{"id":101,"date":"2005-03-30T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2005-03-30T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T22:00:00","slug":"vertical-run-joseph-r-garber-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2005\/03\/vertical-run-joseph-r-garber-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertical Run &#8211; Joseph R. Garber, 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrtreads.org\/\">Adult Reading Round Table<\/a> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrtreads.org\/surebets.htm\">&#8220;Sure Bet&#8221;<\/a>&#8211;and it was. A satisfying thriller, not great, but very hard to put down. One morning, everyone (his boss, his friends, his family) want Dave Elliot dead, and he has to figure out why while staying alive in the skyscraper where he works. Par for the course for a not-great novel: four brand names on the first page of the opening scene (Pratesi sheets\/Panasonic clock radio\/Nikes\/Rolex president watch&#8211;it&#8217;s not just lazy, it&#8217;s obtrusively silly), cardboard characters, painful dialect (&#8220;Whut else can yew tell me &#8217;bout him?&#8221;) But the popcorn-cruncher in me enjoyed it a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by the Adult Reading Round Table as a &#8220;Sure Bet&#8221;&#8211;and it was. A satisfying thriller, not great, but very hard to put down. One morning, everyone (his boss, his friends, his family) want Dave Elliot dead, and he has to figure out why while staying alive in the skyscraper where he works. Par for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}