{"id":3291,"date":"2018-10-24T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2018-10-24T21:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:51:34","slug":"presidio-by-randy-kennedy-and-suicide-club-by-rachel-heng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/presidio-by-randy-kennedy-and-suicide-club-by-rachel-heng\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Presidio<\/em> by Randy Kennedy and <em>Suicide Club<\/em> by Rachel Heng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while, so I felt I should put something up here for my multitude of readers. I try to post reviews of all the books I read, but sometimes I don&#8217;t read them. That is, I don&#8217;t read enough of them to post a fair review. That&#8217;s the case with the two in the title today. I just couldn&#8217;t get into the premise enough to keep reading after a chapter or two.<\/p>\n<p><em>Presidio<\/em> by Randy Kennedy centers around a ne-er-do-well easy-goin&#8217; chap who doesn&#8217;t like owning things so he just goes around stealin&#8217;. Some may find him charming but I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><em>Suicide Club<\/em> by Rachel Heng portrays a future New York City where the privileged classes enjoy lives as long as three hundred years as long as they eschew almost everything pleasurable (like facial expressions and food) and have frequent upgrades of skin and other tissues. Another cup of tea that wasn&#8217;t mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while, so I felt I should put something up here for my multitude of readers. I try to post reviews of all the books I read, but sometimes I don&#8217;t read them. That is, I don&#8217;t read enough of them to post a fair review. 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