{"id":1822,"date":"2008-03-02T07:38:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T12:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2008-03-02T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T12:39:27","slug":"the-double-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"The Double Bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know.  It&#8217;s stuff like this that makes me vow never to read another book by an author again.  HMPH.  Was that ending really necessary? No. It wasn&#8217;t.  I don&#8217;t care that some people probably loved it.  Thought it was the perfect &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Double-Bind-Vintage-Contemporaries\/dp\/1400031664\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1204461269&amp;sr=1-1\">double bind<\/a>&#8220;.  I thought it stunk.  Right up until the last 20 pages, I was loving the book.<\/p>\n<p>I like(d) Chris Bohjalian&#8217;s books and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbohjalian.com\/blog\">blog<\/a>.  It will be a long time before I read either.  I don&#8217;t trust him anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know. It&#8217;s stuff like this that makes me vow never to read another book by an author again. HMPH. Was that ending really necessary? No. It wasn&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t care that some people probably loved it. Thought it was the perfect &#8220;double bind&#8220;. I thought it stunk. 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