{"id":2492,"date":"2007-04-01T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2007-04-01T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T02:02:00","slug":"2492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2492","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I think maybe the most interesting thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v29\/n06\/stur01_.html\">this argument for not reading<\/a> &#8212; or, rather, fot being given free rein to still discuss books you haven&#8217;t read &#8212; is that it reveals the existence of <i>Qui a tu\u00c3\u00a9 Roger Ackroyd?<\/i>, which apparently rethinks the twist ending of Agatha Christie&#8217;s <i>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd<\/i>, suggesting that Christie herself got it wrong. While <i>Ackroyd<\/i> isn&#8217;t my favorite Christie novel &#8212; nor, I think, anywhere near her best &#8212; it is an interesting book, and one that I <i>have<\/i> read. I&#8217;d be interested in checking out Bayard&#8217;s book. (In translation, of course. My French just isn&#8217;t good enough, I&#8217;m afraid.)<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/\">Ed Champion<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think maybe the most interesting thing about this argument for not reading &#8212; or, rather, fot being given free rein to still discuss books you haven&#8217;t read &#8212; is that it reveals the existence of Qui a tu\u00c3\u00a9 Roger Ackroyd?, which apparently rethinks the twist ending of Agatha Christie&#8217;s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2492\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}