{"id":1281,"date":"2008-07-03T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T03:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2008-07-05T00:43:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:43:05","slug":"its-real-its-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/its-real-its-here\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Real. It’s Here."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Implied<\/a><\/p>\n

My copy of this finally<\/a> arrived on Wednesday (shortly after copies hit Pitcairn’s Island<\/a>)–and despite poker night followed by an hour of Australia work email very late at night, I still started into it. Thursday morning was… um… not ideal.<\/p>\n

The book though, is great. I only got through around a hundred pages that night before I had to give in to sleep, but it was more than enough to know the book would be everything I hoped it would, and that it would more than live up to the hype. <\/p>\n

Falling into the book was like putting on a perfectly tailored suit, made from the finest materials: Williams’ craft is so impressive as to verge on the awesome, drawing you into the story like slipping into something perfectly tailored, and then he starts hitting you with the ideas<\/em>. Damn.<\/p>\n

You know how the best live shows are the ones where a really, really competent band is obviously having so much fun<\/strong> playing? Same thing with books.<\/p>\n

I may write more about it later, and about my long standing thesis<\/a> that today’s authors owe a significant debt to Williams that deserves rather a lot more acknowledgement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My copy of this finally arrived on Wednesday (shortly after copies hit Pitcairn’s Island)–and despite poker night followed by an hour of Australia work email very late at night, I still started into it. Thursday morning was… um… not ideal. The book though, is great. I only got through around a hundred pages that night before I had to give… Read more →<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-kF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","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=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}