{"id":5396,"date":"2014-07-06T13:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T18:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2014-07-06T13:13:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T18:13:27","slug":"the-lives-of-tao-wesley-chu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/07\/06\/the-lives-of-tao-wesley-chu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lives of Tao &#8212; Wesley Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/books\/lives-of-tao.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"378\" alt=\"Cover of The Lives of Tao\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><strong><br \/>\nThe Lives of Tao<br \/>\nWesley Chu<br \/>\n393 pages<br \/>\npublished in 2013<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nI read this because Wesley Chu was nominated for the 2014 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer and it was available in the Hugos Voters Package. I&#8217;d also seen it recommended at the local science fiction bookstore and had picked it up once or twice to sample it, though was never convinced enough to buy it. Because I was visiting my hometown for a couple of birthdays this weekend I took the opportunity of two long train journeys to read this, which worked out well.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom Myke Cole&#8217;s cover blurb &#8212; pulse-pounding, laughout-loud funny and thoughtful &#8212; you might guess that this was meant to be an action comedy story, which it was, but without the humour. This just wasn&#8217;t funny, I&#8217;m not sure it was actually ever meant to be funny and if you read this, set your expectations accordingly. <cite>The Lives of Tao<\/cite> actually is a geek wish fulfilment sf thriller, where the fat, underachieving, nerdy slop is taken out of his comfort zone and thrust into a worldwide conspiracy and finally gets the girl he&#8217;s been silently lusting after but was afraid to ask out. There may be a bit of pandering in this, you may have guessed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/07\/the-lives-of-tao-wesley-chu\/\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lives of Tao Wesley Chu 393 pages published in 2013 I read this because Wesley Chu was nominated for the 2014 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer and it was available in the Hugos Voters Package. I&#8217;d also seen it recommended at the local science fiction bookstore and had picked it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[1929,1930],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-science-fiction","tag-the-lives-of-tao","tag-wesley-chu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","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=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}