{"id":10304,"date":"2006-10-10T16:53:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T20:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/10\/10304.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:18","slug":"book-report-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/10\/book-report-decider\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Decider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780425199381,00.html\">Decider<\/a>, aka <I>the architect one<\/I>, has to go into my list of fave Dick Francis books. I&#8217;m not altogether sure why. Sure, it&#8217;s got all the Dick Francis stuff: protagonist with an odd or obscure specialty, foolish and\/or vicious rich people, protagonist severely injured quite early in the book but nonetheless perseveres, a beautiful woman, a persuasive threat not against the protagonist but against those near to him, and eventual triumph. And horses, although there are very few actual horses or races in this one. But then, they all have all that stuff. Why does this one work a bit better than some of the others?\n<p>For the record, I also quite like <I>Hot Money<\/I> (the rich gold-trader dad one), <I>The Edge<\/I> (the transcontinental mystery race train one), <I>Banker<\/I> (the banker one), <I>Proof<\/I> (the wine-seller one), <I>To The Hilt<\/I> (the painter\/piper one), and <I>Bolt<\/I> (the second Kit Fielding one, with the dead horses). Most of the others are fine, too, and there are only a few (the weatherman one, and the Russian one, maybe one or two I&#8217;ve forgotten) that I wouldn&#8217;t bother to read again.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Decider, aka the architect one, has to go into my list of fave Dick Francis books. I\u2019m not altogether sure why. Sure, it\u2019s got all the Dick Francis stuff: protagonist with an odd or obscure specialty, foolish and\/or&#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-10304","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\/10304","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=10304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17835,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions\/17835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}