I read Blindness a couple years ago. I did not reakize there was a sequel. I dreamed about it for a long time afterward.

Bill, I don't know for a fact that Seeing is a sequel, but the similarity in title and cover design certainly give that impression.

OK...I just read the jacket notes, and it appears that Seeing is a continuance of Blindness (is this a weird sentence, or what?). It picks up the storyline four years later.

The book has a 2006 copyright, so it's pretty new.

I'll still be waiting to see what you have to say about it. Can you give it a "scary" rating - or a "potential for nightmare" rating? I'm susceptible to nightmares and really try to limit my consumption of potentially nightmarish things. (Sometimes a Criminal Minds episode will give me nightmares, to give you an idea -- they typically don't come with a "viewer discretion advised" warning.)

Well, as we've seen in a prior post, what's scary to one person might be thrilling or simply interesting to another. But I'll try to assess the "potential for nightmare."

I have the same problem with some TV shows. For example, whenever I inadvertently switch onto The Today Show where Katie Couric is doing a "serious" piece. Blech.

So...why even watch "Criminal Minds"?

Mostly cause I really like Mandy Patinkin - he's an awesome actor. I also like several of the other actors - and it's thrilling to me to see people who actually practice their art with a show (vs. people who simply are famous). But then, I was a theater geek in high school. :) That and the idea of behavioral profiling is fascinating to me as well - so, the mixture of the two more than outweighs potential for nightmares. Plus, by and large, if I remind myself that "I will lie down and sleep for my hope is in the Lord" I get through.

I dunno...I just can't look at Patinkin without these words appearing in my brain: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die." ;-)