{"id":4589,"date":"2008-09-11T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:03:17","slug":"book-report-the-frumious-bandersnatch-by-ed-mcbain-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/book-report-the-frumious-bandersnatch-by-ed-mcbain-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Frumious Bandersnatch by Ed McBain (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is one of the last of the series, and quite frankly, it&#8217;s not of McBain&#8217;s best.  I mean, you&#8217;ve got the 87th Precinct guys looking into a kidnapping, working around the FBI who would use Carella, their liason, as a gopher.  Actually, that&#8217;s it.  One crime from multiple points of view.  Still, I figured it out awfully early and hoped for a twist that never came.  Also, sometime this century, McBain started knocking president by name (Bush).  I&#8217;ve mentioned that before, but he brings it out here again as a couple of asides.  I could understand a sort of disgust with the Powers That Be in some of his previous books, but now that he&#8217;s naming names for especial vituperation, I&#8217;m saddened and slightly put off.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he probably works to hard to get the title thing working.<\/p>\n<p>Even with those knocks, the book doesn&#8217;t fall to below the Fair or Slightly Good rating.  Better than any Pearson or Randisi novel I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0743476514&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is one of the last of the series, and quite frankly, it&#8217;s not of McBain&#8217;s best. I mean, you&#8217;ve got the 87th Precinct guys looking into a kidnapping, working around the FBI who would use Carella, their liason, as a gopher. Actually, that&#8217;s it. One crime from multiple points of view. Still, I [&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-4589","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\/4589","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=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}