{"id":264826,"date":"2008-09-26T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/09\/26\/another-entertaining-list\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:49","slug":"another-entertaining-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/09\/26\/another-entertaining-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Entertaining List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/book_extracts\/article4773601.ece\"><em>The Times<\/em><\/a> is this list of 10 books not to read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>9: <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> \u2013 J R R Tolkien<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<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\u2019s monstrous tome was the equivalent of a leper\u2019s bell: \u2018Unclean! Unclean!\u2019 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 Dune. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>3: <em>War and Peace<\/em> \u2013 Leo Tolstoy<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Way, way too long.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>2: <em>The Iliad<\/em> &#8212; Homer<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The very idea that you are somehow culturally incomplete without knowledge of Homer is ridiculous. The Iliad is one of the most boring books ever written and it\u2019s not just a boring book, it\u2019s a boring epic poem; all repetitive battle scenes with a lot of reproaching and challenging and utterances escaping the barrier of one\u2019s teeth and nostrils filling with dirt and helmet plumes nodding menacingly. There\u2019s a big fight between Achilles and Hector and that\u2019s about it. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times is this list of 10 books not to read: 9: Lord of the Rings \u2013 J R R Tolkien 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\u2019s monstrous tome was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,5666,8936],"class_list":["post-264826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-funny","tag-lists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356766,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264826\/revisions\/356766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}