{"id":12040,"date":"2009-04-21T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/04\/21\/12040.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:50:27","slug":"book-report-amulet-the-stoneke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/04\/21\/book-report-amulet-the-stoneke\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Amulet, The Stonekeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So. I picked up Amulet<\/a>, book one: The Stonekeeper<\/a> at the library, mostly because I thought my Perfect Non-Reader might be willing to read a graphic novel for a change. No luck there. I read it, of course, as I thought it looked pretty good just from a quick flip-through off the shelf. And, you know, it was OK, but not great. I have to admit I was surprised to see it was an Eisner Nominee<\/a>. I mean, not that I actually know anything about the field, or had read any of the other eligible works.\n

I had the thing that I often have with comic books, where I flip through the pages very quickly, slurping up the plot, and possibly ooh<\/i>ing at a nice image or two, and then feeling somehow dissatisfied when I finish the thing in five minutes. Sometimes, if the graphics are particularly dense, I’ll spend some time looking at them. But a lot of stuff is just wasted on me, particularly the stuff that I think of as Japanese style (note: may not actually have anything to do with Japan), where dialogue is scanty.\n

I also felt that this was an odd place to cut the book—there’s a nicely written introduction, a little woogly-woogly entry into the World of the Story, and then, well, things keep happening, one after another, without any particular arc. Or that’s how it felt to me. The last image was cool, as an image, but didn’t seem to come at a meaningful spot in the story. But then, I might have felt differently if I had spent more time going through the thing.\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger gives short shrift to a graphic novel. Long shrift would be, like, the book would have to walk to New York in bare feet, chanting the te deum<\/i>, right?<\/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-12040","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\/12040","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=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18744,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/18744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}