{"id":220,"date":"2004-01-19T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2004\/01\/19\/220\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:20:25","slug":"220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2004\/01\/19\/220\/","title":{"rendered":"220"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Gun, with occasional music<\/h4>\n<div class=\"test\">Jonathan Lethem<\/div>\n<p>This is Lethem&#8217;s first novel, which has lain in my &#8216;to read&#8217; pile ever since I bought it just after the paperback release.<br \/>\nThe recent excellent reviews for his latest novel &#8216;The Fortress of Solitude&#8217; lead to me finally picking it up reading it.<br \/>\nThe novel takes the form of a hard boiled &#8216;noir&#8217; detective story, but it&#8217;s set in a future dystopian America.  This is an America where government provided drugs are taken by the population to meet their own needs &#8211; to accept, to forget, etc.  It&#8217;s also a world with &#8216;evolution therapy&#8217; which allows animals (prominently in this story a kangaroo) to have human level intelligence, and for adults to become &#8216;babyheads&#8217; essentially an adult in a child&#8217;s body.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s got a pretty standard detective plot for all the sfnal contrivances around it, though.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s obvious that he&#8217;s got a fluent writing style and enormous talent.<br \/>\nHowever this book is no classic. The plot is superficial and the twist is obvious really early on in the story.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say that I really enjoyed reading it that much, but it&#8217;s by no means a bad book.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating:<\/strong> C-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun, with occasional music Jonathan Lethem This is Lethem&#8217;s first novel, which has lain in my &#8216;to read&#8217; pile ever since I bought it just after the paperback release. The recent excellent reviews for his latest novel &#8216;The Fortress of Solitude&#8217; lead to me finally picking it up reading it. The novel takes the form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}