{"id":1430,"date":"2013-03-10T03:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullculls.wordpress.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-03-10T03:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:05:44","slug":"turn-the-page-the-death-of-bunny-munro-by-nick-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Turn The Page: The Death Of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/the_death_of_bunny_munro_nick_cave_canongate.jpg\\\"><img class=\\\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1431\\\" alt=\\\"The_Death_of_Bunny_Munro_Nick_Cave_Canongate\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/the_death_of_bunny_munro_nick_cave_canongate.jpg\\\" width=\\\"150\\\" height=\\\"233\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved \\&#8217;And The Ass Saw The Angel\\&#8217; and I generally have loved everything that Nick Cave touches &#8211; he keeps it interesting and new, and doesn\\&#8217;t often repeat himself.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very different novel to his debut, which I have seen criticised in certain places for being over-written. This is a little leaner. If that debut is the Bad Seeds, with all its gothic stylings, then this novel is Grinderman, with a kind of lurching blood-filled comedy and an energetic bassline chugging away.<\/p>\n<p>With the first book I really didn\\&#8217;t attach it so much with the person writing it, but for some reason, with this book I kind of pictured Bunny Munro as a cartoonised version of Cave, backed with a frenetic backdrop, decanting himself into these various tragi-comic episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The book never slows down, and the fact that it builds in you emotionally as much as it does kinetically is a testament to the writing. Bunny feels human; Bunny Junior feels like a real kid rather than some Disney dream of a child. The beginning packs a punch, the bumps in the road in this odyssey likewise judder through you, and the end really does come on like a crescendo.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved \\&#8217;And The Ass Saw The Angel\\&#8217; and I generally have loved everything that Nick Cave touches &#8211; he keeps it interesting and new, and doesn\\&#8217;t often repeat himself. This is a very different novel to his debut, which <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1430\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[168,170],"tags":[306,311,681,770,771,777,844,999,1193,1194,1197],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-the-page","category-update","tag-book","tag-books","tag-literature","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-musicians","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull","tag-writer","tag-writers","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}