{"id":2140,"date":"2016-01-19T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T06:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2016-01-19T22:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T06:59:30","slug":"review-flights-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Review: Flights of No Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the aspects of electronic books that still befuddles me at times is the inability to judge a book by its heft, production quality and other intangibles.\u00a0 I get the feeling that if I had a physical copy of Steven Ruffin&#8217;s <em>Flights of No Return<\/em>, I would have expected less from it.\u00a0 It has the definite feel of an overview intended for a student or newbie to an area, in this case the area being aviation crashes.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve understood its intended audience, the book itself is quite good.\u00a0 Each short chapter tells the story of an aviation disaster, tragedy or mystery in sufficient detail to give the reader a flavor for the events.\u00a0 In many cases, the description is compelling enough to whet the appetite to learn more.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the perfect balance in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Ruffin selects events from throughout aviation&#8217;s history, from 1800&#8217;s ballooning crashes to the 9\/11 2001 horrors and beyond.\u00a0 In all cases he gives a clear, concise overview of what we know, including recent updates.\u00a0 It shows that we as a society continue to pick at these scabs.<\/p>\n<p>Overall a diverting short book.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the aspects of electronic books that still befuddles me at times is the inability to judge a book by its heft, production quality and other intangibles.\u00a0 I get the feeling that if I had a physical copy of Steven Ruffin&#8217;s Flights of No Return, I would have expected less from it.\u00a0 It has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}