{"id":685,"date":"2008-11-20T14:36:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/11\/20\/my-review-of-laughin-boy\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:33","slug":"my-review-of-laughin-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/11\/20\/my-review-of-laughin-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"My review of Laughin Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

My review<\/a> of Bradley Denton’s Laughin’ Boy<\/span><\/a> appears in the latest San Antonio Current<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Throughout his riveting satirical novel, Denton successfully incorporates text equivalents of several early 21st-century mass communication modes, including video clips, newsgroup posts, sound bites, internet group chat, talk shows, and web pages alongside the more traditional-looking therapy transcripts and linear prose episodes. He wisely centers the story on the tragic tale of Laughin\u2019 Boy, forcing us to take a hard look at contemporary media and its ability to derail society from the important to the trivial.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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My review of Bradley Denton’s Laughin’ Boy appears in the latest San Antonio Current. Quote: Throughout his riveting satirical novel, Denton successfully incorporates text equivalents of several early 21st-century mass communication modes, including video clips, newsgroup posts, sound bites, internet … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n