{"id":14,"date":"2010-10-17T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-10-21T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:07:22","slug":"present-tense-book-review-bulldog-drummond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/present-tense-book-review-bulldog-drummond\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Tense Book Review &#8211; Bulldog Drummond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe internet is not exactly lacking in book reviews, so thought I&#8217;d try to give a bit of a twist to my meagre musings: talking about the book before I&#8217;ve finished. I&#8217;m starting with <em>Bulldog Drummond<\/em>, by Sapper (a pseudonym required because the author was a serving member of the armed forces).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve read the prologue and first chapter, which have a great deal of promise &#8211; the pace is fairly zippy for introductory material, and the writing style is a bit old-fashioned, but enjoyable, with plenty of depth of character. It reminds me of the Jack Reacher novels somewhat, but while those are great page-turners, they can clunk along with clumsy exposition, and leaden dialogue, and can sometimes be as clich\u00e9d as using the word &#8216;leaden&#8217; to describe dialogue. Here, Drummond is a recently demobbed officer looking for adventure in civilian life, and in a separate strand we&#8217;ve been introduced to the archvillain (I think) which I&#8217;m hoping will give an over-arching structure to the novel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is not exactly lacking in book reviews, so thought I&#8217;d try to give a bit of a twist to my meagre musings: talking about the book before I&#8217;ve finished. I&#8217;m starting with Bulldog Drummond, by Sapper (a pseudonym required because the author was a serving member of the armed forces). I&#8217;ve read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}