{"id":1761,"date":"2012-03-05T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2012-03-05T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:30:24","slug":"book-log-the-old-curiosity-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; The Old Curiosity Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Old Curiosity Shop<\/em> by Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Shop<\/em> clearly didn&#8217;t have the impact on me that <em>Copperfield<\/em> did, or even <em>Nickleby<\/em>.  Perhaps that&#8217;s why I waited 3 or 4 weeks to record it here.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to write &#8220;Welp, this was another fine novel by Dickens.  Uuuuyup.&#8221;  But that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do.  I enjoyed the read, but it didn&#8217;t resonate like other of his works.  The heroine Young Nell is a virtuous and noble character, but in the end, sort of un-interesting.  Everyone was just too immediately taken with her, and I didn&#8217;t really get why.  I guess she was just that cute.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I was a bit uncomfortable with just how detestable the dwarf character was.  I couldn&#8217;t fathom how such an absolutely un=likable, intolerable character could attain the level of power he had.  It was just&#8230; too much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens The Shop clearly didn&#8217;t have the impact on me that Copperfield did, or even Nickleby. Perhaps that&#8217;s why I waited 3 or 4 weeks to record it here. I hate to write &#8220;Welp, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1761\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[486,488],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2012","tag-dickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}