{"id":881,"date":"2009-04-09T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmentd.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2009-04-09T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:10:09","slug":"readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/readings","title":{"rendered":"Readings."},"content":{"rendered":"

In a William Gibson<\/strong><\/a> mood these days… getting back to the father of cyberpunk’s roots.\u00a0 Finished re-reading Burning Chrome<\/strong><\/a> and Neuromancer<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 I have a huge literacrush on Molly Millions<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I devoured the latest Discworld<\/strong><\/a> book, Making Money<\/strong><\/a> far too quickly.\u00a0 I dig Terry Pratchett<\/strong><\/a>, and the entirety of the Discworld… world.\u00a0 His characters are so flesh and blood real, and his writing just keeps getting better.\u00a0 He’s not afraid to tackle serious topics, and his humor is both light and dark, and that suits me just fine.\u00a0 Also read Nation<\/strong><\/a>, his latest non-Discworld book, and ripped through the Bromeliad<\/strong><\/a> trilogy, both of which are billed as “young adult” literature, but addresses some very adult topics (just like Pixar makes “kiddie” animated features… yeah, right).<\/p>\n

Currently in the middle of re-reading David Sedaris<\/strong><\/a>\u2032 When You Are Engulfed In Flames<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Such acid wit, razor sharp and wilting… especially when he turns the beam on himself.\u00a0 I think when I finish this I’ll be in the right frame of mind for…<\/p>\n

Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 What a fantastic writer, but so dark and sorrowful.\u00a0 I have to be in the right frame of mind to read Vonnegut, I have to brace myself mentally before diving in to keep from being drug down with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a William Gibson mood these days… getting back to the father of cyberpunk’s roots.\u00a0 Finished re-reading Burning Chrome and Neuromancer.\u00a0 I have a huge literacrush on Molly Millions. Sadly, I devoured the latest Discworld book, Making Money far too quickly.\u00a0 I dig Terry Pratchett, and the entirety of the Discworld… world.\u00a0 His characters are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-links","category-rambling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}