{"id":653,"date":"2003-08-05T20:11:37","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/653"},"modified":"2003-08-05T20:11:37","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T15:11:37","slug":"books-and-things-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/653","title":{"rendered":"Books, and things I like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown.  I really, really enjoyed them both.  I love conspiracy theories  to begin with, and I like stories that have things lurking under the surface.  I also enjoy puzzle solving.  Both books are definitely not written for the lowest common denominator.  <\/p>\n<p>In this vein I also recommend <font color=\"blue\">House<\/font> of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (which I&#8217;m currently re-reading) and its companion book, The Whalestoe Letters.  Also the movie Donnie Darko.  Dark, puzzling, and requiring of a lot of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Other movies along the same vein &#8211; Jacob&#8217;s Ladder, Brazil, Closetland.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have recommendations for me based on this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I really, really enjoyed them both. I love conspiracy theories to begin with, and I like stories that have things lurking under the surface. I also enjoy puzzle solving. Both books are definitely not written for the lowest common denominator. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}