{"id":137,"date":"2005-09-09T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/looking-for-mark-burnells-books\/"},"modified":"2005-09-09T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T14:37:03","slug":"looking-for-mark-burnells-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/looking-for-mark-burnells-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Mark Burnell&#8217;s books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of The Economist contained a glowing review of the latest in a thriller series by Mark Burnell, &#8220;The Third Woman.&#8221;  It also recommended starting at the beginning of the series rather than picking up in the middle, so I headed straight for amazon.com. <\/p>\n<p>First problem: the reviews on Amazon.com are polar opposites from the review in The Economist. Which is it, a wonderful series thriller, or a &#8220;plodding sequel?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Second problem: all the books in the series are either out of print or as yet unavailable in the US. I could start in the middle with Chameleon if I were willing to buy used, but if I wanted to start at the beginning with &#8220;The Rhythm Section,&#8221; it appears I&#8217;m out of luck, as no sellers are offering on Amazon.com marketplace, and 12 buyers are queued in front of me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of The Economist contained a glowing review of the latest in a thriller series by Mark Burnell, &#8220;The Third Woman.&#8221; It also recommended starting at the beginning of the series rather than picking up in the middle, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/looking-for-mark-burnells-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}