{"id":12524,"date":"2009-11-10T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/10\/12524.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:50","slug":"book-report-komarr-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/10\/book-report-komarr-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Komarr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How many times has Your Humble Blogger reread <i>Komarr<\/i> in the last five years? Oh, a bunch. <A href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/12\/04\/11684.html\">Here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/06\/10338.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/02\/26\/2680.html\">here<\/a>. And here, last month as ever there was.\n<p>This is not a problem, as I don&#8217;t mind rereading comfortable books again and again. This isn&#8217;t the sort of book that is very different each time I read it, it&#8217;s just a nice, pleasant way to spend a couple of hours. It&#8217;s not altogether different, as an experience, from watching <I>Iron Chef<\/i> or playing Tetris. There&#8217;s no sin in it, there&#8217;s some good in it, it&#8217;s not unhealthy or harmful, it&#8217;s not improving me at all.\n<p>No, I reread books like <I>Komarr<\/i> once a year or so, just to pass the proverbial, and I like that I have a few dozen books that fit that task so well. The problem, such as it is, comes from the blogging. I have nothing new to say about <I>Komarr<\/i>, or about the experience of reading it. I see that one recent re-read was a trifle irritating; that didn&#8217;t happen this time. I didn&#8217;t discover any plot holes or thematic inconsistencies; I didn&#8217;t discover any new insights or connections to my own life or thinking. I just read it for a while, and then it was over, and I put it back on the shelf.\n<P>Well, no, I mean, I put it on the night table, and it sat there for a while, and then I probably moved it to the dresser for a week or two, and <I>then<\/i> I put it back on the shelf. Nothing new there, either.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which the fourth time is charming, too.<\/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-12524","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\/12524","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=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18918,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}