{"id":926,"date":"2017-12-14T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2017-12-02T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:33:19","slug":"book-plane-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/book-plane-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Plane (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1507308791l\/36364512.jpg\" alt=\"Plane\" width=\"312\" height=\"475\" \/>Plane<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nYear: 2017<br \/>\nAuthor: William Hrdina<br \/>\nLength: 148 pages<\/p>\n<p>***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY***<\/p>\n<p>Two things help to create a good story: little to no suspension of disbelief, and realistic characters. The more a writer has to justify what they\u2019re doing in the world they\u2019ve written, either through scientific or historical inaccuracies, the harder it is for the reader to accept the story they\u2019ve been given. Similarly, if the characters are only flat stereotypes or caricatures that act in pre-defined ways based on these broad brushstrokes, the reader can\u2019t take the story seriously. Unfortunately, <em>Plane<\/em> fails on both of these elements. If anything, its short, novella length is its redemption since the reader doesn\u2019t have to invest much into reading it.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the suspension of disbelief. First off, I doubt a college student would be allowed to fill in for a professor at an international conference, let alone one where the student would be speaking on behalf of the professor. That was a red flag right from the start, especially with what the \u201cwinning\u201d student wrote. Secondly, while the author took the reader down an interesting plot that could have had a\u00a0satisfying resolution, the addition of more and more inconsistent and ridiculous details forced the plot into a hackneyed and overdone conclusion. Finally, just enough details of the plot seemed \u201coff\u201d enough that I frequently had to ask myself, \u201cIs that right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the characters, I don\u2019t know who hurt the author in the past, but he does not like people <em>at all<\/em>. Each character is an irritating caricature only meant to show how superior the \u201cintellectual\u201d main character was. This turned me off almost from the very beginning, as it seemed incredibly pretentious. Furthermore, the main character was hardly consistent. If he\u2019s described as agonizing over big decisions, but immediately wants to marry some girl who he met a few hours ago, then this character does not make any sense. And don\u2019t even get me started on the profanity. Swearing can add a little spice to a narrative, but this author seemed to have dumped the whole salt shaker on his story.<\/p>\n<p>A novella with nothing new or interesting to say, I give <em>Plane<\/em> 1.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plane Year: 2017 Author: William Hrdina Length: 148 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY*** Two things help to create a good story: little to no suspension of disbelief, and realistic characters. The more a writer has to justify what they\u2019re doing in the world they\u2019ve written, either through scientific or historical inaccuracies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,54],"tags":[349,55,1052,97,339,308,1048,1046,8,1051,1049,1050,1047],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-5-stars","category-book","tag-349","tag-book","tag-caricatures","tag-giveaway","tag-goodreads","tag-goodreads-giveaway","tag-novella","tag-plane","tag-review","tag-stereotypes","tag-suspension-of-disbelief","tag-unrealistic-characters","tag-william-hrdina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}