Dangerous Men and Gold Watches

Okay, so I finished Charlie Huston's A Dangerous Man which brings the Henry Thompson trilogy to an end. I'll just say again how freaking great this series is. I can't recommend it enough.

I also just got done with my "read-on-the-train-book" - a John D. McDonald novel called The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything. I picked this up pretty randomly at a used bookstore cause I liked the old school cover and the fact that it was an original pulp from the sixties with a 35 cent cover price. Cost me two bucks.
























When I sat down to read it, I realized it was about a guy who inherits a gold watch that can stop time, and there was a tv movie based on this book with Robert Hays (the guy from Airplane) that I saw as a kid and was obsessed by. So this was a neat coinkindink. Anyway, it's a great little book - weird, funny, and suspenseful - and I recommend it too.

On a somewhat related note, I read another book with the same "time-stop" concept a few years back called The Fermata by Nicholson Baker. It's basically the same thing but in this one the guy who can stop time is kind of a pervert. Just let your mind run with that. It's an interesting book if you have a bit of a dirty mind. It's pretty porno though.

Okay, I'm gonna go out and pick up Charlie Huston's vampire series now.

Here's a quick vamp sketch in that vein.



















Har.