{"id":252,"date":"2009-11-23T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=252"},"modified":"2009-11-23T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T02:45:22","slug":"reviewing-in-rhyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2009\/11\/reviewing-in-rhyme\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing in Rhyme"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I seem to be too busy these days to formulate a thorough review of recent reads, I hereby opine on these books in a supremely low-quality form of verse. If it seems like there’s an unusual preponderance of books on American History, it’s because I’ve had to read them for my current class:<\/p>\n

American Slavery, American Freedom<\/em> (by Edmund Morgan)<\/div>\n
Morgan belabors and recounts the time when Founding Father,<\/div>\n
Fought for liberty and \u00a0freedom yet enslaved his brother,<\/div>\n
He insists that this was not some bizarre contradiction,<\/div>\n
But, in fact, that one was necessary for the existence of the other.<\/div>\n
B+<\/strong><\/div>\n

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The Curious\u00a0Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<\/em> (by Mark Hadden)<\/div>\n
\n
The strange little smart boy,<\/div>\n
Wants to solve the problem of the pet-killing crime,<\/div>\n
This mystery takes him on a cross-country trip,<\/div>\n
The answer is not quite as pleasing as counting by prime.<\/div>\n
A<\/strong><\/div>\n

\n<\/strong><\/div>\n
The Lost Symbol<\/em> (by Dan Brown)<\/div>\n
\n
It’s the second encore for symbologist Langdon,<\/div>\n
He visits Washington to solve a mystery most clever,<\/div>\n
The pacing is tight, the villain is neutered,<\/div>\n
And the dialogue sucks more than ever.<\/div>\n
Though his past outings were quite compelling,<\/div>\n
His latest tale is a boring, worthless sham,<\/div>\n
Soon he’ll be solving Sudoku puzzles,<\/div>\n
To save the city from a traffic jam.<\/div>\n
C-<\/strong><\/div>\n

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The American Revolution: A\u00a0History<\/em>\u00a0(by Gordon Wood)<\/div>\n
\n
We can have revolution without independence,<\/div>\n
And\u00a0independence without revolution,<\/div>\n
But if you speak of\u00a0both with\u00a0high ideals,<\/div>\n
You’re going to\u00a0need a Constitution.<\/div>\n
A<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars<\/em> (by Robert Remini)<\/div>\n
\n
“Andrew was a man of his time,” Remini asserts,<\/div>\n
“He tried to protect the nation, though he lacked class,”<\/div>\n
Yes, I see\u00a0 Old Hickory thought Indian removal was necessary,<\/div>\n
But I’m still of the opinion that\u00a0Jackson was a complete jackass.<\/div>\n
B<\/strong><\/div>\n

\n<\/strong><\/div>\n
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In Search of Christian Freedom<\/em> (by Raymond Franz)<\/div>\n
Franz did lots of research into the Watchtower Society,\u00a0<\/div>\n
And he’d like to share it all with you,<\/div>\n
\n
Proving that though he\u00a0was smart enough\u00a0to leave the Witness cage,<\/div>\n
He’ll be damned if he’s leaving the Christian zoo.<\/div>\n
B<\/strong><\/div>\n

\n<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Why Evolution is True <\/em>(by Jerry Coyne)<\/div>\n
\n
Coyne traces the evidence available in the rocks,<\/div>\n
And says the results are undeniably true,<\/div>\n
Between radiometrics, body design and fossils,\u00a0<\/div>\n
If I didn’t believe it before, I surely now do.<\/div>\n
A<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I seem to be too busy these days to formulate a thorough review of recent reads, I hereby opine on these books in a supremely low-quality form of verse. If it seems like there’s an unusual preponderance of books on American History, it’s because I’ve had to read them for my current class: American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-film-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}