{"id":762,"date":"2013-09-09T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:27:35","slug":"review-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/review-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/434\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1314101654m\/434.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ghosts\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/434\">Ghosts<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/296961\">Paul Auster<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/715382223\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      Took me three days to read this novel. Blame it on the weekend\u2014I\u2019m busier on weekends. Blame video games, football games, other distractions. Blame <i>City of Glass<\/i>, which impressed me in no way. Blame mostly this so-called existentialism. I guess I just don\u2019t get it. I take no pride in that ignorance, you know. <i>Ghosts<\/i> is sixty pages of I don\u2019t know what. (Is that even a novel. Is that even a novelette. Should I not be reviewing these titles individually). <\/p>\n<p>All of the characters have colors for names. Real names are reserved for referenced movie stars and the characters they play, or for the disguises main character Blue dons. So what? Yeah, so what.<\/p>\n<p>I said existentialism (cause that\u2019s what it says on the ironic \u201cpulp\u201d style cover of the novel: \u201cA Penguin Existential Mystery.\u201d But all the critics say \u201cpost-modern.\u201d Here. I think \u201cpost-modern\u201d means \u201cA writer who\u2019s been published before has been published again and since other folks said what he wrote was good this must be good too but we don\u2019t get it at all but we still have to say we do or we look like idiots.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, we have entered the post-post-modern age, thank goodness. Nevertheless, on for me to the next one in this Trilogy. I wonder if it will also have a guy watching a guy and losing himself.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/715382223\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghosts by Paul Auster My rating: 2 of 5 stars Took me three days to read this novel. Blame it on the weekend\u2014I\u2019m busier on weekends. Blame video games, football games, other distractions. Blame City of Glass, which impressed me in no way. Blame mostly this so-called existentialism. I guess I just don\u2019t get it. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/review-ghosts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Ghosts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}