{"id":4065,"date":"2013-07-16T00:25:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T06:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2013-09-15T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T22:49:58","slug":"the-unwritten-dead-mans-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"The Unwritten: Dead Man&#8217;s Knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51NFb36LVHL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4069\" alt=\"51NFb36LVHL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51NFb36LVHL.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51NFb36LVHL.jpg 325w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51NFb36LVHL-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>I am surprised and not a little annoyed to report that I completely failed to write a review. (Well, technically two, but one of them is on purpose[1].) I can&#8217;t even figure out how it happened. I know I read the third book in the Unwritten series, and I know I <em>thought<\/em> I had reviewed it, but when I went looking down the recent list, it&#8217;s definitely not there. So, um, oops? I&#8217;ll do my best, some week-and-change later.<\/p>\n<p>My best ain&#8217;t gonna be a lot, unfortunately. I cannot even put together what the title, <a title=\"The Unwritten Vol. 3: Dead Man's Knock by Mike Carey, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unwritten-Vol-Dead-Mans-Knock\/dp\/1401230466\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dead Man&#8217;s Knock<\/a>, is meant to indicate. (I mean, maybe I still wouldn&#8217;t have known if I were fresh?) I do know that this one was a little lighter on the deep literary thoughts and a little heavier on kicking Tommy Taylor&#8217;s story, not to mention the war being waged against him by the weird cognoscenti cabal that views him as such an unexplained threat, into high gear. Which is okay. I like the concepts swirling around, but without some excitement and menace, Carey&#8217;s latest opus would probably feel self-involved.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there was an entire issue laid out as <a title=\"If you don't know what Choose Your Own Adventure is, turn to the website made famous by Wikipedia Pete. If you do, continue reading this sentence.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure\" target=\"_blank\">Choose Your Own Adventure<\/a>, and you cannot tell me that&#8217;s not really awesome. You could try, but you would not succeed.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am surprised and not a little annoyed to report that I completely failed to write a review. (Well, technically two, but one of them is on purpose[1].) I can&#8217;t even figure out how it happened. I know I read the third book in the Unwritten series, and I know I thought I had reviewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106,17],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-fantasy","tag-graphic-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}