{"id":13292,"date":"2008-09-17T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:46:47","slug":"10-books-not-to-read-before-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/17\/10-books-not-to-read-before-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"10 books not to read before you die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <i>Times Online<\/i> comes a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/book_extracts\/article4773601.ece\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;10 Books Not To Read Before You Die,&#8221;<\/a> excerpted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cant-Be-Arsed-Richard-Wilson\/dp\/1906032378\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Wilson&#8217;s upcoming book, <i>Can&#8217;t Be Arsed: 101 Things Not to Do Before You Die<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wedged between <i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i> at &#35;1 and <i>Ulysses<\/i> at &#35;10 is <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i>. According to Wilson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best I can say about this book is that it was a very useful tool at school for helping to choose your friends. Carrying a copy of Tolkien&#8217;s monstrous tome was the equivalent of a leper&#8217;s bell: &#8216;Unclean! Unclean!&#8217; I knew I would have nothing in common with anyone who had read it. Their taste in music, clothes, television, everything was predetermined by their devotion to Gandalf. Without a shadow of a doubt, in a few years, these people would be going to Peter Gabriel gigs and reading <i>Dune<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Times Online comes a list of &#8220;10 Books Not To Read Before You Die,&#8221; excerpted from Richard Wilson&#8217;s upcoming book, Can&#8217;t Be Arsed: 101 Things Not to Do Before You Die. Wedged between Pride and Prejudice at &#35;1 and Ulysses at &#35;10 is Lord of the Rings. According to Wilson: The best I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13294,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions\/13294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}