Dexter Questions

I got a Netflix subscription & so far it's working out fantastically. Love Torchwood, love it, love it, love it. Rob's motored his way through four seasons of Doctor Who, the Sarah Connor Chronicles & The Dresden Files. Now we're looking for new stuff to watch when we're done w/Torchwood.

For those of you who watch Dexter religiously... does it have graphic scenes of animal abuse or killing? I ask this because of Rob. Seeing animals being hurt or abused in t.v. & movies freaks him out. Watching The Men Who Stare at Goats was touchy - fortunately the goat just tipped over & that was that (other than that scene, it was a great movie). I'd hate to get into Dexter only to have him flashback to being a kid & doing horrible shit to a bunny or something & Rob having a panic attack over it.

Anyway, if you know let me know... it's a serial killer 'thing' which is why I ask...

30 Days of Books - Day 19

Day 19 – Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!)

I don't pay much attention to book covers. Le gasp, I know, some serious artwork goes into some of them, people spend a lot of time planning them, they play into the whole marketing of the book, etc. Obviously, ya gotta put something on a cover. 99% of the time, it could be completely blank & just have the title and author's name on it and it'd make as big an impression on me as those ones that wrap around from the front to the back & are done by someone moderately famous. I never cared much about album covers, either (yes, I am old enough to remember not only records, but the importance of album cover artwork) except for the Eagles' album with the eagle skull on it that scared me endlessly when I was a kid.

The ones I do enjoy are mostly on mass-market paperbacks, where the cover has a cut out that displays a small portion of the inner leaf, and when you open the cover, the bigger picture is usually vastly different than what's seen on the outside. Like the Flowers in the Attic books.



The inside cover of the second edition of Stephen King's Misery was a classic, too.



What I enjoy more than book covers are maps on the inner cover page. It's been a source of much frustration that libraries usually deface the maps to glue or otherwise fasten the book jacket to the inside of the books, thereby rendering half the map unreadable and unreachable. I like maps, especially ones of fantasy lands, places with no equivalent locations to earth. I'd love to have a map of the Imajica. I also like prehistoric maps, trying to figure out where modern landmarks are in comparison to where they might have been.

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