{"id":12337,"date":"2009-08-27T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/08\/27\/12337.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:45","slug":"book-report-starclimber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/08\/27\/book-report-starclimber\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Starclimber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had loved the first two books in Kenneth Oppel&#8217;s zeppelin series, so I was very eager to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060850579\/Starclimber\/index.aspx\">Starclimber<\/a>. And I loved it, let&#8217;s begin with that. Lots of fun. But I have a fair number of complaints.\n<p>My recollection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/02\/21\/2667.html\">Airborn<\/a> is unabashedly positive. My recollection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/05\/05\/10206.html\">Skybreaker<\/a> is that it wasn&#8217;t quite as good as the first one, but had sky squid, so that&#8217;s all right. I suspect that my recollection of this third book will primarily be that the main concept, a cable to outer space held at the top by a primitive rocket in geosynchronous orbit, was utterly preposterous and failed to make sense at any of the plot points.\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say I didn&#8217;t have fun. I had a lot of fun. If you haven&#8217;t got around to reading any of these yet, and then you read the first one and like it, I would certainly recommend continuing with the rest. After all, if preposterous pseudo-science were going to inhibit your enjoyment, you wouldn&#8217;t have made it through the first one. It&#8217;s just&#8230; there&#8217;s preposterous and delightful, and there&#8217;s preposterous and doesn&#8217;t-work-for-me-somehow.\n<p>Still. Victorian spaceships. With gears.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger has a lot of fun.<\/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-12337","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\/12337","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=12337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18860,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions\/18860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}