New releases
Dean Koontz (Associated Press photo)
Since this is Thanksgiving week, the holiday shopping season is officially getting started – though smarty-pants early birds like my sister already have their shopping pretty much wrapped up, darn them. That means record labels, movie studios and publishing houses are throwing a wide variety of high-profile new releases out into the marketplace for what they hope will be a big-spending free-for-all on the part of consumers.
Everything also gets a bit looser and freer when it comes to actual release dates this time of year. For example, this week’s CDs include Sunday’s long-awaited drop of Guns N’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy,” Monday releases from Kanye West and The Killers, and the Tuesday newcomers including Coldplay (whose EP “Prospekt’s March” can be bought alone or in a deluxe edition with “Viva La Vida”), Trace Adkins and Fireman.
The long string of summer blockbusters making their way to DVD in time for Christmas continues this week with “Hancock.” Will Smith’s unconventional superhero movie is available in a two-disc unrated edition.
And in the books section, Dean Koontz, one of my personal faves, releases his latest thriller, “Your Heart Belongs to Me.” I’m looking forward to reading it, but it hasn’t slipped my notice that this is not, in fact, the long-awaited third book in the Christopher Snow trilogy that was promised oh-so long ago.
Here is the list of this week’s new CDs, DVDs and books from Amazon.com, VideoETA.com and BarnesandNoble.com. (Our Web guys are doing some updates, so I can’t add any pictures to my posts right now, but I will as soon as I’m able.)
CDs
Guns N’ Roses, “Chinese Democracy.”
Coldplay, “Viva La Vida/Prospekt’s March” (Deluxe Edition).
Trace Adkins, “X (TEN).”
Kanye West, “808s & Heartbreak.”
Tom Jones, “24 Hours.”
David Byrne, “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.”
Fireman, “Electric Arguments.”
The Killers, “Day & Age.”
Scott Weiland, “Happy in Galoshes.”
Ludacris, “Theater of the Mind.”
DVDs
2008 World Series: Phillies vs. Rays
24: Redemption
Beautiful Ohio
Beverly Hills 90210: The Sixth Season
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
Fred Claus
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: The Final Season
Hancock
Larry the Cable Guy’s Star Studded Christmas…
Meet Dave
The Mod Squad: Season 2 Volume 1
Slap Shot 3: The Junior League
Space Chimps
Books
Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz.
Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler.
Crossroads by Belva Plain.
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman.
The Pagan Stone: The Sign of Seven Trilogy by Nora Roberts.
-BAM
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You know, after ten years, I’m almost prepared to give up on the third Christopher Snow book. I’ve decided he just can’t figure out how to end it. He’d rather keep writing Odd Thomas books. Unfortunately, I can’t quite bring myself to care about this character. Maybe it’s because I miss the old upbeat Dean Koontz. No matter what horrible things happened to the characters in his books, they were still hopeful.