{"id":30541,"date":"2022-12-01T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30541"},"modified":"2022-12-01T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:39:57","slug":"book-report-dark-love-edited-by-nancy-a-collins-edward-e-kramer-and-martin-h-greenberg-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/01\/book-report-dark-love-edited-by-nancy-a-collins-edward-e-kramer-and-martin-h-greenberg-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Dark Love<\/i> edited by Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer, and Martin H. Greenberg (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/darklove.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This was the second book suggested to me by the kittens who were sequestered in my office for a time, and they suggested books for me to read by knocking them off of my to-read bookshelves.  But they might as well have knocked this book into their cat litter, for I did not like it very much, and I am no longer taking recommendations from the kittens.<\/p>\n<p>The front cover bills it as Twenty Two All-Original Tales of Lust and Obsession.  Given that it&#8217;s headlined by Stephen King, I thought it would be a horror collection, but really, it&#8217;s a more crime fiction with a lot of wetwork and a bunch of sex (deviancy is a plus to the editors).  It&#8217;s not horror but horrific.  Many of the stories try to get into the minds of the insane, who then have deviant sex and murder people.  <\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to get through the book, reading several others in between the stories.  Because many of the stories were very similar.  Breaking it up kept it a little fresher.<\/p>\n<p>And as this book is from 1995, it does contain the two baddest words in the universe: <em>Trump<\/em> and, you know, the other one.  Which could be used in print in living memory as a marker that whomever spoke it was backward and not a good person.  But no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the second book suggested to me by the kittens who were sequestered in my office for a time, and they suggested books for me to read by knocking them off of my to-read bookshelves. But they might as well have knocked this book into their cat litter, for I did not like it [&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-30541","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\/30541","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=30541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30542,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30541\/revisions\/30542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}