{"id":218,"date":"2007-04-14T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=218"},"modified":"2007-04-14T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T19:41:00","slug":"arthur-c-clarke-disappoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Arthur C. Clarke disappoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am almost finished Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s <em>Childhood&#8217;s End<\/em> and it seems pretty stupid, so I am a bit disappointed.  Maybe something exciting will happen in the last fifteen pages, but so far the revealed explanations for things are way too supernatural for me to go &#8220;oh, wow!&#8221; and the ideas presented seem cliche nowadays.  Somebody had told me that this book was one of Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s greatest stories, but I sure hope not.<\/p>\n<p>After this book, I&#8217;ll have to go back to some Orson Scott Card for a while&#8230; I still have four or five books left to read in the Ender&#8217;s series.  Or perhaps I&#8217;ll go to a mystery novel, the classic tale of <em>The Moonstone<\/em>.  Yeah, I&#8217;ll probably do that and take a break from scifi for a few weeks.  And then I can turn <em>The Moonstone<\/em> into a musical&#8230; actually I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if someone has already done that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am almost finished Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s Childhood&#8217;s End and it seems pretty stupid, so I am a bit disappointed. Maybe something exciting will happen in the last fifteen pages, but so far the revealed explanations for things are way too supernatural for me to go &#8220;oh, wow!&#8221; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-3w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}