{"id":172,"date":"2009-12-05T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-12-05T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T20:38:57","slug":"really-short-book-review-the-broken-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/05\/really-short-book-review-the-broken-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Really short book review: &#8220;The Broken Window&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416549986\/ref=yml_dp\">The Broken Window<\/a> is by Jeffrey Deaver, copyright 2008. It&#8217;s another book I snagged from the shelves of the Wal-Mart during a fit of boredom. Deaver is the same guy who wrote &#8220;The Bone Collector&#8221; which was made into a movie with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Having read this book, it&#8217;s fairly clear to me that Lincoln Rhyme is a white guy, which seems odd with a name like Lincoln who has a cousin named Arthur. I suppose it could just be my prejudice coming through, but it seemed odd to me that the movie character is of a different race than the character in the novel. I don&#8217;t know why I even had to bring it up, but it nagged at me as I read the book.<\/p>\n<p>Also, nagging at me as I read the book, was the ridiculous portrayal of computer technology. Deaver couldn&#8217;t write a &#8220;Hello World&#8221; program in TRS-80 BASIC. He just hasn&#8217;t the slightest clue how computer systems work. I suppose reading this book for me would be a similar experience to the way actual crime scene investigators feel when they watch CSI on TV. <\/p>\n<p>I suppose the story was readable and engaging enough once you get past the terrible misunderstanding and misrepresentation of technology. I think I&#8217;d rather just read Neal Stephenson if I want believable technology in my stories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broken Window is by Jeffrey Deaver, copyright 2008. It&#8217;s another book I snagged from the shelves of the Wal-Mart during a fit of boredom. Deaver is the same guy who wrote &#8220;The Bone Collector&#8221; which was made into a movie with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Having read this book, it&#8217;s fairly clear to [&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-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}