{"id":69915,"date":"2019-02-05T05:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69915"},"modified":"2019-02-05T07:38:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:38:25","slug":"free-and-still-not-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69915","title":{"rendered":"Free, And Still Not Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amazon Prime members can read Kindle books for free. The one I’m reading now was advertised as a realistic action thriller, so I thought I’d take a chance. Why not?\u00a0 It’s free, if I hate it, I just push delet<\/span>e.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’m three pages in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Milton, the main character is a British assassin in the James Bond mould.\u00a0 He has parked his car and walked around to the trunk. Here’s where the story picks up and I quote: “he unfolded the edges of the blanket to uncover the assault rifle that had been left at the Dead Drop the previous night. It was an HK53 carbine with integrated suppressor, the rifle that the SAS often used when stealth was as important as stopping power. Milton lifted the rifle from the boot and pressed a fresh 25 round magazine into the breach. He opened the collapsible stock and took aim, pointing down the middle of the road. Satisfied that the weapon was functioning correctly, he made his way toward the bridge and rested it in the undergrowth, out of sight.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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See?\u00a0 Total realism.\u00a0 That’s how you test a rifle. Slam in the mag, fold open the stock, point it down the road. You don’t test-fire it, cycle the action, don’t even look inside the chamber to see if it’s loaded. Apparently, I’ve been doing it wrong all these years and never knew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Delete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People who don’t know, or like, or care about guns write about them pretty much the way I write about golf.<\/p>\n

(All due respect to the golfers in the audience…)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Amazon Prime members can read Kindle books for free. The one I’m reading now was advertised as a realistic action thriller, so I thought I’d take a chance. Why not?\u00a0 It’s free, if I hate it, I just push delete. I’m three pages in. Milton, the main character is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69917,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69915\/revisions\/69917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}