{"id":2196,"date":"2009-02-02T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2009-02-02T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T15:10:26","slug":"book-reviews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/02\/02\/book-reviews-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/27\/books\/27kaku.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">Compare<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/01\/books\/review\/Scott-t.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">contrast<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThat first one has some good book review snark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>T. C. Boyle&#8217;s dreary new novel, &#8220;The Women,&#8221; isn&#8217;t a rewrite of Clare Boothe Luce&#8217;s wicked 1936 play &#8220;The Women.&#8221; It&#8217;s a rewrite of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright that somehow manages to turn the gripping, operatic saga of America&#8217;s premier architect and the women in his life into a tedious, predictable melodrama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.  Followed by a discussion of the backwards in time narrative technique:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately for the reader, this inorganic, needlessly complex architecture &#8212; of the sort that Wright would utterly disdain in a building &#8212; serves no discernible purpose. Time scrolls back into the past not to reveal a more innocent or idealistic hero, but simply to underscore Wright&#8217;s perennial egotism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-ha-ha","category-read-you-tweed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}