{"id":1832,"date":"2012-03-11T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:47:13","slug":"the-death-of-bunny-munro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Bunny Munro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Death-Bunny-Munro-Nick-Cave\/dp\/1847673783\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/death_of_bunny_munro.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"death_of_bunny_munro\" width=\"195\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1907\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a deeply unpleasant story.  It&#8217;s about an alcoholic, drug-addled sex maniac.  His sexual encounters and his neglect of his son after his wife&#8217;s suicide are simply awful.  But there is something compulsive about the writing that kept me turning the pages and completing the book in a weekend.  Cave takes the reader on a horrfic, unreal rollercoaster ride.  The slow bits are those narrated by Bunny&#8217;s son and they are touching and heartbreaking.  The book reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Filth-Irvine-Welsh\/dp\/0099591111\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1331484456&#038;sr=1-1\">Irvine Welsh&#8217;s Filth<\/a>: a depraved journey in which, to the relief of the reader, the protagonist finally gets what he deserves.<\/p>\n<p>The book has its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeathofbunnymunro.com\/\">own website<\/a> and the Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/audio\/2009\/sep\/10\/nick-cave-bunny-munro?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487\">interviewed Cave<\/a> about the audiobook version to which he wrote a soundtrack.  The audiobook sounds very interesting but, for now at least, I think I&#8217;d like to leave Bunny for something a little less horrible.<\/p>\n<p>(10th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a deeply unpleasant story. It&#8217;s about an alcoholic, drug-addled sex maniac. His sexual encounters and his neglect of his son after his wife&#8217;s suicide are simply awful. But there is something compulsive about the writing that kept me turning the pages and completing the book in a weekend. Cave takes the reader on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}