{"id":12905,"date":"2010-04-27T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2010-04-22T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:09:46","slug":"b-dave-epileptic-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12905","title":{"rendered":"B., Dave &#8211; Epileptic 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/books\/authors\/bdavid\/epileptic\">Link  to all sorts of reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/epileptic11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/2844140858\/xeroxarmy-20\">Epileptic  1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before I even get started, um&#8230; Volume 1? What&#8217;s left? Where can it  go from here? Doesn&#8217;t David B. know that American audiences need a  cliffhanger after the first volume? Sheesh. As for the book itself, it&#8217;s  fantastic. I feel like I could sit here reading it for days and still  not get every little thing that&#8217;s in it. On the surface it&#8217;s the story  of the author as he deals with his epileptic brother as he&#8217;s growing up.  His parents try just about every means imaginable to cure him including  macrobiotics, communes, gurus, and psychologists and medical doctors,  but nothing seems to do much good. My main problem with the book is that  it&#8217;s all over the place, but that does keep with the theme of throwing  everything they have at the problem. It&#8217;s not a casual read, it&#8217;s a  commitment to sit down and finish the whole thing (this is the second  time I&#8217;m tried) but it is a rewarding experience if you can do it. It  might be painfully dull for some people, but for others (like me) it&#8217;s a  fascinating trip into childhood and dealing with situations that just  can&#8217;t be fixed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/epileptic12.bmp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"475\" \/><tt><br \/>\n<\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to all sorts of reviews Epileptic 1 Before I even get started, um&#8230; Volume 1? What&#8217;s left? Where can it go from here? Doesn&#8217;t David B. know that American audiences need a cliffhanger after the first volume? Sheesh. As for the book itself, it&#8217;s fantastic. I feel like I could sit here reading it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3509,580],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dave-b","tag-epileptic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}