{"id":15042,"date":"2015-03-12T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2015\/03\/12\/15042.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:10:13","slug":"book-report-rising-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2015\/03\/12\/book-report-rising-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Rising Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/12\/terry-pratchett-author-of-the-discworld-series-dies-aged-66\">Terry Pratchett has died<\/a>.\n<p>I have been meaning to write about reading <a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/book\/234009\/raising-steam\/\">Rising Steam<\/a>, which I read in January and February, surprisingly slowly. It&#8217;s a good bathtub book&#8212;the Discworld books generally are&#8212;but I didn&#8217;t get <i>into<\/i> it, somehow. I didn&#8217;t laugh much, and I found the satire on fundamentalist terrorism a little too serious for my taste. Or my mood, maybe. I mean, considering it was the fortieth Discworld book, it was an impressive achievement to punch out a book that wasn&#8217;t filler, wasn&#8217;t dreadful, wasn&#8217;t overly nostalgic, wasn&#8217;t <i>bad<\/i> and bothered having a plot and at least a few new jokes. But it wasn&#8217;t one of my favorites.\n<p>What were my favorites? Oh, to pick three, <cite>Guards! Guards!<\/cite>, maybe <cite> Soul Music<\/cite>, definitely <cite>Monstrous Regiment<\/cite>. I also really liked the <cite>Bromeliad<\/cite> books, and I enjoy <cite>Good Omens<\/cite> quite a bit.\n<p>I also feel as if&#8212;I never met the man, I have read few interviews with him, I never went to see him at a panel or anything, but he seemed like a Good Person, and one that had a positive influence on the specfic community. I feel like I have lost something with his death, not so much the books-not-written, but the man himself.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger has a sad.<\/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-15042","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\/15042","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=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16518,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions\/16518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}