{"id":12949,"date":"2010-04-27T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:31:55","slug":"baru-road-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12949","title":{"rendered":"Baru &#8211; Road to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulike.net\/Baru\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/road1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1896597521\/xeroxarmy-20\">Road  to America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think the line on the ordering page was &#8220;the first book from one of  the best new talents in the field&#8221;. That&#8217;s a terrible place to start,  because you have to go with the assumption that this guy is one of the  best things going instead of just letting him win you over naturally. I  thought this book was average, leaning towards really good with the  ending. There were a lot of little cliched things that he could have  done with the story and didn&#8217;t, if that wins him any points. This is the  story of a boxer during Algeria&#8217;s fight for independence. He refuses to  take sides and is set upon by everybody as a result. The art is  fantastic, muted but still expressive. I probably would have thought a  lot better about this book if it hadn&#8217;t been hyped to me beforehand, but  there you go. Worth a look if you&#8217;re bored and desperate for something  new, otherwise it can probably wait.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/road2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Road to America I think the line on the ordering page was &#8220;the first book from one of the best new talents in the field&#8221;. That&#8217;s a terrible place to start, because you have to go with the assumption that this guy is one of the best things going instead of just letting him [&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":[3532,609],"class_list":["post-12949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-baru","tag-road-to-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949","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=12949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}