{"id":537,"date":"2007-08-09T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=537"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:32:40","slug":"fiction_remaind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/08\/fiction_remaind.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: “Remainder” by Tom McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very cool and mysterious book. Really takes you a place you’re not expecting. Man severely injured in an accident he can’t even remember receives an 8 million pound settlement. The way he sets about spending the money…is not anything you could ever dream up. Wow. Intricate and extremely plotted, the general evolution of his plan was quite spell-binding. I really didn’t want to put this book down.<\/p>\n

Ultimately I felt this was a book about control, with the main character the boy version of the girls from, say, “An Invisible Sign of My Own”<\/A> or “Sharp Objects”<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very cool and mysterious book. Really takes you a place you’re not expecting. Man severely injured in an accident he can’t even remember receives an 8 million pound settlement. The way he sets about spending the money…is not anything you … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}