Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been noticing a very strange trend with my brother and his friends. I’ve managed to get him hooked on a couple of things over the years. Back in junior high I introduced him to the Dragonlance series. He enjoyed it and passed it along to a couple of friends who liked it too.
A few months ago I finally convinced him to read “A Game of Thrones” by George R. R. Martin. It’s just an amazing series that completely engages the reader in a fully realized world that is strange and familiar at the same time. Yesterday I finally convinced him to watch a few episodes of “Dexter” online. He went through five of them.
So now he’s passing these things along to his friends. He has three now reading Martin’s books and two others watching “Dexter.”
Somehow I think my brother is like Mikey from the old Life commercials. Mikey doesn’t like anything. Give it to Mikey, if he likes it, it must be good.