{"id":4877,"date":"2015-06-18T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2015-06-18T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:49:36","slug":"50-books-of-grey-beating-a-dead-horse-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/06\/18\/50-books-of-grey-beating-a-dead-horse-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Books of Grey — beating a dead horse to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever we encounter something particularly repetitive — especially if it’s a book or a movie that slams the same point home ad nauseam<\/em> — Jill and I call it “beating a dead horse to death.” Yes, I know that phrase is redundant itself, but it also illustrates that the redundancy we’re referring to is not just useless, but exquisitely overdone. If I really want to emphasize the redundancy in something, I’ll go even further and talk about beating a horse to death, resurrecting it as a zombie, then bludgeoning it into inanimacy again.<\/em><\/p>\n

All of this is to say that E.L. James’ new book, Grey: 50 Shades of Grey as Told by Christian,<\/em><\/a> is caught in some hellish spin cycle of endless zombie horse torture. It’s right up there with Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun<\/a><\/em> — which is Twilight<\/em> from Edward’s point of view — in terms of gratuitous fatuity. Naturally, I have it on reserve at the library so I’m first in line to read it when it arrives…assuming I can suppress a) my gag reflexes, b) my pain sensors, and c) my compulsion to throw it across the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever we encounter something particularly repetitive — especially if it’s a book or a movie that slams the same point home ad nauseam — Jill and I call it “beating a dead horse to death.” Yes, I know that phrase is redundant itself, but it also illustrates that the redundancy we’re referring to is not… Continue reading 50 Books of Grey — beating a dead horse to death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-50-shades-trilogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4878,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}