{"id":142,"date":"2007-06-30T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=142"},"modified":"2007-06-30T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T13:38:30","slug":"a-madman-dreams-of-turing-machines-by-janna-levinalfred-a-knopf-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/a-madman-dreams-of-turing-machines-by-janna-levinalfred-a-knopf-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna LevinAlfred A. Knopf, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loosely interwoven stories: Alan Turing, Kurt G&ouml;del, a nameless narrator. Areas of overlap: the Liar&#8217;s Paradox, a fortune-telling gypsy woman, a vivid blue, Snow White. I wanted to like this book so much more than I did, though I enjoyed the parts about Turing, maybe because his strangenesses aren&#8217;t as off-putting as G&ouml;del&#8217;s paranoia, maybe because I knew more, to start with, about his life and his work. There are moments of lyricism in this book, but also prose that&#8217;s overwritten, like: &#8220;A froth gathers around his lips and bubbles delicately in the breeze of his last exhalation&#8221; (218).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loosely interwoven stories: Alan Turing, Kurt G&ouml;del, a nameless narrator. Areas of overlap: the Liar&#8217;s Paradox, a fortune-telling gypsy woman, a vivid blue, Snow White. I wanted to like this book so much more than I did, though I enjoyed the parts about Turing, maybe because his strangenesses aren&#8217;t as off-putting as G&ouml;del&#8217;s paranoia, maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}