{"id":2004,"date":"2007-07-23T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/07\/thirteen\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T12:58:56","slug":"thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/thirteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=190580203X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI got hold of Sebastian Beaumont&#8217;s novel Thirteen on the basis of Scott Pack&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/meandmybigmouth.typepad.com\/scottpack\/2007\/05\/my_book_of_the_.html\">recommendation<\/a> on his very good blog.<br \/>\nThe book revolves around the life of a Brighton taxi driver who pulls the night shift, and the strange things he begins to see and experience. What&#8217;s going on? He picks up passengers from a house numbered 13, but going back later the property is not there.<br \/>\nI suppose I&#8217;d describe the book as a cross between a Haruki Murakami novel and Mulholland Drive. You have to puzzle your way through it.<br \/>\nIn between, are plenty of incidents that the author assures us did happen to him when he was a taxi driver, and they&#8217;re totally believable.<br \/>\nThe book&#8217;s an entertaining journey and you get sucked into its strange world very easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got hold of Sebastian Beaumont&#8217;s novel Thirteen on the basis of Scott Pack&#8217;s recommendation on his very good blog. The book revolves around the life of a Brighton taxi driver who pulls the night shift, and the strange things he begins to see and experience. What&#8217;s going on? He picks up passengers from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}