{"id":1178,"date":"2009-01-12T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T02:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2009-01-12T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T02:42:57","slug":"whittling-down-the-reading-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/01\/12\/whittling-down-the-reading-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittling down the reading pile…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My stack of books keeps growing. Like my Netflix queue, but with more taunt. (As the pile of books sits, physically, by my bedside, whereas the Netflix queue is a bit more ethereal.)<\/p>\n

I just finished reading\u00c2\u00a0Feed by M.T. Anderson<\/a>\"\". It’s in the pile of books known as “work books”, aka books tangentially related to my job. (I’m not sure if\u00c2\u00a0What Went Wrong by Bernard Lewis<\/a>\"\"\u00c2\u00a0counts… I checked it out from the school’s library)<\/p>\n

I very much enjoy books and movies set in some dystopian future where people are reliant on, or slave to, some sort of “web” of information, and Feed<\/em> fit the bill perfectly. It’s billed as a “Young adult” novel, but I think it would be appropriate for anyone who has ever walked around in public with a bluetooth earphone in their ear… while not actually speaking with anyone.<\/p>\n

The basic premise of the book is that the internet is in your brain, and society has devolved significantly. Idiocracy meets Minority Report.<\/p>\n

It’s a good read. I’d highly recommend it if you’re feeling just a bit too connected these days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My stack of books keeps growing. Like my Netflix queue, but with more taunt. (As the pile of books sits, physically, by my bedside, whereas the Netflix queue is a bit more ethereal.) I just finished reading\u00c2\u00a0Feed by M.T. Anderson. It’s in the pile of books known as “work books”, aka books tangentially related to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-j0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}