{"id":5873,"date":"2011-08-12T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2011-08-12T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:24:48","slug":"authors-on-great-books-they-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=5873","title":{"rendered":"Authors On &#8220;Great&#8221; Books They Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2301312\">Interesting piece<\/a>, if only for the gratification of confirming that many other people loath Holden Caulfield every bit as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest surprise: Several people (including John Crowley) naming <b>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/b> as their least-liked great book. I didn&#8217;t get far into it myself, but I&#8217;m not sure I gave it a fair shot. The problem is finding a big block of time (something I&#8217;m preciously short on) to give it another go, as I have the impression that it&#8217;s not amenable to the &#8220;one chapter a night&#8221; method I used to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/cache\/epub\/2701\/pg2701.txt\"><b>Moby Dick<\/b><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/billcrider.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/see-if-you-agree.html\">Bill Crider<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece, if only for the gratification of confirming that many other people loath Holden Caulfield every bit as much as I do. Biggest surprise: Several people (including John Crowley) naming Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow as their least-liked great book. I didn&#8217;t get far into it myself, but I&#8217;m not sure I gave it a fair shot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1137,1136,226,274,1135],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-catcher-in-the-rye","tag-gravitys-rainbow","tag-j-d-salinger","tag-john-crowley","tag-thomas-pynchon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}