{"id":116,"date":"2012-01-11T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:38:02","slug":"distrust-that-particular-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2012\/01\/11\/distrust-that-particular-flavor\/","title":{"rendered":"Distrust That Particular Flavor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/039915843X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rebuithetower-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=039915843X\">Distrust That Particular Flavor<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=rebuithetower-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=039915843X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nBy William Gibson<br \/>\n272 Pages<\/p>\n<p>Distrust is a collection of William Gibson&#8217;s non fiction writing offering a glimpse into the development of his ideas. \u00a0Each short story comes with a brief endnote from the author giving an idea of how he views the piece from the advantage of\u00a0hindsight. \u00a0The writing is still Gibsonian with pervasive juicy phrases that are fun to mentally chew on. \u00a0 He is clearly a bit uncomfortable with the non-fiction genre. \u00a0To cope he often\u00a0adopts the first person perspective in many pieces on subjects ranging from obscure 80s music to Japonica providing nice biographical tidbits. \u00a0The collection includes many Wired pieces including one of my favorites on &#8220;Disneyland with the death penalty&#8221; (Singapore). Its a shame he hasn&#8217;t\u00a0written\u00a0for Wired more recently. \u00a0Is this something to do with Anderson&#8217;s editorship? \u00a0By far the best part is to see references to various ideas Gibson is developing that get incorporated into his fictional writing. \u00a0A fun and quick read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distrust That Particular Flavor By William Gibson 272 Pages Distrust is a collection of William Gibson&#8217;s non fiction writing offering a glimpse into the development of his ideas. \u00a0Each short story comes with a brief endnote from the author giving an idea of how he views the piece from the advantage of\u00a0hindsight. \u00a0The writing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}