{"id":871,"date":"2015-09-04T01:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T05:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=871"},"modified":"2015-09-04T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T12:54:22","slug":"girls-girls-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2015\/09\/04\/girls-girls-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls, Girls, Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Girl on the Train<\/em> by Paula Hawkins seems like it&#039;s supposed to be in the same vein as <em>Gone Girl<\/em> and is in fact blurbed as such but is actually a less literary version of <em>Gone Girl<\/em>. It&#039;s kind of ridiculous to lump them together because <em>Girl<\/em> (<em>Train<\/em> and not <em>Gone<\/em>) is so just a potboiler. It&#039;s &#034;good&#034; in the sense that there&#039;s never really a moment in the writing where you&#039;re pulled out of it by something asinine. Still, it feels thin, like a synopsis of a film, which apparently it will be, the lead set to be played by Emily Blunt. And that last part undercuts the one interesting thing about the book: that the main character is (as she writes it) a physically repellent alcoholic who blacks out often (and you thought you had an unreliable narrator . . .). Unless (spoiler here) the gaslighting theme is in full effect, and unless she doesn&#039;t Bridget Jones herself in the way Ren\u00c3\u00a9e Zellweger did, it&#039;s hard to see how Emily Blunt can uglify this character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins seems like it&#039;s supposed to be in the same vein as Gone Girl and is in fact blurbed as such but is actually a less literary version of Gone Girl. It&#039;s kind of ridiculous to lump them together because Girl (Train and not Gone) is so just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[266,1027],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-are-the-suvs-of-writing","tag-book-club","tag-say-what-you-need-to-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}