{"id":12803,"date":"2010-02-17T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/17\/12803.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:05","slug":"book-report-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/17\/book-report-leviathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Leviathan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. You know the whole judging-a-book-by-its-cover thing I keep hocking about? Well, I&#8217;m afraid I judged <a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Leviathan\/Scott-Westerfeld\/9781416971733\">Leviathan<\/a> by a map. I can&#8217;t remember how I wound up at Scott Westerfeld&#8217;s blog, but the note about <a href=\"http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/leviathan-art-the-grand-map\/\">The Grand Map<\/a> piqued my interest. And, you know, steampunk, WWI, all that. Looked totally possible.\n<p>On the other hand, I have <I>for no reason whatsoever<\/i> taken a dislike to Scott Westerfeld&#8217;s stuff. No reason. Well, actually, I think it&#8217;s that I hate the covers of those Uglies books. Although it&#8217;s equally likely that I hate the covers because I took an unreasonable dislike to his stuff. So there&#8217;s that.\n<P>And when I say unreasonable, what I mean is that I had never read any of it. Not a scrap. Not a page. Not a blurb. Not a summary. Nuffin. Nor had I been nearby some annoying fanpersons of his stuff, which has been reason enough to dislike other series of YA specfic\/horror. Not naming any names, but they know who they are, and they don&#8217;t sparkle. Is my reaction to his stuff a contagion from there being Too Much Vampire Stuff right now, even though it&#8217;s not really vampire stuff? Could be. Seems fair.\n<p>As for this book, which is very much not vampire stuff, it was&#8230; eh. Not enough between the covers, if you know what I mean. Some nice stuff, but didn&#8217;t live up to the map.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger notes that if you give a book that title, you are just asking reviewers to describe the thing as nasty, brutish and short.<\/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-12803","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\/12803","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=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19011,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions\/19011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}