{"id":10290,"date":"2006-09-26T10:51:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/09\/26\/10290.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:17","slug":"book-report-the-very-persisten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/09\/26\/book-report-the-very-persisten\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I didn&#8217;t enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/childrens\/botm.asp?id=1265\">The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip<\/a>. I did. It was perfectly good. In places, it was absolutely knock-your-socks-off good. I just didn&#8217;t think the ending was knock-your-socks-off good, and ultimately I finished the book feeling let-down.\n<p>Oddly enough, though, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/people\/archive\/saundersgeorge.jsp\">an interview<\/a> with George Saunders (who wrote it), Gavin J. Grant implies that he thinks the book is <I>slipstream<\/I>, in a manner which makes it clear that he defines the term as <I>stuff that makes it difficult for a bookseller to decide what shelf to put it on<\/I>. As a bookseller, or at least as a representative of booksellers, I understand that perspective. Actually, since I think of <I>genre<\/I> as dealing mainly with the question of selling books, and secondarily with the question of shelving books, and only tertiarily with the question of reading or writing, I think that definition is probably the best, particularly as if used by writers and editors it is instructively self-mocking. The problem, though, is that <I>infernokrush<\/I>, although of course the same thing, is not well-served by a definition that makes it such a passive object of a booksellers decision.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t enjoy The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. I did. It was perfectly good. In places, it was absolutely knock-your-socks-off good. I just didn\u2019t think the ending was knock-your-socks-off good, and ultimately I finished the book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17821,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions\/17821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}