{"id":12379,"date":"2017-05-24T04:17:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12379"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:46:40","slug":"book-11-of-52-the-fireman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/book-11-of-52-the-fireman\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 11 (of 52) &#8211; The Fireman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12384\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12384\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12384\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-fineman-joe-hill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-fineman-joe-hill.jpg 250w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the-fineman-joe-hill-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fireman &#8211; Joe Hill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in the year 2013, I first stumbled across the work of Joe Hill.\u00a0 At the time, I <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/book-6-of-52-horns-a-novel\/\">said<\/a> &#8220;<span style=\"color: #404040; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">I\u2019m looking forward to reading more of his work.<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0 4 years later, I finally got around to it.\u00a0 <em>The Fireman<\/em>, his fourth novel, tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic America, where a spore has infected the population, causing them to burst into flames.\u00a0 A group of survivors, who have learned how to control and\u00a0live with\u00a0the infection, bands together and tries to survive something worse than the spore: humanity itself.<\/p>\n<p>If I had one complaint about <em>The Fireman<\/em>, it would be that it is loooong.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing in particular that screams out as a candidate for being cut out, but the length did make it seem like the book was dragging.\u00a0 Besides that, I didn&#8217;t notice the same quirks that made <em>Horns<\/em> such a struggle to get through and found it to be an easy and engaging read.\u00a0 It just kept going and going.<\/p>\n<p>I still have Hill&#8217;s other 2 novels waiting on the Kindle app.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure that it won&#8217;t take me another 4 years to get back to them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the year 2013, I first stumbled across the work of Joe Hill.\u00a0 At the time, I said &#8220;I\u2019m looking forward to reading more of his work.&#8221;\u00a0 4 years later, I finally got around to it.\u00a0 The Fireman, his fourth novel, tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic America, where a spore has infected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3255,3254,2889,7446],"class_list":["post-12379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-horns-a-novel","tag-joe-hill","tag-kindle","tag-the-fireman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12403,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions\/12403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}