{"id":12724,"date":"2010-01-21T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/21\/12724.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:02","slug":"book-report-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/21\/book-report-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger is only moderately fond of Terry Pratchett books. I think of them as having a high floor but a low ceiling; I am unlikely to have a bad time with one of them, and I am unlikely to remember much about them, including which bits were in which books, half an hour after putting one aside. I had never, in fact, actually purchased one of his books, or even considered purchasing one of his books, what with there always being half-a-dozen of them on the shelf at the public library, if I&#8217;ve been unsuccessful at finding something to read.\n<p>Then came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780061433016\/Nation\/index.aspx\">Nation<\/a>, which was much-reviewed and much-awarded and much-discussed as being Something Different, a Terry Pratchett book that is wholly Pratchettesque but also <I>more<\/i>, somehow. A Terry Pratchett book with thump. I bought it, in trade paperback, and took it on the airplane, eagerly anticipating the reading-and-flying experience.\n<p>Meh. I enjoyed reading it, and three weeks later I don&#8217;t remember much about the book at all.\n<P>Now, having said that in an offensively dismissive way, it is a wonderful thing that a fellow can have written a hundred thousand books and I am willing to just pick one up and read it. Who else is like that? P.G. Wodehouse. Anyone else? And there are plenty of P.G. Wodehouse books that I have enjoyed reading and don&#8217;t remember much about.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is now up to December 30th, and may in fact call it a proverbial.<\/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-12724","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\/12724","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=12724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}