{"id":1285,"date":"2007-08-20T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2007-08-20T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T13:30:26","slug":"on-reading-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"On Reading Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/julioangelortiz.net\/\">Julio Angel Ortiz<\/a>&#8216;s website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>What are you reading right now?<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Le Morte d&#8217;Arthur<\/i>, Sir Thomas Malory<\/li>\n<li><i>Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age<\/i>, Chris Bennett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Do you have any idea what you\u2019ll read when you\u2019re done with that?<\/b><br \/>Nope.<\/li>\n<li><b>What magazines do you have in your bathroom right now?<\/b><br \/>None.<\/li>\n<li><b>What\u2019s the worst thing you were ever forced to read?<\/b><br \/>Forced to read?  <i>The Pearl<\/i>, by John Steinbeck.  What a dreadful piece of shit.<\/li>\n<li><b>What\u2019s the one book you always recommend to just about everyone?<\/b><br \/>David Gerrold&#8217;s <i>Worlds of Wonder<\/i>.  It&#8217;s his book on writing science fiction, but I&#8217;ve found his ideas applicable to <i>everything<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Admit it, the librarians at your library know you on a first name basis, don\u2019t they?<\/b><br \/>Nope.  When was I last <i>in<\/i> a library?<\/li>\n<li><b>Is there a book you absolutely love, but for some reason, people never think it sounds interesting, or maybe they read it and don\u2019t like it at all?<\/b><br \/>I found K.W. Jeter&#8217;s <i>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/i> novel <i>Warped<\/i> to be a good, challenging piece of work &mdash; <i>Star Trek<\/i> mixed with a phildickian mindfuck, basically &mdash; but it&#8217;s pretty much hated across the board and has been blamed for starvation in Africa and ethnic cleansings in Freedonia the last time I checked.  I wouldn&#8217;t say I <i>loved<\/i> the book, but it&#8217;s nowhere near as bad as its reputation.<\/li>\n<li><b>Do you read books while you eat? While you bathe? While you watch movies or TV? While you listen to music? While you\u2019re on the computer? While you\u2019re having sex? While you\u2019re driving?<\/b><br \/>Yes.  No.  Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  How would that <i>work<\/i>?  No.<\/li>\n<li><b>When you were little, did other children tease you about your reading habits?<\/b><br \/>I was little?<\/li>\n<li><b>What\u2019s the last thing you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldn\u2019t put it down?<\/b><br \/><i>Star Trek: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows<\/i>, by David R. George III.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on Julio Angel Ortiz&#8216;s website: What are you reading right now? Le Morte d&#8217;Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age, Chris Bennett Do you have any idea what you\u2019ll read when you\u2019re done with that?Nope. What magazines do you have in your bathroom right now?None. What\u2019s the worst<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1285\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Reading Reflections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[230,4107,4101,395],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-king-arthur","tag-memes","tag-reading","tag-star-trek-novels","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}