Why? Because I have been waiting at least FIVE fuckin' YEARS for the newest Patrick/Angie books! Shudder to think how long the hardcore-there from the start fans have been waiting!
So, yes, while I am currently addicted to Glee... I had just remembered (if only for an hour) that I did have a life before it.
.... *sigh* I guess one for the road, though.
Mr. Schue as a singing Nazi soilder (more importantly, singing and shuffling a Mel Brooks' masterpiece)?!
WIN!
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