What Lies Beneath
Now that I've finally cleared enough work from around my computer that I can blog without laying eyes on some urgent task that needs to be done immediately, I thought I could mention that I'm back from my vacation. And what a vacation it was! I started out with the idea of just finishing off a few projects and ended knowing that I was going to have to remove most of the tin ceiling downstairs. In between that, there was the flood...
If you're looking for a book on plumbing, I can heartily recommend Plumbing: basic, intermediate, and advanced projects, with the caveat that, unless you live in a house less than 20 years old, your plumbing will never be as clean, modern, or in as convenient a place as "book plumbing". However, at this point I'm really looking for a distraction from thoughts of plumbing so I thought I'd step sideways, yet continue the general "too much water and associated disasters" theme with a quick look at Brian Keene's The Conqueror Worms.
I really needed something fun when I got back this Monday, plus I thought I'd try to find something about floods to really ramp up the irony.
The Conqueror Worms fit the bill admirably. In this classic apocalyptic B-movie scenario, interminable rains (possibly caused by black magic!) cover most of the earth and drive gigantic carnivorous earthworms to the surface in the only areas still left unflooded. This happens to be the mountains of West Virginia, so the narrator is an eighty year old good-old-boy living in the backwoods. I have to admit, this isn't the most well-written book I've ever read, but the over-the-top monster scenario was very diverting and made my own flood seem inconsequential by comparison. So, if you're in the mood for a quick
Cthulhu-esque novel, and don't mind wading through some clunky dialogue, open up this can of worms and see what happens.
