{"id":10606,"date":"2007-09-03T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/09\/03\/10606.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:57","slug":"book-report-predators-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/09\/03\/book-report-predators-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Predator&#8217;s Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of months ago (when I was young) I wrote that I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=10546\">Mortal Engines<\/a> very put-down-able, in the sense that I kept putting it down and not getting to it for a day or three. I enjoyed it, but not with any urgency.\n<P>It perhaps shouldn&#8217;t be altogether surprising that when I spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060721930\/Predators_Gold\/index.aspx\">Predator&#8217;s Gold<\/a> at the library and took it home, I let it sit on the shelf for a bit. For a longish bit. Long enough for my Best Reader to read it, enjoy it and recommend it. Long enough to have to renew it. Twice.\n<P>When at last I finally, almost grudgingly commenced to read the thing, though, I zipped through it in about a day and a half. Just goes to show.\n<p>For those who enjoyed <I>Mortal Engines<\/I>, by the way, I&#8217;ll warn that unlike that fine book, <I>Predator&#8217;s Gold<\/I> doesn&#8217;t have a satisfying finish. It&#8217;s not a cliffhanger, quite, but there are three separate plotlines that Mr. Reeves clearly started in this book to continue in the third one. It&#8217;s a fair thing to do in a series, that is, finish one plot line but leave others going, but I prefer the Bujold strategy, myself.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago (when I was young) I wrote that I found Mortal Engines very put-down-able, in the sense that I kept putting it down and not getting to it for a day or three. I enjoyed it,&#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-10606","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\/10606","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=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16214,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions\/16214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}