{"id":401,"date":"2017-03-30T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:10:28","slug":"book-nobel-peace-prize-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/30\/book-nobel-peace-prize-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Nobel Peace Prize (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1486901900l\/34233148.jpg\" alt=\"Nobel Peace Prize\" width=\"220\" height=\"333\" \/>Nobel Peace Prize<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2014<br \/>\nAuthor: D. Otter<br \/>\nLength: 267 pages<\/p>\n<p>***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR***<\/p>\n<p>In a book about a random person potentially winning the Nobel Peace Prize, there\u2019s remarkably little about the effects of this life-changing award on his life. The author even goes so far as to include this statement in the synopsis, \u201cIf ultimately the book fails to satisfy, failure to satisfy may be its motif, in which case it does satisfy in an unsatisfactory sort of way.\u201d And what an unsatisfactory book it is. I\u2019ll forgive the random missing spaces, which are probably an artifact of the e-book conversion process, but I will not excuse the run-on sentences inside run-on paragraphs comprising run-on chapters.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why the author chose to write this book in a fiction context (subtitling it \u201ca political fantasy\u201d). Considering the majority of the book is comprised of long-winded, unfocused rambling rants, if the author wanted to provide a true political fantasy to the reader, the plot would have been central to these different ideas set in a world where they were the law of the land instead of just a cynical \u201cgood idea.\u201d This book would almost work better as a non-fiction diatribe on how to \u201cfix\u201d the current political\/digital\/socioeconomic landscape instead of the format it\u2019s in now.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes right down to it, the book is a series of monologs interspersed with emotionless \u201ctellings\u201d (a big no-no when it comes to the \u201cshow vs. tell\u201d method of writing). I had no interest in any of these characters, despite their lengthy backstories. In fact, I would almost argue that the character arcs were <em>only<\/em> backstories. With the walls of text, un-relatable characters, and complete lack of any plot, I\u2019m not sure how anyone would be able to get through reading this book. I did, but I forced my way through it. The biggest turn-off was definitely the author\u2019s style, which seemed pompous and \u201cholier-than-thou\u201d with a plethora of platitudes and an extensive vocabulary full of jargon.<\/p>\n<p>A series of lectures that fail to ever engage the reader, I give <em>Nobel Peace Prize<\/em> 1.0 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\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Peace Prize Year: 2014 Author: D. Otter Length: 267 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR*** In a book about a random person potentially winning the Nobel Peace Prize, there\u2019s remarkably little about the effects of this life-changing award on his life. The author even goes so far as to include this statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,54],"tags":[26,55,487,488,8,489,490],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-0-stars","category-book","tag-26","tag-book","tag-d-otter","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-review","tag-run-on-sentences","tag-wall-of-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}