{"id":1352,"date":"1996-07-16T17:15:24","date_gmt":"1996-07-16T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:16:27","slug":"lunatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Lunatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Lunatics<\/em> by Bradley Denton<\/h3>\n<p>Six of us got together on July 16 to discuss Bradley             Denton&#8217;s <strong>Lunatics<\/strong>, which has been described as a             &#8220;coming of middle age&#8221; novel. The book, set in Austin,             is about how a group of late-thirtiesh friends reacts             when one of them claims to be dating a goddess from the             moon. The book mixes humor and drama well. We all liked             the book. Interestingly, women readers tended to like             it more than the men did. Comments included &#8220;the women             in the book are well-done but not too catty&#8221;, &#8220;I liked             how the goddess had difficulty with high heels&#8221;,             &#8220;&#8230;best portrayal of women by a man since Tom             Robbins&#8221;, and &#8220;&#8230;even though this is not the type of             book I usually read, I loved it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunatics by Bradley Denton Six of us got together on July 16 to discuss Bradley Denton&#8217;s Lunatics, which has been described as a &#8220;coming of middle age&#8221; novel. The book, set in Austin, is about how a group of late-thirtiesh friends reacts when one of them claims to be dating a goddess from the moon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}