The color was there in the purply - blue block of dripping paint slapped on the cover of my favorite book of the year, Durga Chew - Bose's
essay collection Too Much and Not The Mood (FSG Originals), a blue title if there ever was one.
Never mind that a purchase of the Legacy
collection whole (
essaying Dracula, The Wolf Man, and Frankenstein) proves to be far better for the soul than shelling out a few bones to catch Stephen Sommers's latest assault on sense and cinema, even if doing so feels a little like letting Universal have its cake and eat it,
too: There are worse things in the world than a mainstream shipwreck inspiring a vital resurrection.