Resurrection premiered on ABC last night at 9PM. It’s off to a great start. I was taken in from the get-go. Based on the novel The Returned by Jason Mott, it is the story of a eight-year-old American boy who wakes up in a rice paddy in China. Presumed kidnapped, he is returned to the states, where there is no trace of him in missing persons reports. He asks the assigned FBI agent, played by Omar Epps, to take him home, and guides him to a nice house in a small Missouri town. The owner says his son, who looks exactly like the boy does, drowned 32 years ago. I don’t know how long such a premise can be extended. Although I’m hooked for at least one more episode, I hope the mystery does not drag on for years. Brad Pitt is one of the producers. Hollywood veterans Kurtwood Smith and Frances Fisher play the sixtyish parents, the father reluctant, the mother believing it's a miracle. The child is played by Landon Jimenez and, like so many kid actors before, is astonishing. The book has been rated by 398 contributors at Amazon to a consensus of 3.5. To my surprise, the Kindle version is $12, the price set by the publisher not the seller. And I thought A Hitch in Twilight was overpriced at six. I just don’t see how producing an e-book can be that costly to a publisher. Then again, the market has determined the price is right, as it is selling nicely. As I've said regarding sports and concert tickets, no one forces anyone to buy. In Mott’s case, the price hasn’t hurt sales. In mine, I’d bet it has. When WheelMan Press issued Exchanges and charged only two bucks for the Kindle, I was ecstatic, and it has resulted in more e-book sales than my other books.
Today's moderate temperature resurrected a couple of local characters. The floating book shop had a simultaneous visit from Mountain Man and Political Man. The former is even more cynical about politicians than I. The latter is unabashedly liberal. For the most part, I just stood there and listened to them rant, and laughed when they inevitably began reminiscing about their experiences with drugs. It went on for at least a half hour. Here's the type of report that sets MM off, culled from an article by Jamie Dupree, who talk-radio host Sean Hannity dubs "The Most Connected Man in Washington": "A report by internal investigators at the Environmental Protection Agency found that ineffective oversight at the EPA allowed federal workers to use government credit cards to buy gift cards, gym memberships, food and thousands of dollars in other items that were not properly approved for purchase by the agency in 2012. '75 of 80 reviewed transactions were not in compliance with EPA policies,' read a report from the Inspector General of the EPA issued last Friday." It's what I expect from government workers.
My thanks to the kind folks who bought books today.
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Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
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Vic's Horror Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
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