{"id":13104,"date":"2010-06-16T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/06\/16\/13104.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:55:59","slug":"book-report-the-king-must-die-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/06\/16\/book-report-the-king-must-die-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The King Must Die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/03\/08\/10160.html\">The King Must Die<\/a> again recently. I have always thought of it as one of my favorites, certainly the top or second-to-top of the Mary Renault books. I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s true, anymore. I do enjoy it a lot, but it&#8217;s possible that the annoyances have been growing on me faster than the pleasures. In particular, I find that the last bit, the abandonment of Ariadne, doesn&#8217;t work for me at all. I vaguely remember that I never liked that part, and tended to skim it, but I read it quite carefully this time, and I don&#8217;t like it. So that&#8217;s a problem.\n<p>It&#8217;s also possible that I am just more open to romance as a Source of Reader Pleasure these middle-aged days. I find that I like The Last of the Wine<\/a> more (even though I don&#8217;t like the ending of that one, either) and of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/04\/20\/12036.html\">The Mask of Apollo<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t read <i>The Praise Singer<\/i> for a while, and I can&#8217;t remember whether it&#8217;s a love story or not. Hm.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger can&#8217;t go home again, at least not without painting the sails.<\/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-13104","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\/13104","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=13104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19116,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions\/19116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}