{"id":1827,"date":"2017-01-04T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:28:13","slug":"review-the-burglar-who-painted-like-mondrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/review-the-burglar-who-painted-like-mondrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39505\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1410130817m\/39505.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39505\">The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/17613\">Lawrence Block<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1865560897\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I do like these Lawrence Block novels and I am willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt, and put my trust in him, even when I think maybe he\u2019s phoning it in. Like how all these Bernie novels have a scene where he gathers everyone in a room and does the big reveal, right?<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ll let that go. But not random sex with a chance encounter when Bernie\u2019s burglaring an apartment. Even putting aside the gratuitous side of things, it\u2019s just not believable. At all. And even if you find a way to twist things to fit some kind of scenario where it wasn\u2019t a \u201cchance\u201d encounter, still: Bernie shouldn\u2019t be so stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise this is just pandering, this is just fantasizing, and I don\u2019t have any patience for it.<br \/>That\u2019s my only complaint. The book is what I expected it to be on every other page. Bernie burgles, stumbles on a corpse, then another, the cops think he did, but let him prove he didn\u2019t, he paints some fake pictures, and we get an intriguing title.<\/p>\n<p>Take out the other unbelievable nonsense, and the book would be fine.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1865560897\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block My rating: 2 of 5 stars I do like these Lawrence Block novels and I am willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt, and put my trust in him, even when I think maybe he\u2019s phoning it in. Like how all these Bernie &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/review-the-burglar-who-painted-like-mondrian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-tt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}