{"id":238,"date":"2009-10-26T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-10-26T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:21:43","slug":"review-of-peter-ackroyds-the-casebook-of-victor-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/review-of-peter-ackroyds-the-casebook-of-victor-frankenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Peter Ackroyd&#039;s &quot;The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In time for Halloween\u2014Here&#8217;s the url to my review of Peter Ackroyd&#8217;s new novel, <em>The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein<\/em>, published yesterday in the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>:<br \/>\nwww.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/books\/stories\/DN-bk_frankenstein_1025gd.ART.State.Edition1.4bcf98e.html<br \/>\nWhat I mentioned only obliquely: When the &#8220;monster&#8221; awakens, he immediately begins, um, touching himself. This seems kind of awkward and tossed-off, because there&#8217;s no sex to speak of in the novel. Maybe the monster was simply looking for a good time. He does ask &#8216;Victor&#8217; to create a woman for him, but it doesn&#8217;t happen. Stylistically the book seems pretty slapdash and wordy. Funny but many contemporary British novels seem that way to me. No doubt I&#8217;m hardwired to favor American minimalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In time for Halloween\u2014Here&#8217;s the url to my review of Peter Ackroyd&#8217;s new novel, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, published yesterday in the Dallas Morning News: www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/books\/stories\/DN-bk_frankenstein_1025gd.ART.State.Edition1.4bcf98e.html What I mentioned only obliquely: When the &#8220;monster&#8221; awakens, he immediately begins, um, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/review-of-peter-ackroyds-the-casebook-of-victor-frankenstein\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}