{"id":895,"date":"2005-06-10T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"dons-reading-list-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2005\/06\/dons-reading-list-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;s Reading List (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back again with another update to my reading list! I&#8217;m sure you can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>While in Punta Cana (which was beautiful, by the way) I read [url=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060938455\/bujinkanmartia0b\/]Fast Food Nation[\/url]. This was a real eye opener as to what the fast food industry is all about in this country and abroad. It&#8217;s certainly made me think twice about going to all those fast food and chain restaurants on a regular basis. One of the most disturbing parts of the book was the discussion of the conditions in the meat processing plants and slaughterhouses in this country &#8211; inhumane to the animals and the human workers alike!<\/p>\n<p>Just before our trip, I finished the [url=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0452284694\/bujinkanmartia0b\/]first book[\/url] in Stephen King&#8217;s Dark Tower series. Since the series finished up recently, I didn&#8217;t mind starting it now. There are too many multi-volume series that I get into at the beginning and the author just keeps writing and writing and writing (ala Robert Jordan). Now that I know there&#8217;s an end to the Dark Tower story, I&#8217;ll take it on.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was reading some Stephen King, I thought my next read would be Salems Lot. This was the first full length King novel that I read back in the summer between sixth and seventh grade and it started me on a path of voracious reading. Like most his short stories that I had read previously, Salems Lot was a page turner. I finished the book in about 5 sweltering days in July, 1983. I recall laying on my bed in front of my open window one night, trying to get to the end of a chapter and catch a cool breeze when a moth crashed into the screen and nearly made me shit myself. I finished the story the night that my mom took my grandmother and me to see the 4th of July fireworks in Webster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back again with another update to my reading list! I&#8217;m sure you can&#8217;t wait. While in Punta Cana (which was beautiful, by the way) I read [url=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060938455\/bujinkanmartia0b\/]Fast Food Nation[\/url]. This was a real eye opener as to what the fast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2005\/06\/dons-reading-list-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}