{"id":11867,"date":"2009-02-08T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/02\/08\/11867.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:50:21","slug":"book-report-the-sisters-grimm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/02\/08\/book-report-the-sisters-grimm\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Sisters Grimm, Fairy-Tale Detectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every now and then I discover that I am wildly ignorant even of the small corners of culture that I think I&#8217;m familiar with. Evidently the Sisters Grimm series of books is extremely popular, up to a million books now with another million due to be published this summer, and probably a movie or two as well. When I picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hnabooks.com\/product\/show\/3177?imprint\">The Fairy-Tale Detectives<\/a>, I thought it was newish, one of those attempts at a popular series that never quite made it. Wrong, I was.\n<p>Which is too bad, because this book stinks on ice.\n<p>So, one of my Sources of Reader Irritation is when Our Hero is too damned stupid to breathe. There&#8217;s the plot, and there&#8217;s Our Hero, racing off in the wrong direction, and the reader, who I should point out is me, saying <I>that&#8217;s just dumb!<\/i> It&#8217;s one thing if Our Hero is tricked along with me, or if Our Hero is smart but still unable to figure out what&#8217;s going on because he&#8217;s not quite smart enough. But in a story like this, where the clues are practically jumping up and down saying \"Take me! Take me! I&#8217;m yours!\" the utter inability of Our Hero to get a clue makes me grumpy.\n<p>This is a bit of a problem for children&#8217;s stories in general, since children are often not sophisticated enough to suspect that the butler did it, or that a grumpy character may turn out to be a Good Guy. On the other hand, children ain&#8217;t <I>stupid<\/i>.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is disappointed, but there are other books in the world.<\/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-11867","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\/11867","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=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18678,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions\/18678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}