{"id":180,"date":"2011-01-20T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2011-03-12T22:16:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T04:16:40","slug":"falling-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/falling-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/10709626\">Falling Star<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/chenphilip\">Philip Chen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"brtext_69196569\">Philip  Chen&#8217;s first novel, Falling Star, is a winner. He has successfully  combined several often disparate aspects of telling a good story that  runs from 1967 to 1993! The characters are believable. The scenes are  painted accurately, almost cinema-graphically. The story is believable,  pulls the reader along and it is easy to read. It involves espionage,  technology, mysticism and mystery woven well together. I could stop here  and my critique would be complete. My only serious complaint (aside  from the e-book format) was the somewhat abrupt ending that left a few  strings dangling perhaps hinting at a sequel. That would be nice.<\/p>\n<p>However,  I must add that I read Falling Star as an e-book. As a rule, I don&#8217;t  like e-books. I like reading ink on paper. Nonetheless, Chen quickly won  this reader over. There are many details in the story that are very  familiar or tangentially familiar to me personally. They added the air  of authenticity to his story in a way few can. Mr. Chen obviously drew  on his personal experience as an engineer, oceanographer, researcher,  trial lawyer and investment banker. ( <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.librarything.com\/pics\/ss8.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> )<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling Star, is a winner. He has successfully combined several often disparate aspects of telling a good story that runs from 1967 to 1993! The characters are believable. The scenes are painted accurately, almost cinema-graphically. The story is believable, pulls the reader along and it is easy to read. It involves espionage, technology, mysticism and mystery woven well together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-films"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-2U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}