{"id":508,"date":"2009-12-14T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-12-14T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:25:08","slug":"unfin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2009\/12\/14\/unfin\/","title":{"rendered":"unfin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three Books<\/strong><br \/>\nThere have been three books this year that I just could not bring myself to finish, even though I read more than half of each of those books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"booktitle\">God Emperor of Dune<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">Frank Herbert<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutl\"><\/span>I read this rather bizarre book for the first time about a year after I had first read the original Dune. I didn&#8217;t even know there had been sequels to Dune at this point as my local library was my only source of books and they had never appeared on those shelves. I remember quite enjoying the book then, though puzzled as to why Duncan Idaho had seemingly become so important.<br \/>\nThis time the book was unbearable. The pompous archives of Leto&#8217;s memoirs, the paper flat secondary characters, ah the whole thing just became too painful to continue<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"booktitle\">The Well Of Stars<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">Robert Reed<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutl\"><\/span>The sequel to the strange, yet magnificent, Marrow got abandoned once I realized that the book was never going to advance the plot of the original and that I was meant to care about this new risk to the great ship. I didn&#8217;t care &#8211; resolve the original story!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"booktitle\">Beggars and Choosers<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">Nancy Kress<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutl\"><\/span>I finally picked out this to read from my shelves years after I bought it to finally see where Kress took the story after the end of Beggars In Spain. It was going OK, even though I had next to no time for the new characters until the author killed a character off in a way that the author had not earned. It annoyed me enough that I had to put it down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Books There have been three books this year that I just could not bring myself to finish, even though I read more than half of each of those books. God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert I read this rather bizarre book for the first time about a year after I had first read the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}