{"id":1242,"date":"2009-07-17T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2011-10-29T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:25:33","slug":"fiction_dark_pl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/fiction_dark_pl.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, I wound up liking this book.  But if you had to choose only one of her books to read, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/11\/currently_recom.html\">Sharp Objects<\/a> is by far the better.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to really get involved in the story.  And it didn&#8217;t have the really intense (and awesome) imagery that Sharp Objects had, nor the inviting main character.  The mystery seemed much more ordinary to me \/ not as creative.<\/p>\n<p>However, at a certain point, I really couldn&#8217;t put it down. And even the things about it I was disappointed in were still well-written.  Similarly to Sharp Objects, however, there is a lot of really, really icky family stuff.  So, you know, if you can&#8217;t handle that, well, you may want to avoid this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, I wound up liking this book. But if you had to choose only one of her books to read, Sharp Objects is by far the better. It took me a while to really get involved in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/fiction_dark_pl.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}