{"id":5078,"date":"2014-03-08T01:55:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2015-01-04T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:24:07","slug":"books-read-february-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/03\/08\/books-read-february-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFebruary was dominated by one book and one book only: Samuel R. Delany&#8217;s <cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/08\/dhalgren-samuel-r-delany\/\">Dhalgren<\/a><\/cite>, which I started at the beginning of the month and only finished in the last week of February. Very unlike me, I couldn&#8217;t read anything else beside it, because this was a book that demanded and got my full attention. I needed to concentrate to read it and when not reading it, I had no desire left for other books.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFortunately <cite>Dhalgren<\/cite> is a masterpiece, one of the greatest novels ever produced as science fiction, so I didn&#8217;t begrudge its monopoly claim on my reading.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, I did manage to squeeze one other book into my reading at the end of the month, K. W. Jeter&#8217;s <cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/09\/morlock-night-k-w-jeter\/\">Morlock Night<\/a><\/cite> which, as both Jeter and afterword writer Adam Roberts take great pains to tell you, is one of the books that created the steampunk genre back in the late eighties. I&#8217;m not actually sure I agree with that: there were steampunk books published before it that actually have more in common with the genre as it exists now than this book does. It&#8217;s also not as good a book as it thinks it is, glorified pulp ultimately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February was dominated by one book and one book only: Samuel R. Delany&#8217;s Dhalgren, which I started at the beginning of the month and only finished in the last week of February. Very unlike me, I couldn&#8217;t read anything else beside it, because this was a book that demanded and got my full attention. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078","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=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}