{"id":1665,"date":"2009-01-05T07:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2008-12-30T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:46:41","slug":"book-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Book-a-Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fine folks over at RinkWorks know that our time is valuable.  They&#8217;ve saved us loads of it by taking out all of the filler&#8211;there&#8217;s a startling amount of it&#8211;from works of fiction, allowing each book to be read in a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rinkworks.com\/bookaminute\/\">minute or less<\/A>.  It&#8217;s surprising how much of the actual flavor of the work they manage to maintain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>I, Robot<\/b><br \/>\nBy Isaac Asimov<br \/>\nUltra-Condensed by Geoffrey Brent<\/p>\n<p><b>Isaac Asimov<\/b><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a logic puzzle thinly disguised as a story.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reader<\/b><br \/>\nHurray!<\/p>\n<p><b>THE END<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I think my favorite is still <I>Interview with the Vampire<\/I>.  Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> accurate.)<\/p>\n<p>Also check out their <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rinkworks.com\/movieaminute\/\">Movie-a-Minute<\/A> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fine folks over at RinkWorks know that our time is valuable. They&#8217;ve saved us loads of it by taking out all of the filler&#8211;there&#8217;s a startling amount of it&#8211;from works of fiction, allowing each book to be read in a minute or less. It&#8217;s surprising how much of the actual flavor of the work [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}