No, I've not seen a slide show (per se). I've seen that additional pictures have been leaked or something, but you have a slide show or album? Squee?
Squee!! You liked it too!
Oh, yeah. It was a really fun book. (Well, you know, aside from all he carnage.) Those couple of things niggled at me, but I think you're right in that Schreiber was using them to tell a story and create an interesting artifact rather than purposely screw with things.
I think what bothered me was depicting Judas as a gleeful demon. In Scripture, it talks about how when Judas found out what was to become of Jesus, he was "seized with remorse" and returned the silver and knew he had sinned in a big way. But rather than stick around and seek forgiveness, he hung himself. (Judas is sort of a complex and maybe even perplexing character: selfish and arrogant and greedy and thieving and out to push his own agenda, betraying his friend to the end of that Friend being executed; and then, at the end, realizing he'd committed a horrible wrong and still not getting it, and killing himself.) I had problems picturing that kind of remorse ending up as a gleeful demon. Then I got to thinking about 2000 years in Hell, and multiply that by Hell-time, and how even Dean was on his way to becoming a demon, "liking"--for whatever reason--what he was doing. And within the context of Show, Judas as a demon made sense.
And Judas himself didn't play so much a part of the story as the noose and the shekels did. (Which, I don't know if there even is such lore about a noose, so that just made for a creepy fictitious artifact.)
I'm hoping the next book is as good. And if it could come out before we head to NC, I'd be very happy.
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Squee!! You liked it too!
Oh, yeah. It was a really fun book. (Well, you know, aside from all he carnage.) Those couple of things niggled at me, but I think you're right in that Schreiber was using them to tell a story and create an interesting artifact rather than purposely screw with things.
I think what bothered me was depicting Judas as a gleeful demon. In Scripture, it talks about how when Judas found out what was to become of Jesus, he was "seized with remorse" and returned the silver and knew he had sinned in a big way. But rather than stick around and seek forgiveness, he hung himself. (Judas is sort of a complex and maybe even perplexing character: selfish and arrogant and greedy and thieving and out to push his own agenda, betraying his friend to the end of that Friend being executed; and then, at the end, realizing he'd committed a horrible wrong and still not getting it, and killing himself.) I had problems picturing that kind of remorse ending up as a gleeful demon. Then I got to thinking about 2000 years in Hell, and multiply that by Hell-time, and how even Dean was on his way to becoming a demon, "liking"--for whatever reason--what he was doing. And within the context of Show, Judas as a demon made sense.
And Judas himself didn't play so much a part of the story as the noose and the shekels did. (Which, I don't know if there even is such lore about a noose, so that just made for a creepy fictitious artifact.)
I'm hoping the next book is as good. And if it could come out before we head to NC, I'd be very happy.
So. Pictures?