{"id":1368,"date":"2010-02-01T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2011-10-29T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T19:08:37","slug":"dadreaction_nos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/dadreaction_nos.html","title":{"rendered":"DadReaction: Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our November <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/dads_and_my_rea-4.html\">challenge <\/a>book. <em>I had to leave Dad in the lurch on this one, I just had too much school work in November (with finals in the beginning of December) to undertake this one. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><u>Dad:<\/u>  It was harder to get into than I expected \/ I remembered really liking Conrad.  It was one of those sort of prescient things that could be so easily adapted: a South American country gets sucked into the capitalism of the West, because of its resources.  Of course, this starts warping the society there;  you&#8217;re watching it happen.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interestingly written book: always taking some weird perspective, lots of flashbacks, leaving things behind.  You know ahead of time who makes it and who doesn&#8217;t, because he tells you throughout the text.  Odd hero as well:  he won&#8217;t marry the right chick \/ her dad kills him.  Very odd ending for a book about something else.<\/p>\n<p>Worth it but I did have to flog through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our November challenge book. I had to leave Dad in the lurch on this one, I just had too much school work in November (with finals in the beginning of December) to undertake this one. Dad: It was harder to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/dadreaction_nos.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":[13,46,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-challenge_09","category-dadreaction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","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=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}