{"id":211,"date":"2006-12-12T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=211"},"modified":"2006-12-12T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T04:04:00","slug":"herzog-by-saul-bellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/12\/herzog-by-saul-bellow.html","title":{"rendered":"Herzog by Saul Bellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0142437298\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Herzog<\/a> is a series of mental letters.  Herzog, the main character, writes to everyone he knows and lots of people he doesn&#8217;t know about whatever&#8217;s on his mind.  I don&#8217;t think he ever mails these letters.  He may not even write them down.  But Herzog (the book) is the compilation of letters he&#8217;s writing in his head mixed in with some narrative.  As the book goes on, there are fewer letters and more action.  This probably means he&#8217;s getting better (mentally).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a confused jumble of a book.  I&#8217;m not sure I came to care about Herzog (the character) as much as I&#8217;d need to to really enjoy it.  Some of the letters deal with Herzog&#8217;s professional life as a literature critic\/professor and those got pretty technical and were boring.  Others deal with his messy divorces and current relationship.  Those parts were much more interesting.  Overall, it was a book to slog through with brief bursts of flowing interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herzog is a series of mental letters. Herzog, the main character, writes to everyone he knows and lots of people he doesn&#8217;t know about whatever&#8217;s on his mind. I don&#8217;t think he ever mails these letters. He may not even write them down. But Herzog (the book) is the compilation of letters he&#8217;s writing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}