{"id":1116,"date":"2018-05-09T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2018-05-06T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:01:29","slug":"book-alcatraz-versus-the-evil-librarians-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/09\/book-alcatraz-versus-the-evil-librarians-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1314208002l\/12425703.jpg\" alt=\"Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians\" width=\"318\" height=\"318\" \/>Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2007<br \/>\nAuthor: Brandon Sanderson<br \/>\nLength: 414 minutes \/ 6.90 hours<\/p>\n<p>Never before have I read a book that has been so self-aware . . . and I loved every minute of it. There\u2019s breaking the fourth wall, and then there\u2019s Brandon Sanderson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians<\/em>. A fun and hilarious read for teens and adults, this book\u2019s premise is as ridiculous as it is original. Of course, while it tends to border on the random (for maximum comedic effect), this book also manages to tie all these random pieces together in the most satisfying way. The comedy in this book is effortless, and the plot is certainly the most interesting thing I\u2019ve read recently.<\/p>\n<p>I think the ability of this book to successfully break norms and fully immerse the reader in the world is due to Sanderson\u2019s talent as a fantasy writer. The details that seem odd, like receiving a bag of sand for your thirteenth birthday, manage to be relevant to the climax of the story. Even the unique \u201csuperpowers\u201d present in this narrative are fully fleshed out, and the minutia of how they work makes sense and adds to the depth of the characters. In fact, these superpowers practically define the personalities of the people who wield them.<\/p>\n<p>While this is only the second Sanderson book I\u2019ve finished reading (I\u2019m still working on\u00a0<em>The Way of Kings<\/em>), I am quickly becoming a fan of his work. Or, at least I genuinely enjoy the shorter books that he writes, like this one. I can\u2019t wait to pick up the rest of the books in this series, because the characters and the world are so real to me that I want to keep reading to find out what happens next. Who knew that unassuming librarians could make the best villains? Maybe that\u2019s the whole point, though?<\/p>\n<p>A hilarious, random, and well thought-out adventure, I give\u00a0<em>Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians<\/em>\u00a05.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Year: 2007 Author: Brandon Sanderson Length: 414 minutes \/ 6.90 hours Never before have I read a book that has been so self-aware . . . and I loved every minute of it. There\u2019s breaking the fourth wall, and then there\u2019s Brandon Sanderson\u2019s\u00a0Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. A fun and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,54],"tags":[176,1297,1296,55,792,1298,8,333],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-0-stars","category-book","tag-176","tag-alcatraz","tag-alcatraz-versus-the-evil-librarians","tag-book","tag-brandon-sanderson","tag-librarians","tag-review","tag-self-aware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}