{"id":6481,"date":"2010-06-08T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2012-04-22T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:22:57","slug":"book-report-viets-guide-to-sex-travel-and-anything-else-that-will-sell-this-book-by-elaine-viets-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/book-report-viets-guide-to-sex-travel-and-anything-else-that-will-sell-this-book-by-elaine-viets-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Viets Guide to Sex, Travel, and Anything Else That Will Sell This Book<\/i> by Elaine Viets (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it&#8217;s been over a year since I read Viets&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/book-report-urban-affairs-by-elaine-viets-1988\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Urban Affairs<\/em><\/a>, which is a good thing.  It means I&#8217;m not obsessed with her.  I am developing a little crush on her through these collections, though.<\/p>\n<p>As with the previous collection, this book collects her columns from the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>.  In the introduction, she mentions that this collection is uncensored; as far as I could tell, the only impact I saw was one instance of a synonym for excrement that appeared on someone&#8217;s shirt.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if the columns are timeless, but I lived in the era in which they were written near the city where they were written, so I like them.  Sadly, I think I&#8217;ve run out of Viets&#8217;s collected columns and will have to start on her fiction when\/if I find some.<\/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=0935284729\" 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>Wow, it&#8217;s been over a year since I read Viets&#8217; Urban Affairs, which is a good thing. It means I&#8217;m not obsessed with her. I am developing a little crush on her through these collections, though. As with the previous collection, this book collects her columns from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In the introduction, she [&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-6481","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\/6481","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=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11299,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions\/11299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}