{"id":3096,"date":"2021-12-05T19:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2021-12-05T19:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:07:27","slug":"review-talk-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"Review: Talk To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked up <em>Talk To Me<\/em> hoping to see what I love about T. Coraghessan Boyle&#8217;s writing and I got exactly what I was hoping for.  He is a very talented and popular author whose work I really enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyle is a consummate plotter and writes beautifully and expressively.  He has a keen sense of humor and a penchant for quirky topics. All of that delights me, but it&#8217;s not what fascinates me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What fascinates me is that he writes with more empathy than almost any author I&#8217;ve read.  Specifically, he regularly takes a character from the modern zeitgeist who seems heinous and writes about them in a way that makes the reader understand how they could commit the horrible acts that brought them to the public eye.  He has a skill for making you understand them without supporting them.  It&#8217;s a powerful superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Talk To Me<\/em> he brings it to bear on a range of characters from chimpanzee language researchers like the folks who claim to have taught a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koko_(gorilla)\">gorilla to communicate with humans<\/a> using sign language and the sorts of folks in <em>Tiger King<\/em>. There is all sorts of behavior going on that would be hard to swallow in a headline, but seems natural in Boyle&#8217;s hands.  It&#8217;s also compelling, thought provoking and has a unique vibe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Talk To Me hoping to see what I love about T. Coraghessan Boyle&#8217;s writing and I got exactly what I was hoping for. He is a very talented and popular author whose work I really enjoy. Boyle is a consummate plotter and writes beautifully and expressively. He has a keen sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}