{"id":2515,"date":"2005-07-20T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:46:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:46:49","slug":"book-report-desperately-seeking-susan-by-susan-dworkin-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/book-report-desperately-seeking-susan-by-susan-dworkin-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Desperately Seeking Susan by Susan Dworkin (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0517559765\/qid=1121890143\/sr=8-5\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl14\/002-6419971-9752856?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> at a garage sale in my old eBay days.  When cleaning out the backstock of those old books, I decided to add it to my personal library since I&#8217;ve never seen the movie, but I was kind of familiar with the plot.  So I read it.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want?  It&#8217;s the novelization of a romantic comedy about Baby Boomers being New Wave in the middle 1980s.  Man, they actually used to <i>novelize<\/i> those things.  Now, that tradition is only upheld for books that geeks and fanboys will buy.<\/p>\n<p>Roberta, an aging (<i><b>26!<\/b><\/i>) and disenchanted suburban housewife, lives vicariously through the personal ads, particularly a series of ads wherein a man desperately seeks Susan.  When she follows the directions to one of Susan&#8217;s rendezvous, Roberta becomes more immersed in Susan&#8217;s life than in her own.<\/p>\n<p>I took two things away from this book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If Madonna had been born 20 years later, she would have been one of the first stars with a sex tape accidentally leaked to the Internet.\n<li>I find it unintentionally amusing when I read books where characters in their mid twenties think they&#8217;re old.  You don&#8217;t really get old until your middle thirties, anyone in his or her middle thirties will tell you.<\/ul>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ll have to get the commemorative twentieth anniversary two-DVD retrospective that&#8217;s due any day now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book at a garage sale in my old eBay days. When cleaning out the backstock of those old books, I decided to add it to my personal library since I&#8217;ve never seen the movie, but I was kind of familiar with the plot. So I read it. What do you want? It&#8217;s [&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-2515","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\/2515","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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}