{"id":1198,"date":"2009-08-30T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2009-08-30T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T20:22:00","slug":"10-books-that-dont-get-enough-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"10 Books That Don’t Get Enough Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Prof. Reynolds<\/a>, Brian Francis Slattery’s “ten books that don’t get enough respect<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And the only one that I have read is Little, Big<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, because I have been a John Crowley<\/a> fan since high school.<\/p>\n

Some of the others looks interesting. Nostromo<\/a>\"\"<\/em> is in the class of “always heard of it but never read it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Prof. Reynolds, Brian Francis Slattery’s “ten books that don’t get enough respect.” And the only one that I have read is Little, Big, because I have been a John Crowley fan since high school. Some of the others looks interesting. Nostromo is in the class of “always heard of it but never read it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":907,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=907","url_meta":{"origin":1198,"position":0},"title":"Some Shinto Priests","author":"Chas S. 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