{"id":1168,"date":"2009-01-07T07:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2009-03-24T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:34:34","slug":"benjamin-button-and-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1168","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Button, Fitzgerald, Max Tivoli, and Greer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/curious_case_of_benjamin_button\/\">&#8220;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&#8221;<\/a> over the holidays. I enjoyed it, but it was long, and the premise required significant suspension of disbelief (I mean, how would it be physically possible to grow younger?!). But I enjoyed it enough that I hope to read the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story upon which it is based, which is available in a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=aSI9q1CAhgMC&amp;pgis=1\"><em>The short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: a new collection<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PS3511 .I9 A6 1989).<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw this movie advertized I thought it was based on a 2004 novel by Andrew Sean Greer called <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RT2JSEHKDpIC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The confessions of Max Tivoli<\/em><\/a>. I was very impressed with this book because I thought it had a fresh, unique idea about someone born aged and growing younger&#8230; and how often do you read something with a storyline that isn&#8217;t just a variation on a theme? Well, of course I was much less impressed when I learned the Button movie was based on an older story with the same idea! But the novel was a very good read anyway, and while we don&#8217;t have it at UW-Whitewater, UWW students and staff can borrow it from another UW library by using the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;PAGE=dbPage\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the movie &#8220;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&#8221; over the holidays. I enjoyed it, but it was long, and the premise required significant suspension of disbelief (I mean, how would it be physically possible to grow younger?!). But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[178,184,263,1609],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-novels","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}