{"id":4598,"date":"2022-09-30T09:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T23:41:08","slug":"november-book-club-the-godwulf-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/november-book-club-the-godwulf-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"November Book Club: The Godwulf Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/godwulf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4599 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/godwulf-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/godwulf-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/godwulf.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>Robert B. Parker&#8217;s Spenser celebrates 50 years in 2023, with the 50th birthday book being\u00a0<em>The Godwulf Manuscript.\u00a0<\/em> Our book club wanted to read a classic this month, and chose Parker over Tey, Sayers, P.D. James and Ross MacDonald (Josephine Tey&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Franchise Affair<\/em> was a close second). Is Spenser a &#8220;classic&#8221;?\u00a0 At 50 years on, it&#8217;s time to evaluate.\u00a0 The first review from Kirkus in 1973 said &#8220;The publishers make the comparison to Philip Marlowe (author-professor Parker did a dissertation on Chandler-Hammett) but it won&#8217;t serve him well \u2014 there&#8217;s some of the toughness and the terseness but the hat&#8217;s much too big for him and it hasn&#8217;t got the right slouch.&#8221;\u00a0 Agree? Disagree?\u00a0 Join us on zoom Sunday, November 13\u00a0 at 2 p.m.\u00a0 to join the fray. See how Parker laid out his series with this first novel, and how he set a pattern followed by many, many others, from Harlan Coben to Robert Crais to Dennis Lehane&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert B. Parker&#8217;s Spenser celebrates 50 years in 2023, with the 50th birthday book being\u00a0The Godwulf Manuscript.\u00a0 Our book club wanted to read a classic this month, and chose Parker over Tey, Sayers, P.D. James and Ross MacDonald (Josephine Tey&#8217;s\u00a0The Franchise Affair was a close second). Is Spenser a &#8220;classic&#8221;?\u00a0 At 50 years on, it&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"November Book Club: The Godwulf Manuscript\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/november-book-club-the-godwulf-manuscript\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about November Book Club: The Godwulf Manuscript\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[167,370,940,312,939],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","tag-book-club","tag-boston","tag-private-eyes","tag-robert-b-parker","tag-spenser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}