{"id":13455,"date":"2010-11-28T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/28\/13455.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:07","slug":"book-report-un-lun-dun-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/28\/book-report-un-lun-dun-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Un Lun Dun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had postponed re-reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/11\/21\/10742.html\">Un Lun Dun<\/a> for a while, largely because I dreaded the possible letdown if I discovered that the book doesn&#8217;t lend itself to multiple readings. After all, part of the fun&#8212;a <I>lot<\/i> of the fun, although there is a lot of fun to be part of&#8212;was from the surprise when China Mi&eacute; ville really let go and slammed the conventions. This time through, I knew I would be expecting the Unchosen one to Choose herself, and to reject the Quest in favor of just getting the job done. And, of course, when the Good Guys appear to be perhaps not entirely Good Guys, re-reading means you know whether they are Bad Guys or Good Guys or if it&#8217;s More Complicated than that. This is in addition to the other dread, that somehow YHB liked the book too much the first time through. That I would read the thing, shaking my head at all the clunkers, the annoying bits, and the interminably dull passages I must have missed on the first time, and have lost a favorite book.\n<p>Fortunately for YHB, no such thing happened. I enjoyed the second read very much indeed, and <I>Un Lun Dun<\/i> is still a favorite. I can&#8217;t say it was <I>better<\/i> the second time, but it was very good the second time. And I am confirmed in my initial judgment: it&#8217;s a hell of a book.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is relieved, and pleased, and unable to thing of a third thing.<\/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-13455","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\/13455","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=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19230,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions\/19230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}