{"id":4927,"date":"2009-09-15T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2012-09-24T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:05:53","slug":"book-report-heathcliff-strikes-again-by-geo-gately-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/book-report-heathcliff-strikes-again-by-geo-gately-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Heathcliff Strikes Again by Geo Gately (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be <i>books as historical documents<\/i> week here at MfBJN.  This particular entry is a Heathcliff collection of cartoons from the newspaper (in those days, I would have been reading him in the <i>Milwaukee Journal<\/i> Green Sheet).<\/p>\n<p>This book, unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/book-report-sweet-savage-heathcliff-by-geo-gately-1982\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Sweet Savage Heathcliff<\/i><\/a>, does not focus on his love for Sonja, so I got my wish.  Unfortunately, the book hits the same tropes of what Heathcliff does.  It&#8217;s mostly a one-panel cartoon, so hoping for the sophistication of Calvin and Hobbes is probably foolish.  But some bits are amusing enough to spend an hour or so flipping through this book.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it counts as one entry on the annual books read list just as much as <i>War and Peace<\/i> would.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0441322638\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be books as historical documents week here at MfBJN. This particular entry is a Heathcliff collection of cartoons from the newspaper (in those days, I would have been reading him in the Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet). This book, unlike Sweet Savage Heathcliff, does not focus on his love for Sonja, so I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","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=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11943,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/11943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}