{"id":1261,"date":"2008-06-10T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2008-06-10T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T18:33:45","slug":"disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/disappointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. I finally got around to reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/just-read-to-read\/#Edge\">the Edge of Reason<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graemesfantasybookreview.com\/2008\/06\/edge-of-reason-melinda-snodgrass-tor.html\">lots of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/kingofthenerds.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/27\/review-the-edge-of-reason-by-melinda-snodgrass\/\">people on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curledup.com\/edgereas.htm\">the Internets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romantictimes.com\/books_review.php?book=35268\">seem to think<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/genregoroundreviews.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/edge-of-reason-melinda-snodgrass.html\">this was the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfrevu.com\/php\/Review-id.php?id=6897\">wonderful book<\/a> I was expecting, it just didn&#8217;t work for me. The plot was kind of interesting, but the rest of the craft just wasn&#8217;t there. <\/p>\n<p>The only review I could find that I agreed with was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/sfw\/books\/sfw18878.html\">Paul Witcover&#8217;s<\/a>. (As an aside, I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/w\/paul-witcover\/waking-beauty.htm\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/w\/paul-witcover\/tumbling-after.htm\">this<\/a>, so maybe it&#8217;s not surprising we agree here).<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m really afraid to go back and read those books I liked when I was a teen.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subterraneanpress.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=SP&#038;Product_Code=disch\">Disch<\/a> lives up to my expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Sigh. I finally got around to reading the Edge of Reason last night. Despite the fact that lots of people on the Internets seem to think this was the wonderful book I was expecting, it just didn&#8217;t work for me. The plot was kind of interesting, but the rest of the craft just wasn&#8217;t there. The only review I could&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/disappointed\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[458,143],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews","tag-books","tag-melancholy","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-kl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}