{"id":227,"date":"2004-02-16T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2004\/02\/16\/227\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:20:06","slug":"227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2004\/02\/16\/227\/","title":{"rendered":"227"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Portable Door<\/h4>\n<div class=\"test\">Tom Holt<\/div>\n<p>This is first of a new series by Holt, based around a leading character called Paul Carpenter.<br \/>\nThe book starts with Carpenter going to an interview for a job.  Convinced he isn&#8217;t going to get the job he obsesses over the other candidates.  In particular the unpleasant thin girl in the corner.<br \/>\nAfter a very odd interview he is offered the post.  On his first day he discovers that the thin girl, called Sophie, has also been given a job.  Paul spends most of his time thinking about her and falling for her.<br \/>\nThe job is boring and weird and things aren&#8217;t what they seem.<br \/>\nHolt is a competent writer, and can be very funny, but I&#8217;ve always had the feeling that he jumps on bandwagons rather than writing things that he really wants to.  Of course, I can&#8217;t vouch for his historical novels, so I could be wrong.<br \/>\nAnyway this book is really very good while it&#8217;s based around the weirdness of the workplace and kind of loses steam once he introduces a fantastical element.<br \/>\nWorth a read though.  I&#8217;ll probably read the sequel as well &#8211; which I suspect that it will irritate me.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating<\/strong> B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portable Door Tom Holt This is first of a new series by Holt, based around a leading character called Paul Carpenter. The book starts with Carpenter going to an interview for a job. Convinced he isn&#8217;t going to get the job he obsesses over the other candidates. In particular the unpleasant thin girl in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}