{"id":3507,"date":"2023-12-29T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2024-01-01T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T17:25:38","slug":"the-nature-of-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 11, by Louise Penny, 2015, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2015, Macmillan Audio <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young boy who has a penchant for fantasy comes into the Bistro in Three Pines and announces that he has found a big gun with a horrible image on it in the woods.  He tries to get retired Inspector Gamache to come with him to see it.  Gamache doesn&#8217;t believe him and takes him home instead.  The next day the boy is found dead in a ravine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is interesting as it incorporates world events, particularly by referencing Saddam Hussein and other world arms dealers. The ending, however, is a bit of a letdown as I have found with other Louise Penny books.  She usually picks up the things she didn&#8217;t resolve in subsequent books.  I will plow ahead to see if that&#8217;s the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that the narrator of Penny&#8217;s previous audiobooks, Ralph Cosham, died after narrating book 10 and this is the first one narrated by Robert Bathurst.  I was sorry to hear of Ralph&#8217;s death as he was, for me, the real Armand Gamache as well as the other Three Pines characters.  Robert does a good job and I am sure I will get accustomed to his narration, but I still miss Ralph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 11, by Louise Penny, 2015, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2015, Macmillan Audio A young boy who has a penchant for fantasy comes into the Bistro in Three Pines and announces that <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3507\"><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-3507","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\/3507","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=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}