{"id":6395,"date":"2018-10-21T10:39:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2018-10-21T10:39:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:39:23","slug":"the-maze-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=6395","title":{"rendered":"The Maze Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/020f9679791c160597847386177444341587343-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/020f9679791c160597847386177444341587343-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/020f9679791c160597847386177444341587343.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>I finished <a title=\"My review of Mad Ship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the second second Robin Hobb book<\/a> and its review just before my annual five day camping trip, which was good timing because I wanted small easy books to read, instead of dragging around a doorstop in the woods. But then I made a terrible mistake. In the midst of packing, every book I intended to bring (and the Kindle) were left on a shelf. Which meant, a day or so later when it was time to read, I had nothing!<\/p>\n<p>This is I think the third worst thing that has ever happened to me on a camping trip.<\/p>\n<p>So, I downloaded Kindle software onto my phone and picked the book that sounded the most like what I wanted at that moment, out of the books I have Kindleized. Which was <a title=\"The Maze Runner by James Dashner, at Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Maze-Runner-Book-ebook\/dp\/B002QE3CTY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Maze Runner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I already saw the movie (but apparently did not review it? wtf), so there were not like a ton of surprises? Though, much like the movie, motives are still unclear to me. Anyway, it&#8217;s a teen book about teens in a maze. Also, they have no personal memories. But mainly there&#8217;s this maze, and they&#8217;ve been there a while, but everything it about to change. (Also, mazes are cool.)<\/p>\n<p>This book mostly asks questions that I assume future books will answer. Why are there a bunch of teenage boys left in a maze with no apparent solution? Why are they supplied? Why do new boys keep coming? Why can&#8217;t they remember anything? Why are there murderous monsters in the maze? Why only boys? (I&#8217;m not sure if I expect an answer to this one.)<\/p>\n<p>I only read like one and a half chapters while camping, but it felt a lot better knowing I had something to read if I wanted to than before that, when I didn&#8217;t and everything to read was like 150 miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the second second Robin Hobb book and its review just before my annual five day camping trip, which was good timing because I wanted small easy books to read, instead of dragging around a doorstop in the woods. But then I made a terrible mistake. In the midst of packing, every book I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1289,1261,430,1223],"class_list":["post-6395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-dystopian-fiction","tag-kindle","tag-science-fiction","tag-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395","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=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6401,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}