{"id":64,"date":"2005-04-03T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=64"},"modified":"2005-04-03T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-03T15:09:00","slug":"armageddon-by-leon-uris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2005\/04\/armageddon-by-leon-uris.html","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon by Leon Uris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385003560\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Armageddon<\/a> isn&#8217;t one of his better books.  In fact, I gave up on it about halfway through.  It&#8217;s too thick and there are too many better things to read.  I brought it on an airplane and it couldn&#8217;t even keep my attention there, where there was nothing else to do.  The characters are flat, the dialogue wooden, and the plot not very believable or interesting.  I see glowing reviews for this book on Amazon, so perhaps I was missing something, but I&#8217;d recommend <a style=\"text-decoration: none\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553258478\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Exodus<\/a> or <a style=\"text-decoration: none\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/055327094X\/tradgirl\" target='new'>QB VII<\/a> over this one for sure.  The fact that they&#8217;re still in print and Exodus isn&#8217;t should tell you something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armageddon isn&#8217;t one of his better books. In fact, I gave up on it about halfway through. It&#8217;s too thick and there are too many better things to read. I brought it on an airplane and it couldn&#8217;t even keep my attention there, where there was nothing else to do. The characters are flat, the [&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-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}