{"id":416,"date":"2010-07-18T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2010-07-18T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T18:41:40","slug":"on-rick-moodys-new-novel-the-four-fingers-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/18\/on-rick-moodys-new-novel-the-four-fingers-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"On Rick Moody's new novel, "The Four Fingers of Death""},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m reviewing Rick Moody’s new novel, The Four Fingers of Death<\/em>, which, after a rocky start, is turning out to be a fun read. A couple quick observations: It’s 700 plus pages, as in Infinite Jest<\/em> long long long. It’s wacky and rife with high Postmodern hijinks, like a cross between Wall-E<\/em> and Stephen King’s The Stand<\/em>, with a dash of Mark Leyner’s The Tetherballs of Bouganville<\/em> (1997), an underrated gem. Much of it’s about Mars, but the end involves a killer virus and a crawling hand. I think it will get a lot of attention soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m reviewing Rick Moody’s new novel, The Four Fingers of Death, which, after a rocky start, is turning out to be a fun read. A couple quick observations: It’s 700 plus pages, as in Infinite Jest long long long. … Continue reading →<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}