{"id":4488,"date":"2008-06-26T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:09:01","slug":"book-report-clash-of-the-titans-by-alan-dean-foster-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/book-report-clash-of-the-titans-by-alan-dean-foster-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Clash of the Titans by Alan Dean Foster (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You remember the movie with the L.A. Law guy?  No?  Damn kids.  This is the novelization, essentially a recasting of the Perseus myth with a bit of modern (ca. 1981) costumery.<\/p>\n<p>I like Alan Dean Foster, as you know, and he got a lot of this sort of work.  He adds some allusions within the text not found in the movie, but some of the off-script scenes sound completely different, as though a couple pages of <i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/i> were accidentally grafted into <i>Hamlet<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it serves its purpose: reminding me I need to watch the DVD of the film I bought some years ago.  Actually, I think the real point was to make me go buy something related to the film to add to its bottom line, but I don&#8217;t think the lunchboxes still add to MGM&#8217;s bottom line 30 years later.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0354047469&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember the movie with the L.A. Law guy? No? Damn kids. This is the novelization, essentially a recasting of the Perseus myth with a bit of modern (ca. 1981) costumery. I like Alan Dean Foster, as you know, and he got a lot of this sort of work. He adds some allusions within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","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=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}