{"id":1116,"date":"2004-07-23T07:46:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/23\/that-was-fast\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T01:53:52","slug":"that-was-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/23\/that-was-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"That was fast."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Of the new books I mentioned the other day, I&#8217;ve already finished reading <em>A Home at the End of the World<\/em>.  The story was really fantastic and touching, but I do agree with some of the criticisms on Amazon &#8211; namely, that the four &quot;narrators&quot; all spoke in essentially the same voice.  Cunningham wrote the book from the perspective of four characters &#8211; Bobby, Jonathan, Alice (Jonathan&#8217;s mother), and Clare, but for four individuals who came from divergent backgrounds, they all seemed to have the same vocabulary.  I think it might have worked better if written in third person (still keeping the device of the four points of view, but having the invisible narrator, with a singular voice, explain what&#8217;s going on).<\/p>\n<p>The story was phenomenal though &#8211; and now I&#8217;ve got my usual dilemma about the movie coming out.  Do I see it and potentially get annoyed at all the changes from the book?  I&#8217;ve heard really good things so it may be worth the risk.  And because of the movie, I&#8217;ve already got the actors&#8217; images in my head as the characters, so I&#8217;m less worried about feeling like the movie was miscast.  I suppose it&#8217;ll ultimately depend on how easy it is to see the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the new books I mentioned the other day, I&#8217;ve already finished reading A Home at the End of the World. The story was really fantastic and touching, but I do agree with some of the criticisms on Amazon &#8211; namely, that the four &quot;narrators&quot; all spoke in essentially the same voice. Cunningham wrote the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}