{"id":1150,"date":"2004-04-21T23:22:02","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T03:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/reading-update\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T14:11:01","slug":"reading-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/reading-update\/","title":{"rendered":"reading update."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I did finish reading both <em>A Conspiracy of Paper<\/em> and <em>Touching the Void<\/em> so far.  Conspiracy&#8230; was really great.  lot&#8217;s of intrigue, a somewhat murky and unsatisfying (for the protagonist) ending (like real life).  I&#8217;m looking forward to reading his more recent books, including the sequel.  Touching the Void was really incredible.  Even knowing how it ends (having seen Joe Simpson on Letterman a few months ago, not to mention that he obviously survived in order to write the book!), I was on the edge of my seat and couldn&#8217;t put it down until I was done.  Just the sheer force of will required for him to stay alive under such extreme circumstances&#8230;amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did finish reading both A Conspiracy of Paper and Touching the Void so far. Conspiracy&#8230; was really great. lot&#8217;s of intrigue, a somewhat murky and unsatisfying (for the protagonist) ending (like real life). I&#8217;m looking forward to reading his more recent books, including the sequel. Touching the Void was really incredible. Even knowing how [&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-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-iy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}