{"id":4915,"date":"2009-09-01T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2010-01-13T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:28:40","slug":"book-report-long-time-no-see-by-ed-mcbain-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/01\/book-report-long-time-no-see-by-ed-mcbain-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Long Time No See by Ed McBain (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shorter 87th Precinct novel from the 1970s, before hardback bloat demanded every book be 300 pages.  A blind man is murdered, and then his blind wife is murdered and the apartment tossed.  Is someone murdering blind people, or were they targeted specifically?  That&#8217;s the question for Carella and the gang.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, the book deals with veterans back from the War (Vietnam) and shenanigans in the military, but in 1977, McBain didn&#8217;t feel the need to foam about LBJ, Nixon, or Carter.  Was George W. Bush just <i>that evil<\/i> that McBain couldn&#8217;t refrain in later books?  It&#8217;s fortunate he did, otherwise he would not have sold so well nor built a legacy which makes his later political rhapsody tolerable.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0553231308\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shorter 87th Precinct novel from the 1970s, before hardback bloat demanded every book be 300 pages. A blind man is murdered, and then his blind wife is murdered and the apartment tossed. Is someone murdering blind people, or were they targeted specifically? That&#8217;s the question for Carella and the gang. Funny, the [&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-4915","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\/4915","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=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5161,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions\/5161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}