{"id":3394,"date":"2026-01-01T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:29:13","slug":"review-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"Review: James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t what I was expecting at all.  The elevator pitch for this was that Percival Everett wrote a version of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering06.html#m06-j\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering06.html#m06-j\">Huck Finn<\/a><\/em> from Jim&#8217;s perspective.  And it is that, as much as it&#8217;s any one thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think a fair amount of the fun of <em>James<\/em> is riding along with Everett and figuring out what he is up to.  I will say that I think he does a good job capturing the flavor of <em>Huck Finn<\/em>, which is such an oddball of great literature that I&#8217;d be hard pressed to describe that flavor with any precision.  My review above mentions that in <em>Huck Finn<\/em> &#8220;there are many moments of lyrical beauty; laugh-out-loud bits of humor; huge moments of grappling with good and evil.&#8221;  I think all that is true in <em>James<\/em> as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wasn&#8217;t what I was expecting at all. The elevator pitch for this was that Percival Everett wrote a version of Huck Finn from Jim&#8217;s perspective. And it is that, as much as it&#8217;s any one thing. I think a fair amount of the fun of James is riding along with Everett and figuring out [&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-3394","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\/3394","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=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}