{"id":1884,"date":"2015-09-13T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T19:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2015-09-13T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T19:57:42","slug":"the-maltese-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"The Maltese Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dashiell Hammett, 1930, 1st Vintage Books Edition<\/p>\n<p>This book is a selection of our men&#8217;s book club for the coming season.\u00c2\u00a0 It has some interesting aspects and a very involved plot but it is certainly dated.\u00c2\u00a0 It has the alluring <em>fem fatale<\/em> character was so popular back in those times as well as the hoodlums, a punk, and, of course the somewhat shady private eye.\u00c2\u00a0 This last character, Sam Shade, is the most unusual.\u00c2\u00a0 Hammett depicts him as a not very attractive individual with slumped shoulders, a face that probably his mother didn&#8217;t even love, and a condescending attitude to the police and every woman he encounters.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite his physical shortcomings and lack of manners, he seems to be a magnet for most of the women in the book.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels quite different from more modern adventures such as <em>Indiana Jones<\/em> where the hero is at least an attractive individual.<\/p>\n<p>Hammett&#8217;s writing style is sparse but it also seems awkward at times as it often doesn&#8217;t seem to flow.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably the best attribute of this novel is the plot, which is convoluted and interesting even if somewhat unbelievable at times.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dashiell Hammett, 1930, 1st Vintage Books Edition This book is a selection of our men&#8217;s book club for the coming season.\u00c2\u00a0 It has some interesting aspects and a very involved plot but it is certainly dated.\u00c2\u00a0 It has the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1884\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,36],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}