{"id":1283,"date":"2004-08-28T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2018-08-12T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T23:12:44","slug":"1283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/28\/1283\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  <i>You Don&#8217;t Know Jack: The Book<\/i> (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d hate to reflect on what subtle secrets slip out about my character when the reader of this humble web log discovers that the last two books I have read stem from video games.  However, if the reader overlooks the obvious mental deficiencies of such a reviewer&#8230;.wait, you&#8217;re already here.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0762403748\/qid=1093661396\/sr=8-1\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=e61fd9e9453ab37120b99397ffaa7499\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> represents a quiz book, ten &#8220;games&#8221; of ten questions each.  It&#8217;s based on the video game series which featured, as far as I understand it, a host named Jack who was a cynical, smart-mouthed character, much like the ironic characters iconified in the television show Seinfeld.  This particular book was laid out like someone eviscerated a copy of <i>Wired<\/i> magazine, with hip fonts, bright colors, and 128 snarky pages to cover 100 questions.<\/p>\n<p>But if you can pick it up for less than a buck at a yard sale, go for it.  It&#8217;ll help you sharpen up for those unexpected trivia nights where you&#8217;re confronted with Hugh Hewitt, James Lileks, and Michael Nedved on a team without Michael Savage to handicap them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d hate to reflect on what subtle secrets slip out about my character when the reader of this humble web log discovers that the last two books I have read stem from video games. However, if the reader overlooks the obvious mental deficiencies of such a reviewer&#8230;.wait, you&#8217;re already here. Okay, this book represents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22914,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/22914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}