{"id":1144,"date":"2006-08-23T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2006-08-23T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T07:15:59","slug":"kristines-moviebook-review-not-as-good-as-shauns-but-as-informative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Kristine&#8217;s Movie\/Book review. Not as good as Shaun&#8217;s, but as informative."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 5 years ago I was on vacation and I bought a silly girl book.\u00a0 The guy I was with grabbed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0449910261\/102-0789670-9746531?v=glance&#038;n=283155\"><strong>Dave Barry&#8217;s Guide to Guys<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the trip while I was driving the first leg of the trip he sat in the seat next to me cracking up as he was reading.<\/p>\n<p>I kept asking what was so funny and he would read me a passage.\u00a0 It got to the point where he was reading the book to me as I drove and then when we switched spots I took over and would read.<\/p>\n<p>At one point I was reading and somehow lost my spot. In order to figure out where I was I had to read ahead\u00a0 I started laughing so hard I couldn&#8217;t breath.\u00a0 He started giggling and asked what was so funny. I was laughing so hard I couldn&#8217;t even tell him.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of this trip consisted of us reading this book and laughing so hard our sides hurt.<br \/>\nLast week I was flipping through the Netflix catalog online and found the movie.\u00a0 I ordered it and today it came in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>This is thee<strong> <\/strong>worst case of <em>&#8216;The Book Was Better Than The Movie&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The book is one of the <strong>best<\/strong> books I have ever read in my life, but this movie is the worst I have ever seen&#8230;and I&#8217;ve seen &#8220;Muriel&#8217;s Wedding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buy the book, read it &#038; love it.\u00a0 Do NOT rent the movie. Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 5 years ago I was on vacation and I bought a silly girl book.\u00a0 The guy I was with grabbed Dave Barry&#8217;s Guide to Guys. During the trip while I was driving the first leg of the trip he sat in the seat next to me cracking up as he was reading. I kept asking what was so funny and he would read me a passage.\u00a0 It got to the point where he was reading the book to me as I drove and then when we switched spots I took over and would read. At one point I was reading and somehow lost my spot. In order to figure out where I was I had to read ahead\u00a0 I started laughing so hard I couldn&#8217;t breath.\u00a0 He started giggling and asked what was so funny. I was laughing so hard I couldn&#8217;t even tell him. The majority of this trip consisted of us reading this book and laughing so hard our sides hurt. Last week I was flipping through the Netflix catalog online and found the movie.\u00a0 I ordered it and today it came in the mail. This is thee worst case of &#8216;The Book Was Better Than The Movie&#8217;. The book is one of the best books I have ever read in my life, but this movie is the worst I have ever seen&#8230;and I&#8217;ve seen &#8220;Muriel&#8217;s Wedding.&#8221; Buy the book, read it &#038; love it.\u00a0 Do NOT rent the movie. Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}