{"id":2257,"date":"2009-08-07T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T19:18:05","slug":"book-trailer-inherent-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/08\/07\/book-trailer-inherent-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Trailer: Inherent Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RjWKPdDk0_U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RjWKPdDk0_U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been able to get through a book by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Pynchon\"><em>Thomas Pynchon<\/em><\/a>.  Well, I should reveal that I&#8217;ve only tried once with his <em>Against the Day<\/em>.\u00a0 Unreadable as far as I&#8217;m concerned.\u00a0 But I still went out and bought a copy of <em>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>James Joyce<\/em> is unreadable too and yet I still like him.\u00a0 I never hold unreadability against a writer because I know how truly stupid I can be while reading &#8211; sometimes falling asleep and having to reread many pages.\u00a0 But this video is probably the best book trailer I have ever seen.\u00a0 I&#8217;d been thinking that the book sounded like a bore, but this trailer has me digging into the side pouch of my briefcase to find some spare change for the bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing &#8211; whoever did the voiceover for this little movie is a stark raving mad genius.\u00a0 He should read the entire book out loud.\u00a0 I&#8217;d buy that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been able to get through a book by Thomas Pynchon. Well, I should reveal that I&#8217;ve only tried once with his Against the Day.\u00a0 Unreadable as far as I&#8217;m concerned.\u00a0 But I still went out and bought a copy of Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow.\u00a0 James Joyce is unreadable too and yet I still like him.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,4],"tags":[569,568,121,567],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-movies","tag-book-trailer","tag-inherent-vice","tag-novel","tag-thomas-pynchon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}