{"id":1553,"date":"2005-03-27T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1553.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","slug":"christopher-brookmyre-quite-ugly-one-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/03\/27\/christopher-brookmyre-quite-ugly-one-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Brookmyre &#8211; <i>Quite Ugly One Morning<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of the Jack Parlabane novels.  Brookmyre is still finding his feet with this one:  the opening scene is one of the funniest I have ever read, but later parts of the book drag a bit, and the computer hacking sequence didn&#8217;t work for me at all.  Still, a good satirical comedy thriller, and a great introduction to the characters of the series.<\/p>\n<p><i>(This quick review is part of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2005\/09\/14\/clearing_the_decks\/\">September 2005 &#8220;clearing the decks&#8221;<\/a> exercise.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of the Jack Parlabane novels. Brookmyre is still finding his feet with this one: the opening scene is one of the funniest I have ever read, but later parts of the book drag a bit, and the computer hacking sequence didn&#8217;t work for me at all. Still, a good satirical comedy thriller, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}