{"id":7142,"date":"2023-11-26T09:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2023-11-26T09:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:46:39","slug":"the-timeless-tale-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/the-timeless-tale-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Timeless Tale&#8230;. review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I now have in my hands (well, not in my hands as I type, but it&#8217;s sitting right by me) a copy of the self-published <a id=\"amznPsBmLink_3777353\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CLYBV4Y9\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=7068b1c8d4e168ef864ee309eca0a3c1&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"\u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning\u201d: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang\u201d\" data-amzn-link-id=\"7068b1c8d4e168ef864ee309eca0a3c1\">\u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning\u201d: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts <em>Gang\u201d<\/em><\/a><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_3777353\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=7068b1c8d4e168ef864ee309eca0a3c1&amp;_cb=1701019844519\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em> that was published last month. And it looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/a-quote-unquote-requote-book-on-a-charlie-brown-christmas\/\">my predictions<\/a> I made the other day about what this 33-page volume might be are all wrong. It is <strong>not<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a copy of the Wikipedia entry on A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/li>\n<li>a ChatGPT-generated description or analysis of the special<\/li>\n<li>merely the words from the title printed one per page<\/li>\n<li>a book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ThreeQuoteCBChristmasBookfront.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7139\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ThreeQuoteCBChristmasBookfront-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ThreeQuoteCBChristmasBookfront-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ThreeQuoteCBChristmasBookfront.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I mean, it is a book in the physical sense, but what it really is is a pitch for a book. Each of the chapters is just describing what would be in that chapter if the book were written. &#8220;In this chapter, we will explore the role that Snoopy plays in the series and how his distinct personality sets him apart from other comic strip and animated characters.&#8221; &#8220;Readers will gain insight into how this interaction between Lucy and Charlie Brown reflects the pressures and anxieties that many people experience during the holidays.&#8221; With each chapter having several sections and each section getting two or three sentences of description, set it in large type, include a table of contents, and viola! your few pages are quickly filled.<\/p>\n<p>Should you buy this? Of course not! You&#8217;re not the audience for this&#8230; unless you happen to be a book publisher, as i happen to be. Should publishers buy it? Of course not, if someone wants to pitch a book to you, they send you the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly understand that someone might look at things they have on the hard disk and hope to turn them into money, but if they won&#8217;t be discerning, then you should be. Do not put this on your Chanukah gift list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I now have in my hands (well, not in my hands as I type, but it&#8217;s sitting right by me) a copy of the self-published \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning\u201d: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-charlie-brown-christmas","category-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}