{"id":4889,"date":"2013-11-06T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:59:31","slug":"i-am-trying-to-imagine-a-reader-who-wants-to-read-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/11\/06\/i-am-trying-to-imagine-a-reader-who-wants-to-read-this-book\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am trying to imagine a reader who wants to read this book&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAlexandra Petri <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/compost\/wp\/2013\/11\/05\/jeeves-and-the-wedding-bells-is-worse-than-bad-fanfiction\/\">is not happy at the Sebastian Faulks written authorised Jeeves &#038; Woster sequel<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nIf you want to read a story about Bertie and Jeeves where people deal with World War I and everything changes, go to the Indeed, Sir fanfiction archive where there is plenty of that, much of it better written. If you want to read a story about a young Wodehouse male who falls in love and gets into scrapes, read the \u201cIndiscretions Of Archie.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nBy the eighth page I was emitting a stricken woofle like a bulldog that has been denied cake. There had been the introduction of a girl with \u201cchocolate eyes\u201d and a kind heart who is far more beautiful than anyone Bertie Wooster has ever dated. Anyone who has read fanfiction will note the tell-tale sign of a Mary Sue, but I thought, surely not. Not in a first outing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nCourse, anybody with any sense who isn&#8217;t paid to read this book, would have dropped it at &#8220;the new Sebastian Faulks Jeeves and Wooster novel&#8221; because from that you can predict with a saddening certainty that it will be a cloying pastiche that may, at best, get some of the surface elements right, written by a smug, sad wanker far too pleased with his own writing talents to recognise how mediocre they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Petri is not happy at the Sebastian Faulks written authorised Jeeves &#038; Woster sequel: If you want to read a story about Bertie and Jeeves where people deal with World War I and everything changes, go to the Indeed, Sir fanfiction archive where there is plenty of that, much of it better written. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}