{"id":40,"date":"2023-10-30T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eldritchechoes.wordpress.com\/2023\/10\/30\/review-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:47:00","slug":"review-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/review-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/150878535-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1683599325l\/150878535._SX98_.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/150878535-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing\">Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8212643.Matthew_Perry\">Matthew   Perry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAs many reviewers have said, this book gets repetitive, rambly, and hard to follow at times.<\/p>\n<p>I listened via audiobook and I found it a bit easier to treat it more as a &#8220;stream of consciousness&#8221; rather than a memoir.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Perry deserves his voice to be heard. Listen to his story. And then go out and do some good in his memory. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/5661977-kitty\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry As many reviewers have said, this book gets repetitive, rambly, and hard to follow at times. I listened via audiobook and I found it a bit easier to treat it more as a &#8220;stream of consciousness&#8221; rather than a memoir. Matthew Perry deserves his voice&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/review-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3],"tags":[28,30,37,51,154,194,195,216,217,240],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-audiobook","tag-autobiography","tag-biography","tag-book-rating","tag-humor","tag-memoir","tag-mental-health","tag-no-rating","tag-nonfiction","tag-pop-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}