{"id":2615,"date":"2005-08-22T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2018-02-11T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:15:16","slug":"book-report-caravan-to-vaccares-by-alistair-maclean-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/book-report-caravan-to-vaccares-by-alistair-maclean-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <em>Caravan to Vaccares<\/em> by Alistair MacLean (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0816177570\/ref=lpr_g_1\/103-2122763-1707849?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> at the library at the same time as I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/20\/book-report-partisans-by-alistair-maclean-1983\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Partisans<\/i><\/a>, and for the same price.  So pretty soon after I completed <i>Partisans<\/i>, I cracked open this book.<\/p>\n<p>It, too, presented a quick read with a typical MacLean plot.  A caravan of gypsies has come to France, bearing dark doings and dangerous characters.  A British layabout and a French Duc, as well as a couple of vacationing British hotties, encounter dark doings and dangerous char&#8211;oh, I said that already, didn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something familiar about MacLean&#8217;s works when one has read a number of them, more than once.  Since he eschewed series characters and instead worked with similar heroes, the books carry enough difference when looked at as a whole to remain engaging without becoming metronomic.  So if you can pick it up for a quarter, I&#8217;d recommend this book.  Maybe even a buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book at the library at the same time as I bought Partisans, and for the same price. So pretty soon after I completed Partisans, I cracked open this book. It, too, presented a quick read with a typical MacLean plot. A caravan of gypsies has come to France, bearing dark doings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19414,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}