{"id":1898,"date":"2014-02-16T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2014-02-16T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T00:10:41","slug":"review-si-cology-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"Review: Si-Cology 10<\/del>1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this immediately after reading The Lifespan of a Fact<\/em><\/a>, and in many ways they could not be more different books, but they touch in one fun way.\u00a0 Lifespan<\/em> is about how many liberties you can take with the truth when making art; Si-Cology<\/em> makes it clear that Si Robertson (one of the folks on Duck Dynasty) and his co-author Mark Schlabach dealt with the same issues while making this cash-in memoir.\u00a0 They say (as Si):<\/p>\n

At my age, a few of the details are cloudy, but I’ll recollect the coming stories as best I can. Hey, just remember it isn’t a lie if you think it’s true! It’s up to you, the reader to figure out what’s truth and what’s fiction.\u00a0 Best of luck with that, Jack! May the [F]orce be with you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, there it is.\u00a0 Si Robertson, redneck from Duck Dynasty, and John D’Agata, intellectual from the core of academe, defending the same position in lying to the reader for the sake of a better story.<\/p>\n

Si and Mark are creating a pretty straight ahead memoir spiced up with some jokes and some tall tales.\u00a0 The tale of family and values goes down easy and is a lot of fun.\u00a0 I laughed at some of the jokes.\u00a0 It sounds like an interesting life to have lived.\u00a0 Si seems like the sort of guy it would be fun to shoot the breeze with, and I think that’s what he wanted to communicate.<\/p>\n

The bombastic quote about truth and memory captures the style well.\u00a0 He’s living his life loud, though he does say nice things about his family and friends.<\/p>\n

Good fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this immediately after reading The Lifespan of a Fact, and in many ways they could not be more different books, but they touch in one fun way.\u00a0 Lifespan is about how many liberties you can take with the truth when making art; Si-Cology makes it clear that Si Robertson (one of the folks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}